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Dispatches: Digital Preservation 2017 conference
Image CaptionThe Andy Warhol Museum's Amiga computer exhibit, photo by Scott Witmer. A report from Pittsburgh on the National Digital Stewardship Alliance's annual conference, Digital Preservation 2017.
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Disk Imaging for Preservation: Part 1
Image CaptionA blurry picture taken by Lance Stuchell of a box of digital media from the Robert Altman collection prior to processing. An outline of the workflow developed to image and preserve...
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Disk Imaging for Preservation: Part 2
Image CaptionBox of imaged 3.5 disks from the Robert Altman Collection.Order. Sweet, sweet order. An outline of the workflow developed to image and preserve content from obsolete floppy disks. Part 2...
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Spring Digital Preservation Unit Update
Image CaptionIt's cold here, but at least spring has sprung in this monitor for some reason. Photo by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). Update on work done by the Digital Preservation...
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Adapting the Disk Imaging Workflow
Image CaptionPhoto “Change” by Christopher Lee via Flickr(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) A summary of how we transitioned our workflow for forensic imaging.
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Digital Preservation Lab 2.0
Image CaptionUnnecessary floppy drive glamour shot Major upgrades to our lab space!
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Mold is Weird: Part 1
Image CaptionA 5.25 inch floppy disk with traces of mold (the white outlines seen on the exposed parts of the inner disk) The first post on how we are dealing with moldy 5.25 floppy disks.
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Digital Preservation Lab: Equipment
Image CaptionLittle Ms. Sunshine welcomes you to the DPL! In this post we go over our current computing workstations and peripherals.
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Mold is Weird: Part 2
Part two outlining our findings after discovering some moldy floppy disks.
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Understanding thorny file formats - the netCDF Data Curation Format Profile...
Image CaptionFirst page of netCDF DCFP In the UMich Research Data Services (RDS) group, we see and work with all sorts of data. One particularly thorny variety is netCDF. In Deep Blue Data, we have...
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Deep into that darkness peering: Our Dark Repository
Image CaptionNevermore… Will you have to worry about those moving image master files! (I'm sorry)Photo "Raven" by Kasper Flörchinger via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) An examination of our new dark...
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A New Website for the Digital Preservation Lab
Image CaptionThe new lab website is open for business!Photo "Open" by Roland Tanglao via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Our Digital Preservation Lab now has a cool website with shared versions of our workflows to...
View ArticlePersonal Digital Archiving Revisited
A quick review of Personal Digital Archiving tips.
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Personal Digital Archiving Guide Part 3: Storage
Image CaptionDigital storage options on display at an office supply store.Photo by Scott Witmer. Part 3 of the Personal Digital Archiving series looks at storage options for backing up your digital data.
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Looking Back on World Digital Preservation Day
Image CaptionPop-Up Digital Archiving Clinic, photo by Susan Borda A brief photo tour of the Digital Preservation Unit's Pop-Up Digital Archiving event for World Digital Preservation Day 2018.
View ArticleChange is coming to Deep Blue Data!
We are upgrading the software that runs Deep Blue Data to Hyrax2. This upgrade will results in some changes and improvements to the user interface and functionality of the Deep Blue Data repository.
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Click-Click-Dead: Pt. 1
Image Captionlil box of horrors Photo "Zip Disks" by Adriano Lima via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The click of death and more fun with Zip disks!
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Click-Click-Dead: Pt. 2
Image CaptionPhoto "Clicks of Death for sale" by Phil Dokas via Flickr(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) More on our adventure with recovering Zip disks!
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Deep Blue PDF Health Check
Image CaptionOpen up and say PDF/AAAAAAAAAAAAAPhoto by Penn State via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Announcement of our PDF research project.
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World Digital Preservation Day 2019
Image CaptionLance Stuchell, Head of the Digital Preservation Unit, expounds on the differences between 3.5-inch floppy disks. The U-M Digital Preservation Unit celebrated World Digital Preservation...
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Personal Digital Archiving Guide, 2019 Edition
The Personal Digital Archiving zine is now available in the Digital Preservation Lab and in Shapiro Library Design Lab's Design-o-Matic 4000 vending machine!
View ArticleShameless Self-Promotion is the Best Kind of Self-Promotion
Over the past year our work has been featured in a video and podcast.
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Digital Archiving Research Guide
Announcing the publication of the Digital Archiving Research Guide, with tips and recommendations for organizing and preserving your personal digital files.
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A Starting Line for Digital Preservation
Image CaptionSTART FINISH by Steve Snodgrass via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) We have drafted a document outlining what "digital preservation" means at our institution.
View ArticleContributing a Citation to DataCite - "IsCitedBy"
In early 2021, I was trying to verify whether the DataCite Data Metrics badge, https://support.datacite.org/docs/displaying-usage-and-citations-in-your-repository a tool for displaying usage and...
View ArticleFollowing a Data Citation through the Publishing Process
In the Spring of 2021, a researcher I regularly work with informed me that he had included the citation to his dataset in the References section of the paper that he had just submitted to AGU JGR...
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Our First Digital Preservation Assessment
Image CaptionNo actual clipboards were used in this assessment. Clipboard by Dave Crosby via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) In the summer and early fall of 2021, the Digital Preservation Steering Committee...
