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Digital Preservation News, July 25-29, 2011

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The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. We will post future updates as they become available every week.  The listing below is from last week.

Here is your weekly round-up of digital preservation articles:

Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records of the Devra Kleiman Papers http://blog.photography.si.edu/2011/07/28/preserving-the-electronic-records-of-the-devra-kleiman-papers/

Blog post by a current Smithsonian Intern about her work making preservation copies of the electronic materials in Devra Kleiman Papers. These records are of particular interest because they span thirty years and preserve a temporal slice of the physical and electronic media types, application formats, and creation software commonly in use between 1980 and 2009.

Questions from the April 7, 2011 New Roles for Research Libraries: Digital Curation and Preservation Webcast (PDF) – http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/nrnt_dc_webcast_qanda.pdf

Due to time constraints, many questions from the April 2011 Webcast were left unanswered.  The panel, which included Martha Anderson (LC/NDIIPP), Jeremy York (HathiTrust), Oya Rieger (Cornell), and Trisha Cruse (California Digital Library), developed written responses to the unanswered questions.

Authentication & Digital Law: Report from AALLhttp://govinfo.sla.org/2011/07/28/authentication-digital-law-report-from-aall/

Amy Taylor shares her notes from the session, “Authentication: the Evolution Continues,” presented at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) annual meeting in Philadelphia this month. The session focused on the recently enacted Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act (UELMA).

Digital Maps are Giving Scholars the Historical Lay of the Landhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/geographic-information-systems-help-scholars-see-history.htm

New York Times article about spacial humanities.  Historians, literary theorists, archaeologists and others are using Geographic Information Systems — software that displays and analyzes information related to a physical location — to re-examine real and fictional historic places.

Classic Gaming Expo Founders Launch Video Game History Museumhttp://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/75064/viewpressrelease75064.php

The Videogame History Museum is a non-profit charity dedicated to preserving, archiving, and documenting the history of the videogame industry.

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