Collaboration is optional
Decisions on library collaboration can be improved by adopting an options perspective. Can a modest investment now expand future choices or flexibility?
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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year …
It’s World Digital Preservation Day – a time of celebration and good cheer with friends and family! Not to mention a great way to raise awareness about the importance of …
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Happy World Digital Preservation Day! (Research Data Edition)
Today is World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD), a cherished tradition since … 2017. As part of the festivities, a host of individuals with connections to the digital preservation community were …
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Two Reports on Web Archiving: Literature Review and Tools Analysis
In yesterday’s post I briefly summarized the three reports issued last month by the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group. This post goes into more depth about …
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Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving: Read the reports!
What’s the most widely-shared, top- priority web archiving issue across the OCLC Research Library Partnership? We conducted a survey two years ago to explore web archiving needs across the Partnership, …
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Feedback, please! DRAFT web archiving metadata best practices!
As you may know, the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (WAM) has been working for the past year to draft best practices for web archiving metadata—and voila, our draft …
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Curation of born-digital materials begins at home
Like most people, I have an “archive” of personal born-digital materials on various media. Like most people’s personal archives, mine has CDs and DVDs and 3 1/2″ disks. Mine …
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Archivists should be key players in managing born-digital library materials
As an archivist, I’m acutely aware of the broad applicability of archivists’ skills and expertise to the challenges facing research libraries—challenges in areas beyond those traditionally seen as within the …
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Digital Preservation / Evolving Scholarly Record / Higher Education Future / Research Information Management / Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization
The Evolving Scholarly Record Workshop — the San Francisco edition and the series wrap-up
The report, The Evolving Scholarly Record, introduced a framework for discussing the changes in the scholarly record and in the roles of stakeholders. Over the past year, OCLC has conducted …
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Going, going, gone: The imperative for archiving the web
We all know that over the past 30+ years the World Wide Web has become an indispensable tool (understatement!) for disseminating information, extending the reputations of organizations and businesses, enabling Betty the Blogger to establish an international …
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