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Archivist Leslie Johnston on how NARA deals with the ever-changing nature of digital records.
By Kate Tasker ——— Put 40 digital archivists, programmers, technologists, curators, scholars, and managers in a room together for three days, give them unlimited cups of tea and coffee, and get rea…
Like so many other elements of our digital culture, software tends to disappear rapidly, new versions supplanting old ones, even as unused and obsolete...
The veraPDF project, definitive, open source PDF/A validation.
Data inventory tool.
Presentation in a session about archiving and digital preservation at the 16th DIA Conference on European Electronic Data Management and eHealth Topics. The presentation looks at some of the practical tools and approaches that can be used to ensure file-based digital content remains safe, secure, accessible and readable over multi-decade timescales.
Archivists are borrowing and adapting techniques used in criminal investigations to access data and files created in now-obsolete systems.
Here are some of my favorite digital tools that may prove useful for core aspects of the oral history process. I will be adding to this on a continuous basis, adding new tools and categories of tools periodically, so stay tuned. Many of these tools are tools we are actively using at the Louie B. N
WordPress.com is the best place for your personal blog or business site.
Over the weekend, Mike, Dallas and I gave a workshop entitled "Introduction to Free and/or Open Source Tools for Digital Preservation" as p...
Post contributed by Matthew Farrell, Digital Records Archivist. At the University Archives, we work hard to dispel the stereotype that we are merely reactive documenters of Duke’s history, that we wait to receive evidence of activity reflected in the records of the offices, organizations, and bodies that donate or transfer materials to us. We pursue student … Continue reading Archiving Social Media about Duke Activism →
This is the text of a presentation I made yesterday at a wonderful Columbia University symposium called Insuetude (still ongoing), which is bringing media archaeologists together with stones-and-bones archaeologists. I started my talk with a bit of film, as a way of time-traveling to the middle...
This Issue Brief has been adapted from Deanna Marcum’s keynote address at the CRL Collections Forum held in Chicago on April 14, 2016. For as long as
Grey literature - produced by government departments, academic institutions, private companies - are hidden away from the public.
Caring for our collective memory. What Is Preservation? As audio and video technologies have changed, and as old formats age and disintegrate, we are at risk of losing significant media that documents the art, culture and history of our diverse communities. BAVC Media works to preserve and digitize these cultural