Quotables: 9 Ways Going Digital Can Increase Your Business’s Value (Home Business Mag)
Farica Chang’s post in Home Business Mag outlines the benefits of digitizing a business. Through proper digital preservation techniques, your scanned documents can contain metadata tagging, optical character recognition (OCR), and other tools to make your data easily searchable by anyone in your company. Quick search and reliable digital provenance are a boon to all […]
Quotables: 3 Ways to Improve Intelligent Capture with Human Touch (AIIM)
Mark Anderson’s guest blog at AIIM (The Association for Intelligent Information Management) addresses the limits of IIM and how to improve results. Human factors can never be replaced by technology because of the intelligence and problem-solving care experts possess. Whether the end result is for a paperless office or a collection of documents, the metadata, […]
Quotables: Digital Archives (Grit Daily)
Principal Farica Chang shared the importance of digitizing your “docs and pics” with Grit Daily. While you might not have an original draft of the Declaration of Independence lying around, your collection—whether it contains historical newspapers or your grandparents’ letters from the war—has value to you and to the future. Click here to read the […]
Quotables: Where Will Your Legacy Be When You’re Gone (The Good Men Project)
Check out Mark Anderson’s recent guest contribution to The Good Men Project, laying out tips for individuals, families, and organizations to safely preserve their historical documents. Taking the right steps to preserve your important family and community collections now will prevent damage from unexpected disasters or the inevitability of time. Click here to read the […]
Quotables: Q&A: Mark Anderson on how organizations can preserve their historical documents
Co-founder of Anderson Archival Mark Anderson recently interviewed with Karen Dybis of Corp! Magazine. All organizations, whether they are families, nonprofit groups, or businesses, have documents that are important in telling their story. These historically valuable papers should be preserved—but what are the best ways to do it?… “Every business has a story to tell,” […]
Quotables: Digitizing the Stars: Harvard University’s Glass Plate Collection
Check out Anderson Archival’s recent contribution to bloggERS! The Blog of SAA’s Electronic Records Section. Digital Archivist Shana Scott presents a case study from Harvard University’s preservation of night sky photographs. Scott tells the story of astronomer Dr. Henry Draper, his wife Anna, and the women of Harvard’s Observatory who were dedicated to the preservation […]
