INF2403H 0.5 Credits

Special Topics in Information: Digital Archives Workflows

Course Description

INF2403H — Special Topics in Information: Digital Archives Workflows

This course will introduce students to the methods, tools, and workflows that archivists are deploying to process digital archival materials for preservation and access. Through a combination of lectures, demonstrations, readings, activities for testing and exploration, and a cumulative set of assignments using example records, students will gain hands-on experience with a suite of open source software tools to acquire, appraise, arrange, describe, make accessible, store, and preserve digital archival materials.

Note: 2nd year MI students only

Pre-requisite courses: must have taken all of: INF1003H, INF1330H, INF1331H, and INF2184H