Following on some initial thoughts about Scoping Machine-Actionable DMPs (maDMPs), we’re keen to dive into the substance. There are plenty of research questions we plan to explore here and over the course of our maDMP prototyping efforts. Let’s begin with these: … Continue reading →
Explore Historical Images through the Library of Congress Free to Use Browser Extension
This is a guest post by Flynn Shannon, a Junior Fellow in the Library of Congress Office of Communications. Before coming to the Library of Congress as a Junior Fellow I had no concept of how large or varied its collections are. Over 167 million items are kept at the Library. Of these, more than […]
Merritt – a CoreTrustSeal-certified digital repository
We’ve updated the Merritt home page to showcase our certification as a CoreTrustSeal trustworthy data repository and highlight some of the library and archival projects…
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Signal Chain: an unconference for media preservation professionals
August 11, 2018
by Hannah Frost
On July 17-18, the Stanford Media Preservation Lab team welcomed a small group of media preservation professionals from around the region and across the country to our home on the Stanford Redwood City campus for two days of “unconferencing”. While Stanford has been a leader in media preservation among academic libraries for over a decade, this was our first time hosting a community-oriented event with the goal of advancing our collective work: to ensure ongoing, long-term access to audiovisual recordings of all kinds in the interest of scholarly research, artistic continuity, and the public good.
More Web Archives, Less Process
This is a guest post by Grace Thomas, a Digital Collections Specialist for the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team. The Library of Congress Digital Content Management Section is excited to announce the release of 4,240 new web archives across 43 event and thematic collections on loc.gov, our largest single release of web archives to […]
Org ID: a recap and a hint of things to come
Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose—California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID—invested our time and energy into…