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Archive: August 2012 (2 Posts)

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Who Do You Want to Be Today?

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

I lead a group that develops software for the management, preservation and delivery of digital collections.  In some organizations, digital preservation is part of the physical preservation unit.  In some organizations, software development is part of the systems office.  Or software development might be part of a central IT unit. I work with colleagues who …

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A Day Camp for Digital Preservation

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

On July 26, 2012, the Library of Congress hosted CURATEcamp Processing: Processing Data/Processing Collections. The idea to hold a CurateCamp had been percolating for some time, but the event really came about through a fortuitously timed conversation with our colleague Meg Phillips at the National Archives and Records Administration, and the interest of our colleague …