RESOURCE: National Digital Stewardship Alliance Glossary
Checksum? Bagger? Ingest? The National Digital Stewardship Alliance has released a glossary of digital stewardship terms. NDSA members have been working on a “Levels of Digital Preservation” activity...
View ArticlePOST: Visualizations and Digital Collections
In a previous post on dh+lib, Jefferson Bailey outlined some of the ways in which the digital humanities could enhance access and discovery of cultural heritage materials. Now, in “Visualizations and...
View ArticlePOST: The CODATA Mission: Preserving Scientific Data for the Future
At Spellbound Blog, Jeanne Kramer-Smith has posted on a session from The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation conference, sponsored by UNESCO in cooperation with the...
View ArticleRESOURCE: Digital Preservation Tool Grid
Preserving (Digital) Objects With Restricted Resources (POWRR) has created a useful grid that tracks 24 different features of over 45 digital preservation tools, ranging from the very basic (e.g....
View ArticleJOB: Research Associate, Digital Preservation, Kings College
From the description: “The post holder will work as a Research Associate on the EU FP7 project PERICLES (“Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of...
View ArticlePOSTS: Museums, Digital Preservation Policies, and Copyright
Two recent posts address two important issues in museums: digital preservation policies and copyright. In a piece in The Signal, “Towards a Digital Preservation Policy For Museums,” Madeline Sheldon...
View ArticlePOST: Respect Des Bits: Archival Theory Encounters Digital Objects and Media
In his latest post for The Signal, Trevor Owens explores digital objects through the lens of archival theory, such as respect des fonds, or the archival imperative to maintain original order. He...
View ArticleRESOURCE: Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation: An NDSA Report
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards (NDSA) and Practices Working Group have released “Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation: An NDSA Report,” a survey of 85 institutions with a...
View ArticleRESOURCE: Digital Preservation 2014 Conference Wrap-Up
Mat Kelly (Old Dominion University) has written a thorough wrap-up of the Digital Preservation 2014 conference, held July 22-23 in Washington, D.C. Kelly’s post includes links to recordings of 25 of...
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