Baldock – Question 3

One of the most challenging questions for archivists working with born-digital materials is how to reconcile an archive’s born-digital form with existing and entrenched methods of archival arrangement and representation, which in most cases were conceived with paper records in mind. In my view, archivists must develop new and creative strategies to represent the contents of born-digital archives to researchers who wish to use them and need a guide to their contents. These strategies may not always fit easily with traditional archival values and practices.