Digital Photographs as Electronic Records: How are Archives Handling Born-Digital Photographs?

Born-digital photographs, which are photographs captured originally on digital cameras, pose new considerations for archivists. Sharing qualities of both electronic records and analog photographs, these objects bring together the issues inherent in both. While there are best practice guidelines available for how to preserve these electronic documents, there is little information on what archivists are actually doing to ingest born-digital photographs. Using qualitative interviews with archivists located in the Triangle area of North Carolina, this study has investigated what archivists are doing to address born-digital photographs