Tools & Tutorials

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Digital Archiving Tools

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Online & Free

Online PDF to DOCX conversion

Free Online Audio Transcription mp3 to text

Free Digital Storage

Data-Mine your Area’s Website History, gather images, pdfs, and content from your Area’s past: https://web.archive.org/

Convert Audio files to text: https://converter.app/audio-to-text/result.php


Archive Humor – Recruit, Educate & Activate Your Archive Committee


History of Cocaine Anonymous


How-To-Build-A-Cocaine-Anonymous-Archive


Tutorials on Archival Procedures

PDF Download the C.A. World Services “Pass It On” Archiving Guidelines & Procedures


What would the world look like without archives?


What I love about archives?


The Importance of Digital Archives

Southern Ontario C.A. Area Digital Archive

Great Canadian C.A. Convention Digital Archive


Arrangement and description of small archival collections


Data Management


 

Introduction to Arranging Archives


Records Management 101


Archival Processing


Handling Objects in a Archival or Museum Setting


General Paper Preservation Tips


The Contents of a Museum Labelling and Marking Kit: A Collections Care How To Guide

Labelling and marking paper objects


Labelling and marking textiles


Conducting an Oral Historical Interview


Preservation for Community Archives


Textile Storage


Marking museum objects using the starch paste method


Online Museum Training – Creating a Small Exhibition


In depth presentation on Archive Description