Add Provenance Notes

Add Provenance Notes in Adobe Acrobat — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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Add descriptive notes to a digital item so colleagues understand its provenance at a glance.

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Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Add provenance notes to the digital file for [accession=2024-045] so colleagues see its history:…
Add provenance notes to the digital file for [accession=2024-045] so colleagues see its history: open the PDF, attach a one-paragraph comment describing donor, chain of custody, and prior collection, then save and notify the [list=team list].

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Make the provenance annotation clear for volunteer cataloguers: add a visible comment on the first…
Make the provenance annotation clear for volunteer cataloguers: add a visible comment on the first page stating donor name, donation date, previous owner, and any gaps in provenance; attach supporting scans (receipts or correspondence); and include a short revision log so reviewers know when the note was added.

Who does this, and with what

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ArchivistAdobe Acrobat ProMicrosoft SharePointalso: Annotate Digital Itemalso: Expose Key Descriptive Metadata

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