Recording the Past

September 9, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Recording the Past

At the recent Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, the educational session addressed military archives best practice in the 21st century. The focus on the relevance and value of military archives to multidisciplinary research topics led into issues of processing massive amounts of digital records from the war in Iraq using innovative management and techniques. CMS Wire brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Thinking Beyond the Box: How Military Archivists are Meeting 21st Century Challenges.” There are compelling arguments for more focused records discussions in our military, some of which includes shrinking financial support.

Considering the vast amount of data, both digital and non-digital, available to historians, the benefits to going digital are beyond access and findability. Putting this cultural treasure of information online can help preserve it for the long term.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.