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Archive: 2013 (232 Posts)

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Persistent Paleontology: How Do Stones and Bones Relate to Digital Preservation?

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

Amber Case coined the term persistent paleontologyin reference to electronic systems that continuously layer on new information. “The e-mail inbox is a rapidly expanding site of excavation which one must continually query,” she writes. “The newness of everything buries one’s ability to reach it without digging.” I like this association because it lets us look …

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Teaching Viewshare for Academic Work: An Interview with Moya Bailey

Posted by: Abbey Potter

This is a guest post from Camille Salas, an intern with the Library of Congress. She interviews Moya Bailey from Emory University.   Moya Bailey is a graduate fellow in the Digital Scholarship Commons at Emory University where she explores critical race, feminist, and disability studies. Her current work focuses on constructs of health and normativity …

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Geopreservation Information for All Communities

Posted by: Erin Engle

You’re a graduate student in a geography education program learning about the concepts underlying a geographic information system, including creating, analyzing and editing geospatial data sets. Part of your coursework also includes learning about the preservation of GIS data. As an academic librarian, your position oversees the gathering and management of geospatial data as well …

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

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 …

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Doug Boyd and the Power of Digital Oral History in the 21st Century

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Digital preservation and Internet access are not only transforming the way we record and convey history, they are also restoring the importance of humankind’s oldest means of storytelling: the oral tradition. One of the most influential leaders in this modern oral-history movement is Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History …

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The “Spherical Mercator” of Time: Incorporating History in Digital Maps

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

In 1982 Interstate I-66 opened, providing a direct high-speed connection (except at rush hour) between downtown Washington D.C. and its western suburbs in Virginia. I was barely out of high school at the time so its opening didn’t really register with me, but now I live mere blocks away from the highway so it’s an …