Overview
Convened by the Shared Descriptive Practices Working Group, the Born-Digital Content Description Task Force was active from September 2021 through October 2023. Its charge was to create guidelines for describing born-digital archival material in general and in ArchivesSpace specifically, and deliver recommendations for arrangement of hybrid collections.
The task force produced three documents. The guidelines for Describing Born-Digital Materials in ArchivesSpace give field-by-field instructions for collection-level description, and correspond as much as possible with DACS and the Processing Levels. The recommendations for Arranging Hybrid Collections give options for hybrid arrangements and list the primary considerations when choosing a hybrid arrangement approach. The recommendations for using ArchivesSpace Archival Objects for Born-Digital Materials make suggestions for representing arrangement choices in ArchivesSpace.