Practical Examples
Archive Ugo Dehaes classified and repacked.
In the context of a work placement at Het Firmament (now CEMPER) for the Postgraduate course in Archiving: Heritage Management and Modern Document Management at the VUB in Brussels, a study was carr...
Read moreCaring for scenery models in De Munt/ La Monnaie
In 2010 the De Munt archive included around 50 scenery models and is still growing today. As a result, the De Munt archive unit developed a clear procedure for creating (with the aim of proper prese...
Read moreCleaning up an archive with Tristero
This practical example illustrates how a clean-up day was organised for the physical archive at the Brussels theatre company Tristero, in order to make it more accessible and more user-friendly, and ...
Read moreCapturing data from 3.5-inch diskettes for House for Electronics Arts (HeK)
In May 2018, HeK (House for Electronic Arts)[1] asked PACKED vzw to capture data from its 3.5-inch diskettes. This data was the digital art works Raoul A. Pictor cherche son style (1993)[2] by Hervé...
Read moreCapturing data from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen’s outdated carriers
In the summer of 2017, PACKED vzw attempted to retrieve data from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen’s collection of outdated carriers: CD-Rs, CD-RWs, Zip drives, SyQuests and magneto-optical drives. Read here...
Read moreArchive preservation at Annie Gentils Gallery
In this pilot project a summary is given of the process Annie Gentils went through to create an inventory of her archive to make it usable and accessible. She would like to digitise photos and docume...
Read moreStudent works on KVS archive
Author: Jens Bertels (AMVB) Summary The Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS) participated... nam deel aan het archiefdoorlichtingsproject voor podiumkunstenorganisaties van PACKED en Het Firmament. He...
Read moreDescribing a reference library with LibraryThing
PACKED tested the online platform LibraryThing to describe its collection – mainly consisting of books, magazines and DVDs. It wanted a good overview to improve the collection’s internal usability. L...
Read moreCharting the iMAL archive
Creating an overview of your archive is a simple way to quickly become familiar with its content and determine your priorities. iMAL has an extensive but disorganised archive stored across various t...
Read moreDealing with rights in the TRANSIT collection
The fifteenth edition of the TRANSIT Festival for New Music took place in Leuven in 2014. There are numerous scores, recordings, programmes, etc. that document this festival, but many of the scores h...
Read moreRegistration and identification of video and audio tapes for digitisation at Damaged Goods
The dance company Damaged Goods wishes to have its audiovisual archive digitised to preserve it for the future, and for reference purposes. In an initial phase, the material was inventoried according...
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