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RUcore, Digital Video, and the China Boom
Recently, members of the Rutgers University Libraries at both integrated Information Systems and the Scholarly Communication Center began an auspicious collaboration with the Asia Society in New York City, in our first project to digitally preserve, to standards, their digital … Continue reading
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Tagged archive, curation, digital, Final Cut Pro, formats, preservation, repository, RUcore, video
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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. Continue reading
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Tagged cranberry, curation, data, digital, repository, RUcore, RUresearch
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Ribbon Task Force, economics, Mellon Foundation, NSF, preservation, repository
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged curation, data, digital, facility, formats, presentations, preservation, repository, tools
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The case for improved large file support in digital repositories
As the person responsible for handling the various file formats in RUcore, the digital library repository for Rutgers University Libraries, I’ve been looking with trepidation at the increasing sizes of the digital assets people are starting to create. In 2004 when … Continue reading
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Tagged archive, cataloging, digital, Duraspace, FEDORA, files, format, large, preservation, repository, storage
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