Archive: January 2013 (3 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Trevor Owens; (Year) 2013; (Month) January

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When is Open Source Software the Right Choice for Cultural Heritage Organizations? An Interview with Peter Murray

January 18, 2013

I am excited to continue the NDSA infrastructure working group’s ongoing exploration of the role that open source software can and is playing in supporting long term access to digital cultural heritage with this interview with Peter Murray about FOSS4lib, “the site that helps libraries decide if and which open source software is right for …

Posted in: NDSA, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure

Public Participation and Stewardship of Science: Arfon Smith of Adler Planetarium and the Zooniverse

January 7, 2013

Posted by: Trevor Owens

I’m excited to be able to chat with Arfon Smith, Director of Citizen Science at The Adler Planetarium & technical lead on the Zooniverse projects. Adler Planetarium is the newest member of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (and the first Planetarium to join!). Adler is somewhat unique in that it both collects, preserves and exhibits …

Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure

There and Back Again: Scoping a Web Archiving Project Around the Hobbit

January 2, 2013

Posted by: Trevor Owens

The following is a guest post from Sarah Weissman, a second year student in the MLS program at University of Maryland’s iSchool. This past semester as part of the course Information Access in the Humanities, my classmates and I studied current trends in humanities scholarship. Under the guidance of Kari Kraus we learned about the …

Posted in: Digital Content

Refined by: (Author) Trevor Owens; (Year) 2013; (Month) January