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The Eagles have sued a concert footage archivist, accusing the man of violating their copyright after screening unlicensed footage in October.
Erik Moore Introduction In 2007, OCLC published the report Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the Flow to bring to the forefront a much needed conversation about digitization of archival collec…
Why weren't they taking disk images?!
Close Reading, Distant Reading: Should Archival Appraisal Adjust? | The Signal: Digital Preservation
From time to time, co-chairs of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Arts and Humanities Content Working Group will bring you guest posts addressing the future of research and development for digital cultural heritage as a follow-up to a dynamic forum held at the 2014 Digital Preservation Conference.   The following is a guest post from Meg […]
Strategy for Digitizing Archival Materials for Public Access, 2015-2024 December 2014 Introduction See also our PDF Version of this document Adjudicated Comments on Strategy The National Archives and
Keynote talk presented at the Archives & Records Association (UK) annual meeting, Newcastle, 27 August 2014
On the SNAC project.
And now for something not so very different The subtitle of this blog talks about four archivists’ battles with legacy description. And it’s true that what we have in common is that we&…
They provide incorrect metadata. WHY DO THEY DO THIS. There is such a thing as TOO MUCH respect des fonds.
(By Peter Hirtle) By now most archivists and many librarians will have heard something about the controversy concerning the use of material found in Special Collections at the University of Arkansas. Researchers from the Washington Free Beacon (WFB) web site...
Ever since the National Archives and Record Administration launched the Open Government Plan in 2010, it has increasingly been uploading content to Wikipedia to digitize and gain a wider reach for its holdings. But all this time, uploading its digitized holdings to the Wikimedia Commons was a side project. Now, as mentioned in the 2014 Open Government Plan published earlier this month, the project is a core part of the NARA.
The idea was tantalizing, a firsthand account of the Troubles from those on the front lines, republicans and loyalists alike. Through confidential interviews, the Boston College oral history project would safeguard stories that might otherwise go to the grave, shedding light on a dark time.