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Archive: January 2012 (3 Posts)

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Personal Archiving – Year End Boot Camp

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. With the large size and amount of my personal digital archives, my archiving problem may be a bit extreme, but I think a description of my archiving system may be helpful to many people who want to save and …

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The World Digital Library Backstory

Posted by: Susan Manus

Note:  In the interest of long term access, we will occasionally post material to The Signal that was previously published only on our website.  The following is an updated version of an article from our “Meeting the Challenge” series. The World Digital Library sounds improbable at first – many nations providing open access to highlights …

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New Videos From Archipel Steal the Show

Posted by: Susan Manus

The digital preservation-related video show, that is.  The set of newly released videos from the Belgian project “Archipel” are the latest digital preservation videos to hit the scene.  The Archipel project is a recent collaboration by organizations in Belgium, to study digitization and digital preservation of cultural heritage materials. Even though these videos are basically …