The following is a guest post by Vicky Steeves, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. This is the first in a series of posts by the residents from NDSR class of 2014-2015. I wanted to take this opportunity, as the first 2014-2015 resident to post on […]
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Residency Program Success Stories, Part One
The following is a guest post by Julio Díaz Laabes, HACU intern and Program Management Assistant at the Library of Congress. Coming off the heels of a successful beginning for the Boston and New York set of cohorts, the National Digital Stewardship Residency Program is becoming a model for digital stewardship residencies on a national […]
Hallelujah and praise the LARD! The first London Area Research Data group meeting
This is a guest post by Laurence Horton, Data Librarian at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) It was a hot and stormy day; the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when I dodged … Continue reading →
Library to Launch 2015 Class of NDSR
The Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has recently announced the 2015 National Digital Stewardship Residency program, which will be held in the Washington, DC area starting in June 2015. As you may know (NDSR was well represented on the blog last year), this […]
DPOE Working Group Moves Forward on Curriculum
For many organizations that are just starting to tackle digital preservation, it can be a daunting challenge – and particularly difficult to figure out the first steps to take. Education and training may be the best starting point, creating and expanding the expertise available to handle this kind of challenge. The Digital Preservation Outreach and […]
Residency Program Update and Panel Preview for DP2014
The National Digital Stewardship Residency program just completed the first year of residencies in the Washington, DC area. The second, upcoming round of residencies will take place in New York and Boston, and both cities have recently announced the selection of residents and projects. At this year’s Digital Preservation 2014, there will be a panel […]
Destination: CESSDA Training
As you may have noticed here and there, some developments have been going on behind the scenes at the Archive and Data Management Training Center. Since the official launch of CESSDA AS in Bergen on December 5th, 2013, we have … Continue reading →
Fostering open science
Training for EC project officers on open access and open data in Horizon 2020
We ran four half-day workshops at the end of June as part of the FOSTER project. FOSTER aims to facilitate open science by training researchers about open access a…
It takes a data management village
A couple of weeks ago, information scientists, librarians, social scientists, and their compatriots gathered in Toronto for the 2014 IASSIST meeting. IASSIST is, of course, an acronym which I always have to look up to remember – International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology. Despite its forgettable name, this conference is one of […]
Walking in our shoes! Training the trainers in digital preservation
This blog is co-written with our former colleague Laurence Horton (London School of Economics and Political Science). It is based on a workshop presented at Archiving 2014, Berlin and IASSIST 2014, Toronto. “Digital preservation isn’t my job. Leave it to … Continue reading →