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O*NET detailed work activityCollect archival data
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AI can get you up to speed fast and suggest where to look, but you need to confirm findings against real sources, records or people.
Part of Gather information from physical or electronic sources, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (1 AI-ready, 9 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Prepare archival records, such as document descriptions, to allow easy access to information.
- Gather historical data from sources such as archives, court records, diaries, news files, and photographs, as well as from books, pamphlets, and periodicals.
- Track the flow of work forms, including in-house data flow or electronic forms transfer.
- Locate and obtain existing geographic information databases.
- Conduct internet-based and library research.
- Read and study reports in order to compile information and data for geological and geophysical prospecting.
- Collect detailed information on individuals for use in biographies.
- Consult site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps to identify archeological sites.