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Archive: June 2014 (14 Posts)

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Preview of Digital Preservation 2014: Panel Members from “Community Approaches to Digital Stewardship”

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Digital Preservation 2014 is hosting such a rich variety of presentations that we at the Signal want to preview some of them for you. Today, as part of our Insights Interview series, we present a Q&A with Bradley Daigle, director of Digital Curation Services and digital strategist for Special Collections at the University of Virginia …

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Register for CURATEcamp: Digital Culture, July 24th

Posted by: Trevor Owens

Alongside this year’s Digital Preservation 2014 meeting, I am excited to announce that we will also be playing host to a CURATEcamp unconference focused on exploring the collecting, preserving and providing access to records of digital culture. For those unfamiliar with unconferences, the key idea is that the participants define the agenda and that there …

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Exhibiting .gifs: An Interview with curator Jason Eppink

Posted by: Trevor Owens

Who would have thought when CompuServe introduced the Graphics Interchange Format in 1987 that the world was witnessing the birth of a new medium of expression? At Digital Preservation 2012 keynote speaker Anil Dash suggested that the humble animated GIF was likely “the most watched form of video?” Animated GIFs are increasingly being appreciated as …