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Preserving The Full Historic Record In Holistic Newspaper Digital Preservation: From The Backend To The Front, Virginia A. Dressler Apr 2018

Preserving The Full Historic Record In Holistic Newspaper Digital Preservation: From The Backend To The Front, Virginia A. Dressler

Virginia A Dressler


The paper will address two issues present in digital newspaper collections, namely that of long-term storage and access solutions specific to this medium, and takedown requests. The paper will outline the storage and hosting solution in place at Kent State University (KSU) of the student newspaper. The current digital archive contains ninety years of the printed newspaper (1926-2016), both reflecting both digitized and born-digital content. Decisions will be highlighted on the files retained on the dark archive (pod0), and conversely which files are stored on the hosting platform as access files.
 
Then, results will be presented from a recent …

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Avoiding The Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz Nov 2017

Avoiding The Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz

Matt Schultz

Personal content creation, collection, curation, and sharing are advancing into a new paradigm highly dependent on corporately controlled online platforms. Creators and cultural memory organizations are grappling with questions of ownership, control, and at-will sharing. This chapter explores curatorial strategies, advocacy efforts and grassroots initiatives that can serve as solutions.

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Access Update For Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker Oct 2017

Access Update For Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker

Matt Schultz

By Fall 2016, GVSU Libraries began making a major strategic and technology shift toward the use of open source technologies versus commercial vendor solutions for digital preservation and access. In this presentation to the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners (MMDP) community, Matt Schultz (Metadata & Digital Curation Librarian) and Kyle Felker (Digital Initiatives Librarian) provide updates on these new directions.

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Maa & Mmdp: Fall Workshop 2016 With Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel Nov 2016

Maa & Mmdp: Fall Workshop 2016 With Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel

Matt Schultz

In Summer 2016, GVSU Libraries was invited to submit a brief article for the Michigan Archival Association's Fall Open Entry newsletter on the background and impact of the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioner's community. The article provides that background and several details and outcomes of the most recent meetings.

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Moving The Digital Curation Needle @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker Nov 2016

Moving The Digital Curation Needle @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker

Matt Schultz

Grand Valley State University (GVSU) is a dynamically growing public liberal arts university located in Allendale, Michigan, United States. In 2012, GVSU Libraries became the recipient of the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. The Libraries prides itself on innovation and taking risks to better serve its faculty and students and to improve its collections.

In step with that mission, beginning in early 2016 the Libraries began making strides to move beyond outsourcing its digital curation and to strengthen capacity and expertise for managing its own open source digital collections technologies.

This immediately involved making dramatic changes to a range …

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Digital Preservation Strategies For A Small Private College, Meg Miner Apr 2015

Digital Preservation Strategies For A Small Private College, Meg Miner

Meg Miner

Well established “best practices” in digital preservation (DP) do little to address day-to-day realities in repositories that cannot dedicate funds or staff to DP workflows. What can a Lone Arranger do to ensure good stewardship for born digital and digitized institutional records before a complete preservation system is in place?

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Sabbatical Report: Summary Of Survey Results On Digital Preservation Practices At 148 Institutions, Meghan Banach Bergin Jan 2013

Sabbatical Report: Summary Of Survey Results On Digital Preservation Practices At 148 Institutions, Meghan Banach Bergin

Meghan Banach Bergin

The purpose of my sabbatical project was to identify institutions with established digital preservation programs, and investigate how these programs were implemented. To accomplish this task, I conducted a web-based survey that looked into what systems were being used for digital preservation, what services were offered to the campus or user community, staffing and organizational models to support digital preservation programs, as well as the costs associated with these various digital preservation programs. I received a total of 148 responses to the survey. Of the 148 responses, 100 respondents finished the survey. To follow up from the survey, I conducted …

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Digital Preservation With Special Reference To The Open Archival Information System (Oais) Reference Model: An Overview, Sibsankar Jana, Mrinal Kanti Mondal, Ujjal Marjit Feb 2009

Digital Preservation With Special Reference To The Open Archival Information System (Oais) Reference Model: An Overview, Sibsankar Jana, Mrinal Kanti Mondal, Ujjal Marjit

Sibsankar Jana

Libraries are engaged in the creating and marinating digital libraries all over world. A digital library that deals with data those are born digital as well as those that have been digitized from their analogue form. So there is a need to preserve digital resources for future use. Since the nature of digital data or resource is intangible and it cannot see in necked eyes so there is a need to preserve and organized them in such a way that we can get easily access to them. Developing preservation process for digital resources will require the integration of new methods, …

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Archives Annual Reports, 2009-, Meg Miner Dec 2008

Archives Annual Reports, 2009-, Meg Miner

Meg Miner

This link leads to the Illinois Wesleyan University's institutional repository location for the annual reports I create about the archives. Earlier archives reports are available in Record Group 4-12/7/6.

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