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The Wellcome Library[1] acknowledges that born digital material will form part of its research collections. The question is, how do we implement this? This paper talks to the experiences of the Wellcome Library as it develops and implements its strategy to acquire and manage born digital material. It draws on our experiences of working with ’real’ material, and looks at the pragmatic ways in which workflows and practices have been developed and the archivists successfully engaged in working with this new medium.
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Going digital, experiences at the Wellcome Library
The Wellcome Library[1] acknowledges that born digital material will form part of its research collections. The question is, how do we implement this? This paper talks to the experiences of the Wellcome Library as it develops and implements its strategy to acquire and manage born digital material. It draws on our experiences of working with ’real’ material, and looks at the pragmatic ways in which workflows and practices have been developed and the archivists successfully engaged in working with this new medium.