Translations:Omgaan met digitale dragers in je archief/4/en

• Gather together all your carriers such as floppy disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, tapes and USB sticks, and give them all a unique number. Also collect together all information about the hardware, operating system and software that was used to create or edit the files. Compile all this information in a table, also copying across any writing that appears on the carriers.
• Store the carriers in a suitable place. If this isn’t with your physical archive and collections, take photo of the carriers where they are stored and add these photos to your physical archive and collections. Make sure you also provide the necessary references.
• Add a summary of the collected information to your archive overview.
• Draw up a priority list for transferring the files, based on four criteria:
  • the importance of your digital carriers and how frequently they are used;
  • the vulnerability of the carriers;
  • the extent to which the information is also available in analogue form;
  • the extent to which the digital version adds value compared to the analogue version.