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Digital Preservation, Long-term storage, and Hurricane Sandy
Even stable storage media present problems for preserving digital resources. How do academic institutions deal with servers shutting down, limited resources, and natural disasters?
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Press: Appfest Coverage Highlights
Appfest shows off space for collaboration in the Chattanooga Public Library View more from Aaron Schmidt, Views from the DPLA Appfest at Chattanooga Public Library 4th Floor of the Chattanooga Public Library looks blank, but is full of room for community and creativity “I think institutions have layers that move at different speeds. The parts of…
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Press: $247,000 grant from the Knight Foundation helps Middle Georgia Libraries to grow databases
“Over the years, people have called Muriel McDowell-Jackson, devastated after they lost photos or other sentimental objects in a house fire or some other family tragedy. “They often turn to McDowell-Jackson, the head genealogy librarian/archivist for the Middle Georgia Regional Library, hoping that some portion of their history has been previously preserved in the library’s…
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Digital Library Digest: November 20, 2012
This week’s digest features a town’s effort to collect content by hosting a “Digital Donation Day,” a DIY robotic book scanner plan, a JSTOR and Wikipedia open access partnership, a founding partner of the World Digital Library’s own effort to create a digital library at home, and a decision from Louisiana state to cut all…
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DPLA Announces New Assistant Director for Content
The DPLA Secretariat is pleased to announce the appointment of Amy Rudersdorf as the DPLA Assistant Director for Content, beginning January 1, 2013.
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Press: Toby Graham interview about the DPLA on WGAU
“Toby Graham, Director of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), was interviewed on WGAU’s Newsmakers with Tim Bryant program. The topic of this interview was the DLG’s involvement with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). It is an excellent introduction to the goals of the DPLA, and to the important role that the DLG…
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John Palfrey delivers TEDx Talk
John Palfrey, Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover, and member of the DPLA Board of Directors, delivered a talk entitled “Digital Libraries and Keeping Well in a Digital Age,” at last week’s TEDxPhillipsAcademy event. Palfrey introduces the DPLA, and discusses the importance continued importance of physical objects and face-to-face interaction as a way of…
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Digital Library Digest: November 13, 2012
This week’s digest discusses the issue of time and maintaining of cloud server based archives, a crowdsourced transcription effort by the National Archive of Australia, a Danish effort to offer free on-demand digitizing, the work of the University of Georgia digital hub, and the Author’s Guild’s appeal of the HathiTrust court decision.
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Digital Library Digest: November 6, 2012
Not Just a Matter of Acid-Free Paper Anymore, Long Term Storage Issues for Digital Media “Stanford University‘s (CA) Julie Sweetkind-Singer is a recognized authority on digital preservation, and has been honored by the Library of Congress for her work in the field. She currently serves as both the assistant director of Stanford’s Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data…
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Rijksmusem Launches 125,000 Image Digital Collection
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseumlaunces its digital collection. “Rijksstudio,” the 125,000 work collection, provides access to some of the museum’s most famous paintings. Users can also register with the site to access the Rijksstudio API, with metadata for 111,000 of the site’s images.
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