Keeping Your Stuff Safe, Part 1: Why you need a Plan B
An introduction to the “Keeping Your
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The Cranberry Genome: RUcore’s first foray into research data sharing
Over the summer, the RUcore team has been working with a few researchers to better understand their needs, and to work on preserving and sharing our first samples of actual research data. In collaboration with the Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension, our efforts – if you’ll pardon the pun – have begun to bear fruit.
A home for our digitization standards
Introducing a digitization standards home, detailing our recommended formats for digitizing various objects.
NY Times Article on the realities and costs of Born Digital preservation
The New York Times today published an article that reflects some of the challenges of preserving born digital content – that is, documents, data and other content that has been created digitally, on a computer or electronic device, and for which there is no physical original (such as on paper). In particular, they highlight the […]
Designing and Implementing a Center for Digital Curation Research
The facility I work in at Rutgers, known as the Scholarly Communication Center (SCC), has a fairly short history in the grand scheme of academia, and yet a fairly long one when it comes to the rapid changes in technology it has seen in its lifetime. It was originally started in the 1996, and meant to […]