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Posted by: Leslie Johnston
I was talking to one of my archivist colleagues about a collection he was processing and the challenges he was having identifying file types based on their extensions. The collection does go back several decades, but some of the file extensions were unrecognizable. This was when I confessed: during a period of time in my …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
I was exceptionally honored to be asked to give the opening keynote for code4lib 2013, one of the key meetings for library technologists. People may have thought that I would speak about, well, coding, or repository development, or online tools or even digital preservation. But I didn’t. I talked about community building. The code4lib community …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the 2013 CurateGear meeting held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on January 9, 2013. And what a good experience it was. CurateGear is a somewhat unique experience because it focuses not on presentations, but on demonstrations. LIVE demonstrations. Every presenter gives a …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Tools and Infrastructure