Colleagues
Thank you to Sam for the question and Tamsin for an answer. I echo Charlotte's interest in more responses.
Earlier this year, a group of colleagues at The National Archives did some work to explore how we might present digital records and enable their use more effectively. You can see some of our thinking on TNA's blog: https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/modelling-digital-archival-data/ and https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/digital-archiving-seven-pillars-metadata/.
The need to provide access to some digital content in a searchroom environment only and not online elsewhere is something that we were well aware of. Currently, however, all of our born-digital records that are legally open and available in our reading rooms are also available to view online.
Whilst we have not yet had to find a practical solution for making some born-digital material available onsite only, we know that this will be necessary in the future. There will inevitably be open public records that we will not be able to publish online for legal or other reasons – chiefly to do with protecting the rights of people other than the archivist and the researcher. We also anticipate that this will affect some metadata, as well as the records themselves.
Incidentally, I will be co-presenting a session at the ARA Conference on Thursday 30 August that will touch on issues around gradated access and circumstances where making information available online is not an unalloyed good. I hope to see some of you there.
Best
Andrew
Andrew Janes
Senior Archivist – Future Catalogues
Catalogue and Taxonomy
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