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Recommended practices for digital curation
One of biggest problems we’ve run into has been how people name files after they’ve created or digitized them. In this article, I’ll list some of the basic recommendations that ensure file processing on a digital library project will go smoothly. I’ll also point out some tips and tricks that have worked well for us in projects handled at the Digital Curation Research Center.
Introducing a digitization standards home, detailing our recommended formats for digitizing various objects.
The Library of Congress has made some pretty significant decisions in how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is applied, affecting how we copy DVDs, jailbreak iPhones, and even circumvent DRM on eBooks and computer software.
If there is one thing that every organization, institution, and individual curator learns as they delve into digitally preserving their collections, it’s that digital preservation isn’t cheap. While there are very compelling reasons for digitizing, sometimes including it being cost-effective, there are still significant startup costs and an ongoing financial commitment required to sustain and keep your digital preservation projects […]
A really good resource for those just getting acquainted with digital preservation is MetaArchive‘s recently-released “A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation,” availble in PDF format, or orderable in paper form through their site. Per MetaArchive’s announcement: This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the […]