Archival Fast Lane

Guides and how-to(s) for all your archival needs.

How to read this guide?

This guide is meant to serve both as a quick reference on specific archival topics and as essential reading for anyone interested in physical or digital archiving. The topics are a mix of guides, checklists and reference material.

Almost all the topics can be read in any order. Prerequisites and references are provided as and when needed. The recommended reading order is to first understand all the topics listed under Basic Concepts and then proceed with specific guides as needed.

Note that a few process related checklists might need proper adaptation before they can be incorporated into your workflow. Think of these as suggestions rather than inflexible rules.

Contributing to the guide

Archival depends heavily on community effort, so does this guide! Please reach out to us or send us pull requests to make this guide more usable and comprehensible.

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.