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Digital Preservation: What It Is and Why are We Blogging About It?
This inaugural post of Bits and Pieces answers the age old questions: What is digital preservation? Why are you writing about it? Who the heck are you?
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Submit Feedback to the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is accepting feedback on its Recommended Format Specifications for its annual update. The deadline to submit feedback is tomorrow, March 31st.
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iPRES 2015 Call for Contributions
Deadlines are approaching to share your work related to preservation and the long term management of digital materials. Submit today!
View ArticleWSU NDSA 2015 Student Colloquium
The Wayne State University National Digital Stewardship Alliance Student Chapter will be hosting its 3nd colloquium, “Putting the Pieces Together: Digital Curation, Preservation, and Metadata”, on...
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Get With the Program: Digital Preservation at a Large Academic Library
Look, we wrote a new post!! This one talks about differences between digital preservation projects and programs, and challenges of building a program that accommodates a wide range of content.
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Where in the Org Chart is Digital Preservation?
When a research library creates a position with responsibility for the preservation of digital stuff, where on the organizational hierarchy should that position hang? Is digital preservation an IT job,...
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More Bits and Bigger Pieces: Now Including Digital Research Data
Bits and Pieces is expanding its discussion to include lots about research data!
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Love Your Data Week: Keep Your Data Safe
Welcome to our series of Love Your Data Week posts! Each day this week, in connection with the Love Your Data campaign on social media, a UM librarian will be blogging about a different data-related...
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Love Your Data Week: Keep Your Data Organized
The Oxford English Dictionary defines organized as: “Of a person: having one's affairs in order so as to be able to deal with them efficiently.” When you spend the best hours of your day doing research...
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Love your Data through Documentation
Documenting your data is kind of like eating your spinach. You know that you need to do it to keep your data healthy, but it’s not something that you look forward to. Good documentation takes an...
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Love your data? Share it!
It is common scholarly practice to publish results of research, and it is becoming increasingly more important to share the underlying data. Data sharing allows for the replicability and verification...
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Love your data by learning how to get the most out of it
You probably know that the University of Michigan Library offers a variety of educational programs, but did you know that these programs include topics relevant to working with research data?
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Love your data? Share it!
It is common scholarly practice to publish results of research, and it is becoming increasingly more important to share the underlying data. Data sharing allows for the replicability and verification...
View ArticleAssessing and Quantifying Risk to Digital Media Materials
A summary of a risk assessment model as applied to a born-digital archival collection at M Library.
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The University of Michigan Library hosts Midwest Data Librarian Symposium
This past week, the University of Michigan Library was pleased to host the second annual Midwest Data Librarian Symposium (MDLS). The goal of the symposium was to offer librarians who work with...
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Get With the Program: Digital Preservation at a Large Academic Library
Look, we wrote a new post!! This one talks about differences between digital preservation projects and programs, and challenges of building a program that accommodates a wide range of content.
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Where in the Org Chart is Digital Preservation?
When a research library creates a position with responsibility for the preservation of digital stuff, where on the organizational hierarchy should that position hang? Is digital preservation an IT job,...
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More Bits and Bigger Pieces: Now Including Digital Research Data
Bits and Pieces is expanding its discussion to include lots about research data!
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Love Your Data Week: Keep Your Data Safe
Welcome to our series of Love Your Data Week posts! Each day this week, in connection with the Love Your Data campaign on social media, a UM librarian will be blogging about a different data-related...
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Love Your Data Week: Keep Your Data Organized
The Oxford English Dictionary defines organized as: “Of a person: having one's affairs in order so as to be able to deal with them efficiently.” When you spend the best hours of your day doing research...
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