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Posted by: Abbey Potter
For someone who thinks about web archiving almost every day it’s sometimes hard to explain to people outside the digital library community why archiving web sites is worth doing. “They archive themselves,” some say. “Why would you want to save what’s on the Internet?” they wonder. Instead of launching into explanations about cultural heritage, dynamic …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Abbey Potter
Gaining the knowledge, skills and experience required to manage digital assets and provide access to them over time can sometimes feel like trying to hit a moving target. Almost all heritage organizations now have a responsibility to steward some kind of digital content be it e-books or journals, digitized materials, electronic records, digital photographs, data …
Posted in: Education and Training, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Abbey Potter
In previous posts Trevor Owens and I showcased changes that are coming to the Viewshare platform. You can test out these changes over the next couple of months at http://beta.viewshare.org (your current login credentials will work). In addition to improved functionality and usability of the views, the workflow to load and build views has also been …
Posted in: Viewshare