Resources – Our Place

We have created a series of short “how-to” guides to help venues identify, organise and preserve their artefacts and materials. The results of our questionnaire helped us to identify priority areas for these resources. We have initially chosen to focus on the most common types of materials help by venues, including photographs, ephemera, social media and websites.

How-to guides

Getting started with your digital archive

How to digitise physical photos and ephemera using a smartphone

How to archive your websites and social media

How to digitise text-based documents with a smartphone scanner (coming soon)

How to add descriptive metadata to your digital images

How to choose the right file formats for your files

How to organise your digital archive

How to store your digital archive

How to maintain your digital archive (coming soon)

If you have used one of our guides, we would love to hear your feedback. Please get in touch with any comments, suggestions, or requests for future guides.

Other recommended resources

We will be adding more “how-to” guides soon. In the meantime, explore recommended resources on a range of topics and challenges below. Please get in touch if you’d like to suggest an addition to this section.

Digital Preservation Coalition, Digital Preservation Handbook

Digital Preservation Coalition, Novice to Know-How training

How-to guides

Other recommended resources

General resources

Audio-visual materials

Maintaining your archive (digital preservation)