The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative.
UNT receives more than $800,000 dollars in funding to investigate needs in archiving research data
http://untsystem.unt.edu/news/2011/August/11-08-09-arch-res-data.htm
The first grant of $624,663 from IMLS is for a three-year project to create four graduate-level courses in digital curation and data management. The second IMLS grant of $226,786 will fund a two-year investigation of the new roles, knowledge and skills that will be required of library and information science professionals to successfully manage research data cited in articles in scholarly journals — not just the publications.
When Data Disappears
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/when-data-disappears.html
In this New York Times article, Kari Kraus from the University of Maryland explains some of the challenges of digital preservation. She cites that with data, preservation needs to start before an object is past its use, ideally at an object’s creation.
Learning New Things– The 2011 Digital Preservation Management Workshop
http://dartmouthpreservation.blogspot.com/2011/08/learning-new-things-2011-digital.html
Helen Bailey of Dartmouth Preservation Services describes her experience at the ICPSR Digital Preservation Management workshop.
Keeping it Online: Sustainable Preservation Practices and the Rhizome ArtBase
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/aug/5/keeping-it-online/
This paper is the synthesis of years of research conducted by Rhizome and other leaders of digital preservation, in and outside of art institutions.
Library Lab/The Podcast 005: Stock in Paper
http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/blog/2011/08/10/library-labthe-podcast-005-stock-in-paper/
Tim O’Reilly recently sat down with Harvard Library Innovation Lab’s David Weinberger to talk about using the web to curate and archive knowledge, and what innovations publishers have to take on in order to survive.
Thanks for reading!