Top of page

Category: Tools and Infrastructure

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

All that Big Data Is Not Going to Manage Itself: Part Two

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

Yesterday’s blog post described some of the federal government initiatives that have driven data management requirements over the past ten years or so. “Data management” is a hot job area right now, and if you tilt the digital stewardship universe a certain direction, almost everything we do falls under the rubric of “data management.” Data …

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

Where are the Born-Digital Archives Test Data Sets?

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

By Butch Lazorchak and Trevor Owens We’ve talked in the past on the Signal on the need more applied research in digital preservation and stewardship. This is a key issue addressed by the 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship, which dives in a little deeper to suggest that there’s a great need to strengthen the …