What have we got in our digital archive?
Do other digital archivists find that the work of a digital archivist rarely involves doing hands on stuff with digital archives? When you have to think about establishing your infrastructure, writing policies and plans and attending meetings it leaves little time for activities at the coal face. This makes it all the more satisfying when we do actually get the opportunity to work with our digital holdings. In the past I've called for more open sharing of profiles of digital archive collections but I am aware that I had not yet done this for the contents of our born digital collections here at the Borthwick Institute for Archives. So here I try to redress that gap. I ran DROID (v 6.1.5, signature file v 88, container signature 20160927) over the deposited files in our digital archive and have spent a couple of days crunching the results. Note that this just covers the original files as they have been given to us. It does not include administrative files that I have added, or disse