AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE GROWTH OF PERSONAL ARCHIVING, LIBRARIES ARE EXPERIENCING AN INCREASING NUMBER OF USERS ASKING FOR HELP WITH SOFTWARE TO CREATE AND MANAGE THEIR ARCHIVING PROJECTS.
Information Today recently published Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage, a collection of essays written by some of the leading practitioners, thinkers and researchers in the emerging field of personal digital archiving. We are honored that Information Today — and especially the book’s editor, Donald Hawkins — asked us to share our resources and experiences by contributing an essay to the book.
If so, you are in luck – The Library of Congress have a publication on that very subject. “Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving” was published and announced earlier this year, but I think it’s worth a reminder at this point, especially for those that may not have seen it yet.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/documents/ebookpdf_march18.pdf?loclr=...
Three former researchers are now aiming for one lofty goal: to build the “Evernote for researchers”. Simon Bungers is a molecular biologist, Florian Hauer a biophysicist and Mathias Schäffner is a software architect – together, they developed Labfolder, a digital tool for documenting and planning experiments.
The startup is also working to be market-ready by the end of the year – it already has a beta version, which 600 people are currently using.
Labfolder hopes to remain free for individual researchers and smaller research groups.
from The Signal - Public libraries are becoming the front lines in the spread of digital literacy. This is evident in the calls for action contained in the Institute of Museum and Library Science’s “Building Digital Communities” guide and in the increasing volume of topics about “digitization” and “digital libraries” at ALA conferences.
“Digital literacy” in the context of public libraries refers mainly to empowering people to use computers and the Internet in order to improve their quality of life and job prospects.
Cathy Marshall's powerpoint for Code4Lib in 2010, where she makes the point the digital lets us keep everything but should we; it is easier to keep than cull however is benign neglect a de facto stewardship technique and collection policy?
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/cathymar/code4lib-keynote-for...
The team of Melbourne University researchers examined licencing policies, terms of use agreements and copyright law, and interviewed a range of people, including funeral directors, religious workers, internet content and service providers, as well as estate planning lawyers.
DPOE Curriculum
The DPOE Baseline Digital Preservation Curriculum consists of 6 easily understandable topics.
* Identify . . . the types of digital content you have.
* Select . . . what portion of your digital content will be preserved.
* Store . . . your selected content for the long term.
* Protect . . . your content from everyday threats and emergency contingencies.
* Manage . . . and implement requirements for long term management.
* Provide . . . access to digital content over time.
The Practice of Data Curation - As research and teaching produce ever-increasing amounts of data in analog and digital forms, what we do with that data is a question that librarians, archivists, scholars, teachers, and students must address. The four contributors discuss what “data curation” is and might become. We invite you to read through the responses by author or by question.
Welcome to Resources Anonymous, the support group for librarians addicted to information overload and teachers trying to stay up to speed on the Common Core Curriculum. One dirty secret of librarianship is that some of us still measure our worth by the quantity of resources we amass and disburse. But in this age of information abundance, our real value is being able to discern quality over quantity.
Increasingly, less really is more.