Resources

• Time Tracking Report: https://hdl.handle.net/11299/269849
• SAA blog summarizing report and presentation given at Best Practices Exchange: https://saaers.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/time-tracking-analysis-for-digital-records-processing-at-the-university-of-minnesota-archives-and-special-collections/
• “Time Estimation for Processing Born Digital Collections,” Hanging Together blogpost: https://hangingtogether.org/time-estimation-for-processing-born-digital-collections/
• Slides—Download .pptx

Presenters

• Lara Friedman-Shedlov, Digital Records Archivist, University of Minnesota Libraries
• Carol Kussmann, Digital Preservation Analyst, University of Minnesota Libraries

Description

Since 2014, the University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections has tracked time spent ingesting and processing born-digital archival materials. After refining data collection in 2020, Archives and Special Collections staff compiled over four years of workflow data, revealing new insights into task duration, storage metrics, and resource allocation.

In this webinar, Lara Friedman-Shedlov and Carol Kussmann share observations they were (and were not) able to make based on this data, and the ways they’ve been able to use it to improve the digital processing workflow and advocate for additional resources. They also discuss the challenges of gathering and analyzing this type of data.

View this webinar to learn how data about born-digital archival workflows can provide insights that may support decision-making and resource allocation.

All affiliates of OCLC Research Library Partnership organizations are invited to participate in live sessions. The recordings are available to all.