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Resource: Results from the NDSA Web Archiving Survey

Web Archiving Arrives: Results from the NDSA Web Archiving Survey « The Signal: Digital Preservation. The NDSA Content Working Group, one of the five working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance focuses on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and matching orphan content with […]

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Resource: A digital experience of exploration and discovery: The Environment & Society Portal

A digital experience of exploration and discovery: The Environment & Society Portal | Ant, Spider, Bee. As the Internet delivers ever-more specific search results and personalized content, we increasingly miss out on surprising connections. Our project, the Environment & Society Portal, offers something different: an exploratory experience that lets users visualize spatial, temporal, and thematic relationships. […]

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Resource: Our Annotated HTML Video Player: Free and Open Source

Our Annotated HTML Video Player: Free and Open Source | Rural West Initiative. Recently, though, the Mozilla Foundation’s “Web Made Movies” project has been inspiring developers to think about ways, as they put it, “to make video and the Web play nicer together.” The result has been a new javascript codebase called “Popcorn,” that provides […]

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Report: On Peer Review of Digital Repositories

This document reports on the work which has been undertaken in support of the European Framework for Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories which was initiated by the European Commission’s unit which funds APARSEN. . . . The main part of this report provides details of the test audits which were carried out, the problems […]

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Fellowship: Two-Year Research Fellowship in Digital Curation

University of Colorado are seeking to hire a research fellow with a degree in Library and/or Information Science, or an arts, humanities or social science discipline in which the candidate has acquired significant research and practical expertise in the area of digital curation. The ideal candidate should provide evidence of past practical experience in digital […]

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Report: MARAC Spring 2012: Preservation of Digital Materials Session S1

The official title for this session is “Preservation and Conservation of Captured and Born Digital Materials” and it was divided into three presentations with introduction and question moderation by Jordon Steele, University Archivist at Johns Hopkins University. Digital Curation, Understanding the lifecycle of born digital items The Archivist’s Dilemma: Access to collections in the digital […]