I will discuss the challenges of handling living resources and relate them to already existing strategies and their vulnerabilities. I will present an approach for managing living resources by considering the responsibilities of different stakeholders – researchers, funding institutions and data centers/libraries – and argue for their orchestration.

We describes workflows, complexities and challenges in a digital pilot project on the Archive of German Speaking Jews in Israel, concentrating specifically on two complementing classification workflows: image classification of the digitized scans as a preliminary step for document analysis, and LLM assisted parsing and classification of folder level catalog entries.