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Guidance

You will receive recommendations from us as to which documents are worthy of preservation. We will be happy to advise you on how to create a structure and which conservation issues need to be considered in connection with digital records.

Archiving recommendations

For potential donors we have developed instructions for the orderly handling of documents:

  • «Records Management - The Orderly Handling of Documents» - guidance for institutions or private individuals.
  • «Systematic filing of private digital data» - instructions for private individuals
  • «Filing of e-mails»

 

If you offer audiovisual material to the archive, we depend on you to provide us with information about the content and context of creation (in particular: persons/occasion, place, date). The relationship to the holdings, the uniqueness and the quality provide clues as to the worthiness of the material for preservation. Basically, the more metadata there is, the more worthy the photo / film / sound document etc) is of being handed down.

Depending on your needs, we conduct the consultation by telephone / e-mail or on site.

Contract

As a rule, we take over a collection as a donation. Prior to delivery, the ownership, scope, accessibility for researchers / users) and financial participation are regulated in the contract.

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