Information & Archival Services
Winthrop plans and helps manage and staff archives for clients seeking to preserve, control and provide access to your assets and information.
Winthrop Group’s Information & Archival Services Division assists clients who
- want to establish and/or maintain archives and efficiently manage non-current records and archival assets (regardless of format or value)
- wish to collect, preserve, and utilize historically significant documentation for research, business, informational or evidential value, educational, communications, scholarly, personal, or family purposes
- need to codify functional requirements and technical specifications for digitization projects, select Digital Asset Management systems, and implement records management procedures and Information Governance policies.
- must move and expand the archive, undertake a data migration, prepare records retention schedules, or create and implement a company-wide disaster recovery and emergency preparedness plan.
Winthrop's Archival Services include:
Conceptualization
- Needs assessment
- Planning and budgeting
- Policy development
- Space planning
Fundamentals
- Records surveys
- Inventories and content appraisal
- Processing and cataloging archival records
- Collection development
- Metadata schemas, authority files, taxonomies and controlled vocabularies
- Program implementation
- Software evaluation
- Finding aids and databases
- Reference and access planning and service
- Preservation, conservation, conversion, emulation and migration
- Audio-visual and media digitization options
- Oral histories
- Data maintenance, Quality Control and Quality Assurance
- Data verification and validation
- Records retention schedules
- Archival supplies and logistical support
Program Enhancement and Support
- Program staffing, training and personnel searches
- Disaster recovery and emergency preparedness
- Online and interactive applications
- Special projects, exhibits, publications and audio-visual productions
