Various bash scripts that automate file-checking and metadata processes for CUNY digital-video preservation.

I’ve done a lot of writing in the past few years, all on a Mac, and mostly in Sublime Text. I publish this site using Jekyll + GitHub Pages, so it’s easy for...

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We here at the Bentley Historical Library have been using GitHub for quite some time now. (Really, it's only been since May 19th of this yea...

Management of electronic resources depends primarily on how library workflow is arranged. Different elements such as acquisitions processes depend on an efficient workflow setup. Chapter 3 of   Library Technology Reports    (vol. 50, no. 3) “Electronic Resource Management Systems: A Workflow Approach” covers how to do a workflow analysis to discover issues with current library resource management, using methods such as the DLF report steps and the TERMS outline. Once a workflow analysis is conducted the library can use the results to determine their selection criteria for adding an ERMS.

Overview of the Bentley Historical Library's ingest and processing procedures for digital archives.  Provides information on the development of the Bentley's p…

Bentley Historical Library Curation Team The Bentley Historical Library's Mellon-funded ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration project (2014-2016) united three Open Source platforms for more efficient creation and reuse of metadata and to streamline the ingest of digital archives.  We continue to explore innovative archival practice and emerging technologies to curate our collections—read all about it here!

Preservation of born-digital video is one of the more challenging types when it comes to digital files. As we noted in August, the Archives worked with Smithsonian Channel programs on DVD this summer. This project helped us develop workflows we are now adopting with some born-digital video. Video on authored DVD is complicated. If you have ever viewed the files on a computer, usually you will see an AUDIO_TS folder and a VIDEO_TS folder. The VIDEO_TS folder contains VOB, IFO, and BUP files and the AUDIO_TS folder is empty.

The Smithsonian Channel produces award-winning television programming that engages viewers much in the same way as the Smithsonian's museums and galleries do throughout the United States with their visitors. Just as the Smithsonian is working to digitize its collections for greater access and preservation, the Smithsonian Channel and the Smithsonian Institution Archives are also undertaking various efforts to ensure the digital preservation of these television programs. The reformatting workflow for this project has been dynamic, and it should be.

Amid the pressure and enthusiasm for researchers to share data, a rapidly growing number of tools and services have emerged. What do we know about the quality of these data? Why does quality matter? And who should be responsible for data quality? We believe an essential measure of data quality is the ability to engage in informed reuse, which requires that data are independently understandable. In practice, this means that data must undergo quality review, a process whereby data and associated files are assessed and required actions are taken to ensure files are independently understandable for informed reuse. This paper explains what we mean by data quality review, what measures can be applied to it, and how it is practiced in three domain-specific archives. We explore a selection of other data repositories in the research data ecosystem, as well as the roles of researchers, academic libraries, and scholarly journals in regard to their application of data quality measures in practice. We end with thoughts about the need to commit to data quality and who might be able to take on those tasks.

Why weren't they taking disk images?!

Investing in Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future  sponsored by the 4C project  and the Digital Preser...

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Special guest and metadata guru, David Riecks, joins us to provide 5 steps to managing your workflow with metadata.