The following is a guest post from Andrea Goethals, Digital Preservation and Repository Services Manager at the Harvard University Library, with contributions from Stephen Paul Davis, Director of Columbia University Libraries Digital Program Division and Kate Zwaard, Supervisory IT Specialist, Repository Development, Library of Congress. Andrea and Kate co-chair the NDSA Standards and Practices Working Group.
When you hear about something that is new to you – where is the first place you usually go to learn more about it? If you’re like most of us, you usually find yourself reading a Wikipedia article. In fact, Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website