Dataset sharing and preservation strategies at Rutgers
The NSF now requires academic researchers to come up with a plan to store and share their digital research data. RUcore is here to help.
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New Anticircumvention Rulemaking: Major Shifts in the DMCA thanks to Library of Congress
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.
Your tweets, saved for eternity
With over 12 billion 140-character messages and growing, Twitter has exploded onto the social networking scene since the first Tweet ever posted roughly fours ago. Those tiny text-based messages add up: That’s an estimated 1.5 terabaytes of data, and growing! It looks like the Library of Congress sees the social impact and significance of the […]
The Economics of Digital Preservation, Analyzed and Digested
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 […]
The MetaArchive Cooperative’s “Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation”
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 […]