Notes on intrinsic value and significance...

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The PARBICA notes on selecting records of significance are pretty awesome here. I don't know if they'll merge well with the intrinsic value deck but it is worth considering including some of their notes here:

• GUIDELINE 24: Assessing Significant Records in Archival Holdings

Significance refers to the values and meanings that your records and collections have for
people, communities or your nation. These values can include those that have historic,
social, spiritual, artistic, scientific, political or cultural meaning. Expressing these values adds
meaning to a collection or record and tells the story as to why they are significant.
Significance assessment is a vital tool in collection management as it:

• allows good decision-making about conservation and management, including
  disaster preparedness
• helps focus limited resources on the most significant records and collections
• is the basis for research and curatorial functions
• increases the accessibility of collections by sharing knowledge
• fosters collaboration across collections.

Assessing significance of your records and collections allows you to direct resources to the
most significant items, and manage their conservation in a way that protects them into the
future.

While this guideline is developed in the context of disaster planning, there are other
applications of significance assessment. Knowing which collection items are the most
significant can help you promote your collections, encourage further research and
partnerships, assist in collection management and enable advocacy in relation to national,
regional and international significance registers such as the UNESCO Memory of the World

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Further, there are some cool examples of recordings with intrinsic value from Richard Wright here at the BBC:

• https://www.slideshare.net/Richard19461/wright-fonoteca-workshop23jun14

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This paper is broad-ranging, and I suspect, on first blush, in future, will be ethically problematic (or shoot itself in the foot by asking too much), but points to some clues for intrinsic value in digital:

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4438/JBA-10-p157-Reis.pdf