Our digital archive represents an important part of our overall strategy (see: what is osa?) and can be divided into three broad categories: Thematic Digital Collections, Digital Repositories, and Digital Archival Laboratory.
Thematic Digital Collections
These are collections formed around particular topics in recent history or coherent sets of records. Most are based on OSA physical holdings, and these are often integrated with related digital collections from other institutions.
Digital Repositories
In 2005 we established an institutional digital repository for the Soros Foundations Network available at a dedicated website called the Soros Network Archival Portal (SNAP). Based on this experience, we are currently in the process of developing the OSA Digital Repository (OSADR) to support proper curation of our digital content and to provide broader, enhanced, and more flexible access to our collections. Whereas many of our thematic collections and digital archival laboratory projects present our collections side by side with those from other institutions, OSADR is a system to help us manage and provide access to our own collections. As such, it is intended to link together rather than to replace our current tools and resources.
Digital Archival Laboratory
We are also experimenting with alternative approaches to archiving and acquiring digital content. The following projects all share a decentralized structure and in some sense challenge the status quo in archival descriptive practice.
Using Digital Content
All digital content available through in our digital archive collections and projects can be used for research and education. Our digital resources, though not a comprehensive representation of OSA physical collections, do present some of our most highly used, interesting, and controversial material alongside that of other institutions. Not only is the content presented interesting in its own right, but the collection information displayed with each item can serve to guide researchers to physical collections relevant to their research. Citations to items in our digital collections should be made to the original physical copy (see: OSA citation rules) with the notable exception of the Parallel Archive (PA), which provides a permanent URL for citing uploaded documents. OSA gladly accepts requests for reproduction of our digital content and adheres to legal conditions defined at the collection level when considering these requests.
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