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TRACKS is designed like a suitcase that contains the tools artists and arts organisations need for the preservation of their own archive and/or collection(s).

Vision ⟶

The starting point for taking care of your archives is a vision statement from your organisation on the subject. What are your goals? Why are they important? How do you want to reach those goals?

Ordering and describing ⟶

How should I best create (a sequential) order in my archive? How should I note this down? And how detailed should it be?

Discarding and keeping ⟶

What can I safely discard of delete? How do I decide whether a document is valuable enough to retain it? Are there documents that I'm obligated to retain?

Physical storage ⟶

All the necessary information to make your paper archive survive the test of time.

Digital storage ⟶

How do I best preserve digital files? How do I make sure they remain readable in the future?

Digitisation ⟶

Everything about digitising texts, photos, videos,...

Rights ⟶

Archival materials may be subject to rights such as copyright, portrait rights and GDPR. But what types of rights are there? And what do you need consider?

Providing visibility ⟶

How do I highlight my archive? And how does the general public find their way to my archive?

In the spotlight

How to digitise photographic materials yourself

Digitising photographic material is a labour-intensive and costly task that you ideally only want to do once. The publication Digitising photographic materials by Flemish heritage societies (in Dutch...

Speech recognition, speech-to-text (STT) or automated speech recognition (ASR) is a technology that makes it possible to convert spoken text in videos or audio into text, such as the automatic subti...

If you’re thinking of leaving a social media platform or want to regularly make an archive copy of your social media account, there are two ways you can do this: Using the download functions of the s...

Manage your archive ©VAi An archive management vision is a short text in which you outline why you care for your archive and what goals you want to achieve with it. You might engage in archive manage...

This is a guide for noScribe. NoScribe is a free open-source tool developed by Kai Dröge for transcribing or subtitling audio and video material. The tool combines various open-source technologies in...

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