BagIt
One little bit of goodness that has percolated out from my group at $work in collaboration with the California Digital Library is the BagIt spec (more readable version). BagIt is an IETF RFC for...
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digital-curation
Some folks at LC and CDL are trying to kick-start a new public discussion list for talking about digital curation in its many guises: repositories, tools, standards, techniques, practices, etc. The...
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geeks bearing gifts
Trojan Horse in Stuttgart by Stefan Kühn I recently received some correspondence about the EZID identifier service from the California Digital Library. EZID is a relatively new service that aims to...
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The University of Southern California recently announced its Digital Repository (USCDR) which is a joint venture between the Shoah Foundation Institute and the University of Southern California. The...
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In his talk Secrecy, Archives and the Public Interest in 1970 Howard Zinn famously challenged professional archivists to realize the role of politics in their work. His talk included 7 points of...
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RealAudio, AAC and Archivy
A few months ago I happened to read a Pitchfork interview with David Grubbs about his book Records Ruin the Landscape. In the interview Grubbs mentioned how his book was influenced by a 2004 Kenny...
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On Archiving Tweets
After my last post about collecting 13 million Ferguson tweets Laura Wrubel from George Washington University’s Social Feed Manager project recommended looking at how Mark Phillips made his Yes All...
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