V: Day-to-Day Responsibilities

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1. The physical materials: their maintenance, physical organization and related data
   1. Description of materials (4x 5 transparencies, 8 x 10 transparencies, slides, b/w negative, digital files)
   2. How to organize all the materials (by accession number, by artist name, by date? Separate photography of collection objects from installations/events images, etc.
   3. Housing vis a vis conservation (acid free sleeves, acid free labels, care of dupes, etc.)
   4. maintaining data on the source images (metadata for databases, etc. date of image, original source of scan, photographer credit, etc.)
   5. Creating policy on and maintaining the longevity and viability of data through periodic copying, data checking, and migration to new media and technology when necessary