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Announcing the Inaugural Class of National Digital Stewardship Residents
The National Digital Stewardship Residency Program has reached a major milestone – the ten residents for the inaugural class have now been chosen! It was a very competitive selection process, and these ten new residents have proven themselves highly qualified to take on current and future challenges of digital stewardship work. They will arrive in […]
Where is the Applied Digital Preservation Research?
A few months back, during the Personal Digital Archiving 2013 conference, I was struck by how much interesting research was being done in the field of digital preservation. Everything from digital forensics to gamification, all of it thoughtful, much of it very practical and applicable. Still, I couldn’t help wishing that there was even more […]
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New ORCID-integrated data citation tool
A new beta service has been launched for searching and claiming works in DataCite:
http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org
With this tool, created in the context of the ODIN Project, authors can identify themselves with their ORCID ID and search their own wo…
audiovisual file formats, bit preservation, Data, digital formats, digital photographs, digital photos, digitization, metadata, Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving, photometadata, scanning, tools
What People Are Asking About Personal Digital Archiving
During Preservation Week 2013, I gave a webinar about personal digital archiving. Over 600 people participated and, during the post-presentation question section, 91 people submitted questions online. I had time to answer about a dozen or so. After the webinar, the hosts from the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services sent me the complete […]
Digital Preservation for the People!
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council, National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group co-chair and a former Fellow in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to teach a personal digital archiving workshop at the […]