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New NDSA Report: Geospatial Data Stewardship Key Online Resources

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

“Location is everywhere.” It’s become a catch phrase in mobile computing development and marketing, but it could just as easily become standard operating procedure in libraries, archives and museums as our content becomes increasingly geoenabled, using “location intelligence” to liberate our physical information from the confines of our walled spaces. Legislators, funders and planners have …

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New NDSA Report: The Benefits and Risks of the PDF/A-3 File Format for Archival Institutions

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

We’re lucky in the digital stewardship community that our challenges tend to be non life-threatening. Still, when we get fired up about something there is guaranteed to be spirited debate and passionate advocacy on all sides. Such was the case with the release of the PDF/A-3 file format specification in October 2012. We wrote about …

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A National Agenda Bibliography for Digital Asset Sustainability and Preservation Cost Modeling

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The 2014 National Digital Stewardship Agenda, released in July 2013, is still a must-read (have you read it yet?). It integrates the perspective of dozens of experts to provide funders and decision-makers with insight into emerging technological trends, gaps in digital stewardship capacity and key areas for development. The Agenda suggests a number of important …