http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/authors/christopher-hilton/ Recent content in Christopher Hilton on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/65/hilton-et-al/ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/65/hilton-et-al/ Born-digital archival material represents the single most important challenge to the archival profession for a generation or more. It requires us to rethink issues and assumptions around acquisition, preservation, cataloguing and reader access. Not least is the problem of getting donors to transfer their born-digital material to us. We have encountered four common scenarios that seem to act as blocks to the transfer of such material. We also need to change the way we engage with donors.