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Archive: June 2013 (4 Posts)

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I Made Metadata Fun: A True Story

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Madeline Sheldon, Junior Fellow with NDIIPP. Most of you who follow this blog have an interest in digital preservation and will already be familiar with the following information. This particular post is more for the individuals who are just beginning to understand the implications of their digital footprint …

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Announcing the Inaugural Class of National Digital Stewardship Residents

Posted by: Susan Manus

The National Digital Stewardship Residency Program has reached a major milestone – the ten residents for the inaugural class have now been chosen!  It was a very competitive selection process, and these ten new residents have proven themselves highly qualified to take on current and future challenges of digital stewardship work.  They will arrive in …

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Why Can’t You Just Build it and Leave it Alone?

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Marie Gallagher, a computer scientist in the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).  (This post is based on “Improving Software Sustainability: Lessons Learned from Profiles in Science“, an interactive paper (pdf) at the Society for Imaging Science and Technology’s …