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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?
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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A Born-Digital Laboratory is Born
Image CaptionOur lab unfortunately does not have beakers. Beakers by Sandor Weisz via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) We are putting together a super sweet lab to handle born-digital content!!
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Personal Digital Archiving Guide Part 1: Preservation Planning
Image CaptionEpigraph from The End Games by T. Michael Martin The first in a series of how-to guides helping you to preserve your personal files and archives!
View ArticleData Management Plans as a Research Tool (DART)
At the May 2017 Data Bites meeting, Research Data Services (RDS) Manager Jake Carlson presented on his work with an IMLS-funded project, Data Management Plans as a Research Tool (DART). This...
View ArticleDeep Blue Data: New Features
The Deep Blue Data development and service teams have been hard at work incorporating feedback from our diverse community of users. Development is ongoing and we are rolling out many small changes,...
View ArticleCopyright and Preservation Workshop
Copyright and Preservation workshop, Monday, 6/19, 11:00 am-12:00 pm How does copyright law treat preservation by libraries, archives, and museums? When does copyright law permit you to provide access...
View ArticleData Librarian Conference Round Up
The June 2017 Data Bites Forum provided an opportunity for librarians to share what they had learned from attending the Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP), IASSIST and other data related...
View ArticleDigital Data in Biodiversity Conference, 6/5-6/6/17
The University of Michigan hosted the inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity conference on June 5-6, 2017. Co-sponsored by NSF’s iDigBio program and the U-M Museums of Zoology, Paleontology, and the...
View ArticleWhat does a Data Workflows Specialist Do Anyways?
We are very pleased to have Susan Borda join the UM-Library as our very first Data Workflows Specialist. What exactly does a Data Workflows Specialist do you ask? Read on...
View ArticlePersonal Digital Archiving Guide Part 2: Media Types and File Formats
Part 2 of the Personal Digital Archiving Guide covers characteristics of digital file formats that you should consider when deciding how to preserve your digital materials.
View ArticleiPres 2018 Call for Contributions
iPres 2018 in Boston releases the initial call for contributions.
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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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