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Change instructions to collection start and add callout
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# Accessioning
* Contact Digital Archives when digital media are in an accessioned collection.

# Collection Assignment
* Contact Digital Archives when you are assigned a collection with digital media.
# Collection Start
* Contact Digital Archives when you start a collection with digital media.
* Discuss your time frame for processing the collection.
* Find out whether media has been transferred and how that will affect your processing schedule.
* Discuss whether you would like to appraise/survey hard drive directories before transfer.
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Archivists processing electronic records without using FTK or ePADD will receive an external hard drive or thumb drive with copies of files to be arranged.
Archivists processing electronic records without using FTK or ePADD will receive an external hard drive or thumb drive with copies of files to be arranged. In some cases files might
be available on remote storage.

## Using an External Hard Drive

* Attach the external hard drive or thumb drive to your workstation.

<!--*Will need to add new language around SPEC updates*-->
* Open SPEC and navigate to the object inventory of the associated collection for information on the digital carriers being processed.

* Note you may also need to update fields in individual SPEC object records at various points during processing.

## Arranging and Describing Files from a Workstation

The goal of the arrangement and description phase is to approximate the
process in which an archivist works with a physical collection. By using
their workstation the archivist will be able to appraise a copy of records with the same
structure as contained on their original media, create a set of intellectual components
(arrangement), summarize the logical extents (size) and date ranges of
the components, and enter them into ArchivesSpace.
* Navigate to the SPEC object inventory of the acquisition to view digital carrier information.
* You may need to update fields in SPEC object records at various points during processing.

### Navigating the Drive

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* Navigate to the data folder in the objects folder to view the files to be arranged.
<!--* Note manifest.txt files contain a directory listing. -->

### Processing
{: .important }
`data` folders are not collection folders. Move the contents within `data` folders only.

## Surveying and Appraisal

The goal of the survey and appraisal phase is to approximate the process in which an archivist works with a physical collection. By using their workstation the archivist will be able to appraise a copy of records with the same structure as contained on their original media.

* Appraise the files.
* Ascertain the arrangement of the files.
* Note file naming conventions, how the files relate to each other, and possible duplicates.
* Note file naming conventions, how the files relate to each other, and possible duplicates.


## Arranging and Describing Files from a Workstation

The goal of the arrangement and description phase is to approximate the
process in which an archivist works with a physical collection. By using
their workstation the archivist will be able to appraise a copy of records with the same
structure as contained on their original media, create a set of intellectual components
(arrangement), summarize the logical extents (size) and date ranges of
the components, and enter them into ArchivesSpace.

{: .warning }
Do not rename collection files.
Avoid creating an ER for a single file.

### Arrangement

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