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Cliff Lynch invited me to give one of UC Berkeley iSchool's "Information Access Seminars" entitled The Half-Empty Archive . It was based on ...

The University of Maryland Libraries have been managing digital content for about a decade without an official digital preservation policy. The Libraries’ 2013 Strategic Plan called for the development of preservation plans, including "bit-preservation, digital object preservation, and metadata management pertaining to preservation of digital objects and their aggregations." A task force examined policies at other institutions and evaluated needs and strategic directions. The resulting high-level policy and appendix based on the Trusted Repository Audit Checklist (TRAC) will direct all future planning, policies, and implementation. This case study will describe the process and planned steps towards implementation.

Some useful pushback on "significant properties" and all the other accounting.

UC Davis DataLab

Zenodo: archive for stuff in GitHub.

Unlike other dead media, the vinyl LP refuses to fade away, as the story of the vinyl revival assures us. Starting (at my first notice) in Slate and ping-ponging across the pond via Twitter (oh wait, or was that 2007?), the tale has ended up back stateside again on the editorial page of the New York Times. There the story was anew, this time paired with a similar short blurb comparing the use of ebooks and physical books (spoiler alert!: ebooks think they're all that, but they're not!).

Disentangles the polysemy of "archives." Good as a context for the first week.

Would Susan Sontag have wanted her life and computer files analyzed like this? Would anyone?

The beginning is a very fine place to start indeed for the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative Born Digital Video subgroup of the Audio-Visual Working Group. As mentioned in a previous blog post, the FADGI Born Digital Video subgroup is taking a close look at the range of decisions to be made throughout the lifecycle […]

New consortium(?) for academic digital preservation(?). Keep an eye on it.

GIGANTIC list of who's-using-what for digital preservation in libraries, archives, museums.

May as well begin 2014 where we left off: complaining about the attitude of scientific publishers regarding reproducible computational research. I had a “Twitter blurt”. That’s wh…

I attended the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference semi-annual meeting in November and attended the session “Refining Archival Data.” The presenters, Jefferson Bailey, Maureen Callahan, and A…