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Archiving Twitter
Image CaptionWorried about Twitter’s new direction, some users and advertisers have abandoned the platform. Photo by Life Of Pix on Pixnio (CC0) Turmoil at Twitter is causing concerns about the...
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The Horrors of Good Intentions: Told through the story of a dark repository.
Image CaptionMe (pictured left) and Being Honest About My Capacity (pictured right). Image from pixabay.com. An overview and lessons learned from challenges faced in the management of our dark...
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Documenting a Mixed Language: Interview with Dr. Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
Image CaptionDr. Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales interviewing a Lannang speaker. His research focused on undocumented mixed language (Lannang), which is a combination of Tagalog, English, and Chinese...
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Stabilizing Ships with a Flywheel: Interview with Nate Clemett
Image CaptionMS student Nate Clemett and collaborators' research focused on testing the effectiveness of using a flywheel to stabilize naval vessels. In this interview, Nate Clemett (Master's student...
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Measuring Snow Reflectance: Interview with Dr. Adam Schneider
Image CaptionMagnified images of snow using micro-computed tomography. From Dr. Adam Schneider's dissertation. In this interview, Dr. Adam Schneider (U-M alum; PhD in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space...
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Simulating historical and future pollen emissions: An Interview with Yingxiao...
Image CaptionYingxiao Zhang, PhD candidate in the Climate and Space Sciences department In this interview, Yingxiao Zhang (PhD candidate in the Climate and Space Sciences department) describes why she...
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Measuring hormone concentrations in woolly mammoth and African elephant...
Image CaptionComputerized tomography (CT) scan of the right tusk of an African elephant (Loxodonta africana) In this interview, Dr. Adam Rountrey is the Research Museum Collection Manager...
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Newly released: Data Curation Primer on Data Accessibility
Image CaptionThe beginning of the primer One of the main activities the Deep Blue Repository & Research Data Services team conducts is data curation(1)--that is, actions that provide meaningful and...
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Introducing Daniel Alexander! Our new Data Curation and Research...
Image CaptionDaniel Alexander joins us from Cornell University where he spent the last five years working in the area of research reproducibility. This post highlights one of the new members to the...
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Introducing Peter Cerda! Our new Data Curation Specialist for Workflows and...
Image CaptionPeter holding a Leptophis ahaetulla caught in Belize during his Ph.D. field work. This post highlights one of the new members to the DBRRDS team! Peter Cerda is Data Curation Specialist...
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Finding Our Way In The Dark (Repository)
Image CaptionA light at the end of the tunnel? Image from pixabay.com. Part two of our ongoing series on getting our dark repository back up and running. This post outlines our approach to moving...
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Solving a Seismic Mystery with Diver's Camera: An Interview with Dr. Amir...
Image CaptionDr. Amir Salaree is a Research Fellow in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. He has published over a dozen peer reviewed articles on...
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iPres 2023: Notes from the Kettle
Image CaptionConference swag from iPres 2023 in Champaign-Urbana The 2023 iPres conference at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana brought an international community of digital archivists to...
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Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodres (PASH): Interview with Mike Galaty of the UM...
Image CaptionPhoto by Michael L. Galaty We are excited to share the publication of "Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)"...
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Celebrate Open Access Week with Deep Blue Repositories
Open Access Week 2023 is upon us! The theme this year is "Community over Commercialization." This theme emphasizes transparency and equitable access to knowledge, which directly aligns with the goals...
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Deep Blue Data celebrates 1,000 individually-curated datasets during Love...
This Love Data Week, Deep Blue Data celebrates 1,000 curated and published datasets!
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Understanding the atmosphere of the planet of love: Interview with Brandon...
Image CaptionDr. Brandon Ponder, Ph.D. earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2023, with a focus on exploring the energy balance of Mars, Earth and Venus. He now focus on various topics...
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Machine Learning and Shipwrecks: Interview with the Field Robotics Group
Image CaptionAnja Sheppard with collaborators on their research vessel. Photo by Darby Hinkley of the Alpena News. In this interview, Anja Sheppard, Ph.D. Candidate in Robotics, describes her research...
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New Web Archive: State Policies on Book Challenges in Schools and Libraries
Image CaptionScreenshot of an unzipped WARC file In response to the rise in book challenges in Michigan and across the country, a new web archive has been created to preserve, to the best of our...
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Unpacking Old Baggage: Re-Assessing How We Format Metadata and Better...
In 2024, The U-M Library Digital Preservation Lab uncovered an almost decade-old mistake in our metadata workflow. Luckily, we were able to use this as a learning experience to think about how we can...
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Can you have your content and eat it, too?
Image CaptionFigure 5 Image and data-src information for content In Web Archiving, do you get just the images or the entire site with most functionality intact? This blog will cover the process of just...
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Open Access Week 2024: Community over Commercialization
As a fully Open Access institutional data repository, Deep Blue Data was built to serve the best interests of the public, our depositors and their academic communities. We partner with scholars to...
View ArticleThe Detroit Metro Area Community Study (DMACS) and Michigan Metro Area...
This Bits & Pieces blog post talks about the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) and its expansion, the Michigan Metro Area Communities Study (MIMACS), and their initial releases of...
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