This is a guest post by Charlotte Kostelic, National Digital Stewardship Resident with the Library of Congress and Royal Collection Trust for the Georgian Papers Programme. Her project focuses on exploring ways to optimize access and use among related digital collections held at separate institutions. This work has included a comparative analysis of international metadata […]
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Automating Digital Archival Processing at Johns Hopkins University
This is a guest post from Elizabeth England, National Digital Stewardship Resident, and Eric Hanson, Digital Content Metadata Specialist, at Johns Hopkins University. Elizabeth: In my National Digital Stewardship Residency at Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, I am responsible for a digital preservation project addressing a large backlog (about 50 terabytes) of photographs documenting the university’s […]
Developing a Digital Preservation Infrastructure at Georgetown University Library
This is a guest post by Joe Carrano, a resident in the National Digital Stewardship Residency program. The Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library is at home among the many Brutalist-style buildings in and around Washington, D.C. This granite-chip aggregate structure, the main library at Georgetown University, houses a moderate-sized staff that provides critical information needs […]
Spotlighting Research Data: Building Relationships with Outreach for the NYU Data Catalog
This is a guest post by Nicole Contaxis, Data Catalog Coordinator at NYU Health Sciences Library. You can email her at nicole.contaxis@nyumc.org. An increasing number of publishers and grant-funding organizations are requiring researchers to share their data, so libraries and other institutions are creating tools and strategies to support researchers in this effort. To meet […]
Using Three-Dimensional Modeling to Preserve Cultural Heritage
This is a guest post by Elizabeth England, a resident in the National Digital Stewardship Residency program. In recent years, a few news stories focused on the use of digital tools in preserving cultural heritage three-dimensional objects, stories such as the printed reconstruction of the Arch of Triumph in Palmyra, Syria and the construction of a […]
Digital Preservation at the State Library of Massachusetts
This is a guest post by Stefanie Ramsay. How do you capture, preserve and make accessible thousands of born-digital documents produced by state agencies, published to varying websites without any notification or consistency and which are often relocated or removed over time? This is the complex task that the State Library of Massachusetts faces in […]
Data Migration, Digital Asset Management and Microservices at CUNY TV
This is a guest post from Dinah Handel. For the past six months, I’ve been immersed in the day to day operations of the archive and library at CUNY Television, a public television station located at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My National Digital Stewardship residency has consisted of a […]
Data Migration, Digital Asset Management and Microservices at CUNY TV
This is a guest post from Dinah Handel. For the past six months, I’ve been immersed in the day to day operations of the archive and library at CUNY Television, a public television station located at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My National Digital Stewardship residency has consisted of a […]
Intellectual Property Rights Issues for Software Emulation: An Interview with Euan Cochrane, Zach Vowell, and Jessica Meyerson
The following is a guest post by Morgan McKeehan, National Digital Stewardship Resident at Rhizome. She is participating in the NDSR-NYC cohort. I began my National Digital Stewardship Residency at Rhizome — NDSR project description here (PDF) — by leading a workshop for the by leading a workshop for the Emulation as a Service framework […]
Inventorying Software Developed at the National Library of Medicine: An NDSR Project Update
The following is a guest post by Nicole Contaxis, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the National Library of Medicine. She participates in the NDSR-DC cohort. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has a fifty year tradition of developing software in-house for its own use and for the use of its patrons. As part of the […]