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Family Media Archivist Series — Part 1
Content Capture and Conversion
This is the first in a series of articles where I have divided the role of the Family Media Archivist into four parts:
- Content Capture and Conversion
- Management
- Sharing
- Legacy
Together these four parts all contribute to the Family Archivists' two key responsibilities: keeping the archive safe and making it available to the rest of the family.
What do I mean by a Family Media Archivist?
Are you the person in your family with a huge photo library where half of those images were taken by other family members? Do you have boxes full of prints, albums or slides that family members have dropped off saying “You might find these interesting”. Ditto boxes of VHS tapes or DVDs with hand-written labels like “Vacation 1993”.
Then congratulations! You have found yourself in the role of “Family Media Archivist”.
Maybe you are responsible for most of the content or your family has decided that you will be the most responsible person with it. Living up to this role can be daunting. It is a role I have found myself in — my father having passed the baton on to me a few years back. Curating…