Digital Curation

In the current digital age, data are everywhere and are continually being created, collected and otherwise captured by a range of users for a variety of applications. Curating digital content is a growing concern both for business users and academic researchers. Selecting, collecting, preserving and archiving digital assets, especially research data sets, are important steps in the research life cycle and can help expand the boundaries of research by allowing data to be reused.

Today we are featuring a guest post from an important member of the Omeka community, Jess Waggoner. She has led the creation of the Grateful Dead Archive Online and several Omeka plugins. Here, she writes about her and her team’s experiences building the Grateful Dead Archive Online with Omeka, lessons learned about that project and the needs of a large institutional library’s data coordination and workflow management, and plugins that reflect that work.

Preserving Complex Digital Objects. Ed. Janet Delve and David Anderson. London: Facet, 2014. 375 p. $115.00 softcover (ISBN: 978-1-85604-958-0).

Personal Digital Archiving 2015 was held in New York City April 24-25, 2015.
The presentations from this meeting are now available at the conference web site, where they are linked to the individual day agendas, at:

http://personaldigitalarchiving.com/program/

Video from the sessions can be found at the Internet Archive, at

https://archive.org/details/PDA2015

The latest release of the BitCurator environment (1.5.1) is now available at our wiki (http://wiki.bitcurator.net). Direct links and MD5 checksums can be found on the wiki, or you can follow the links below:
The BitCurator 1.5.1 Virtual Machine
The BitCurator 1.5.1 Installation ISO
This is the first public release of BitCurator built with our new bootstrap and upgrade automation tool (https://www.github.com/

ABSTRACT

As is the case with most archivists dealing with born-digital stuff, the challenge is that you can’t just look at the stuff to assess its value. Just to look at the file directory, you basically have to rescue it first and then decide if it was worth it.
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5321&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed...(hangingtogether.org)

Managing geospatial metadata records requires a range of techniques. At the University of Idaho Library, we have tens of thousands of records which need to be maintained as well as the addition of new records which need to be normalized and added to the collections. We show a graphical user interface (GUI) tool that was developed to make simple modifications, a simple XSLT that operates on complex metadata, and a Python script with enables parallel processing to make maintenance tasks more efficient. Throughout, we compare these techniques and discuss when they may be useful.

The Digital.Bodleian website, launched yesterday, includes more than 100,000 images covering everything from beautifully illustrated manuscripts and centuries-old maps to Victorian board games and Conservative Party election posters from the last 100 years.
For the first time the public can view digital versions of library materials, many of which were only previously accessible by obtaining an Oxford University Bodleian Libraries’ readers card.

Prepared as part of an ACRL Course "What You Need to Know about Writing Data Management Plans" this document provides an overview of the components for managing data. Data management includes four areas: discovery, preservation, access, and security.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1342&context=l...