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A Look Inside J. Paul Getty’s Newly Digitized Diaries
They’re here! The diaries of J. Paul Getty are now part of the collection of the Getty’s Institutional Archives, thanks in large part to the late Jim Wood, former Trust President and CEO, who placed...
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J. Paul Getty, The Early Years
What forces shaped J. Paul Getty into the man portrayed in his diaries? The Getty’s Institutional Archives recently acquired a collection that illuminates Getty’s formative years. In addition to many...
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Meet FRED!
This powerful but unassuming-looking machine sleuths and preserves digital files In honor of American Archives Month 2014, we would like to introduce FRED (Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device), a...
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6 Questions for the Getty’s Institutional Archivist
In honor of International Archives Day, we query the keeper of the Getty’s own (vast) records about itself The Getty’s Institutional Archives powerhouse. From left: Jennifer Thompson, Sara Seltzer,...
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Peek Behind the Scenes at the Getty Research Institute for #AskAnArchivist Day
Three info pros from the Getty Research Institute are ready to field your questions for #AskAnArchivist Day Nancy (and Kit and Sarah) are ready for your questions October is a time for candy, fuzzy...
View ArticleArchives Help Tell the Story of J. Paul Getty’s Life and Legacy
How does an institution tell the story of its founder? This was the challenge a team of curators, designers, and content wranglers like myself faced as we prepared the new Getty Museum installation J....
View ArticleChat with Getty Archivists on October 5 for #AskAnArchivist Day
The Getty Research Institute is home to millions of pages of archival material about art and the humanities, from Renaissance notebooks to contemporary art posters. A large part of the archives is...
View ArticleSaving Electronic Records from Rot and Decay
Here at the Getty’s Institutional Archives, our job is to preserve the history of the entire Getty. This includes archiving the significant electronic records staff have produced over the years. These...
View ArticleTraining a New Generation of Archivists through ArchivesSpace
Nancy Enneking, the Getty’s head of institutional archives, is contributing to the ArchivesSpace community, which develops and supports the leading open-source database system for archival material. As...
View ArticleArchive Adventures
To those who need to wade through the digital and physical maze of archives, they can seem either entirely self-explanatory or hopelessly confusing. When I say maze, I’m not kidding: archives are...
View ArticleDigital Preservation in Practice
At the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles we have been using Rosetta, the digital preservation solution from Ex Libris, since 2012. Although Rosetta is a vendor solution, and so in some ways...
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