- If you’re interested in converting your personal collections of photos or documents to digital files, you have two options. One, you can scan your own materials (or DIY). Two, you can outsource or use a scanning service to do it for you.
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- Viewshare.org has come a long way in 2 years. Take a look at some papers, presentations and blog posts that highlight access to digital collections.
- Digital humanities scholars are moving away from the idea of the "map" and towards the concept of "geospatial visualization."
- Check out the latest blog post, written by our new intern, Tess Webre!
- Preserving computer art, from the Boston Globe:
- On our blog The Signal we are joining other Library blogs in featuring inauguration-related posts.
- Do you need support in deciding whether to use open source software tools in your digital preservation work? Peter Murrary has the answers!
- The ALA's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services and the Public Library Association are collaborating with the Library of Congress to disseminate information to public libraries about personal digital archiving.
- The latest Digital Preservation newsletter is out!
- PC Magazine has an article with tips for migrating digital content onto a new computer,
- The latest version of the Digital Preservation Newsletter is out!
- An article on Boing Boing said of the Aaron Swartz Collection, "It might be the first crowd-sourced Personal Digital Archive..."
- "Atlas of Digital Damages" on Flickr, illustrating the need for a good backup plan!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/2121762@N23/ - With 2012 safely behind us, let us praise some of the best things that happened last year in digital preservation.
- Should Wikipedia delete articles that it deems are too obscure to be part of its collections?
- A BoingBoing article on the collections at the Library of Congress Packard campus.
- A project at Old Dominion Univ. to measure the archived web:
- Friday Funnies Video: Data Sharing and Management Snafu in 3 Short Acts
- Have you read the Science @ Risk: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Online Science NDIIPP report? That and lots more on our "multimedia and publications" page.
- The European Commission open data portal -- which provides access to 5800+ data sets -- is now in public beta. The EC intends to open up public sector information for free re-use as part of the European open data strategy. It is also a first step towards a pan-European data portal that will provide access to all underlying national, regional and local data portals.
- More advice to help with scanning projects:
- ARL report draws on the expertise of working video librarians, together with copyright lawyers to provide guidance on some of the thorniest questions surrounding application of Section 108 to decrepit video formats.
- Amber Case coined the term "persistent paleontology" in reference to electronic systems that continuously layer on new information and it's an interesting association because it lets us look at digital preservation from a different angle.
- New Library of Congress video: Mike Carroll, Professor at American University, Washington College of Law, on Digital Preservation and Copyright: Open Licenses."
- Viewshare in use at the Digital Scholarship Commons at Emory University.
- Are you working with geospatial data? What to learn more about preserving it? Check out geopreservation.org.
- Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, muses on "What Books Will Become."
- A quick overview of the kinds of citizen science work that the Zooniverse is involved in.
- On learning digital preservation, from Open Planets Foundation:
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