Resources

Browse the links below for a variety of resources that our community has found useful.

Advancing Foundation Archives Seattle 2023 session recordings

• Introductory Remarks
• There's No Business Like Information Business
• Building the Case for Information Management in Your Foundation
• Developing Information Management Programs Through Internal Partnerships
• The More you Know: When Information Becomes Knowledge
• Closing Remarks

Repositories of foundation and nonprofit history

• Rockefeller Archive Center
• Ruth Lilly Special Collections & Archives at IUPUI
• Issue Lab by Candid

Find an archivist or records manager

• Association of Records Managers & Administrators
• Society of American Archivists

Foundation archiving and records management

• Archives of U.S. Foundations: An Endangered Species (2012)
• Archiving Forward and Backward: Two Perspectives on Capturing the Impact of Limited-Life Foundations (2020)
• Establishing Foundation Archives: A Reader Guide and First Steps (1991)

Building the Case for Information Management in Your Foundation

• Retention Schedule Template

Digital preservation organizations

• National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). A US-based consortium of organizations committed to long-term preservation of digital information. Hosted by the Digital Library Federation. Annual conference in November is called DigiPres.
• Digital Preservation Coalition. UK-based digital preservation community that promotes good practice and standards.

Email archiving

• The Future of Email Archives: A Report from the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives. August 2018. Published by CLIR.
• Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community. News about active grant projects focused on email archiving. Hosted by the University of Illinois.
• Requirements for Archiving Email using PDF [draft report]. May 2020. Drafted by the Task Force on Technical Approaches to Email Archives, University of Illinois
• A specification for using PDF to package and represent email. EA-PDF Working Group, University of Illinois, 2021
• ePADD open-source software. 2010-2021. Developed by Stanford University libraries.

Data sets management

• Information Sharing Approach from the Gates Foundation
• re3data, a registry of research data repositories
• Zendo, hosted by CERN to share and preserve research data
• Dataverse, an open-source web application developed by Harvard to share and preserve research data
• Final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing. October 2020. National Institutes of Health
• NSF Data Management Plan Requirements. June 2020. National Science Foundation.

Oral History

• Oral History Association
• Oral History in the Digital Age
• University of California, Berkeley Oral History Center
• University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History