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Archive: July 2012 (7 Posts)

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Training the Digital Curators of Tomorrow

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Emily Reynolds, a 2012 Junior Fellow. Earlier this month, the Board on Research Data and Information held the Symposium on Digital Curation in the Era of Big Data: Career Opportunities and Workforce Requirements. Bringing together digital curation educators and practitioners, the event featured discussions about the skills required …

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Record Crowd Participates in DigitalPreservation 2012

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

Apps that want to be good. Messiness and meaning. Mature–and immature–organizations. The Library of Congress provided a forum for innovative insights during its annual digital preservation meeting, held during July 24-25.  DigitalPreservation 2012 drew record attendance of 230 from across the country and around the world. The Library’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program …

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Digital Disaster Planning: Get the Picture Before Losing the Picture

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. Frequency of occurring? Rare. Impact of occurring? Huge. I’m talking about digital disasters. Stewards of digital content, like stewards of analog content, must plan for catastrophe in advance in order to minimize loss and recover quickly. True, digital disasters may occur infrequently. But at …

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Digital Preservation Best Practices Exchange Meeting Set for December 4-6

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

This year’s Best Practices Exchange will take place on December 4-6 in Annapolis, MD.  The Maryland State Archives has graciously agreed to host the meeting. BPE meetings focus on the management of digital information in state government, and bring together practitioners to discuss real-world experiences, including tools, services and lessons learned.  The meetings have taken …

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From AIP to Zettabyte: Comparing Digital Preservation Glossaries

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Emily Reynolds, a 2012 Junior Fellow. As we mentioned in our introductory post last month, the OSI Junior Fellows are working on a project involving a draft digital preservation policy framework. One component of our work is revising a glossary that accompanies the framework. We’ve spent the last …

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Digital Preservation: Fighting the Battle for Fleeting Attention

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

Advertisers and economists talk about a concept known as the value proposition. It refers to what makes a product or service valuable to others. In the context of how preserving institutions communicate, the value proposition bluntly asks:  why should anyone pay attention to what an organization has to say?  When we talk about digital preservation, …

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Data-Intensive Librarians for Data-Intensive Research

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. A packed house heard Tony Hey and Clifford Lynch present on The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Research, Digital Scholarship and Implications for Libraries at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference. Jim Gray coined The Fourth Paradigm in 2007 to reflect a movement toward data-intensive science. Adapting …