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December 19, 2018
The Maintainers (subcontract)
Many groups and individuals today celebrate “innovation.” The notion is influential not only in engineering and business, but also in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For example, “innovation” has become a staple of analysis in popular histories – such as Walter Isaacson’s recent book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks … Continue reading The Maintainers (subcontract)
December 19, 2018
Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
Mapping Scholarly Communication Infrastructure is an effort to study the current state of digital scholarship infrastructure in the U.S. and to help envision a more modernized and sustainable system that would enhance scholarly communication at colleges, universities, and research libraries across the country. With a grant from The Andrew Mellon Foundation (see press release) from … Continue reading Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
December 19, 2018
Environmental Scan of Government Information and Data Preservation Efforts and Challenges
Authored by Sarah K. Lippincott, and published by Educopia Institute in December 2018, this report documents current digital preservation activities and digital preservation gaps in the government information ecosystem, providing a detailed analysis of the organizations, services, and infrastructures currently in place to preserve government information. This report is an output of the Preserving Electronic Government Information … Continue reading Environmental Scan of Government Information and Data Preservation Efforts and Challenges
December 17, 2018
Grassroots Formation
In 2014, my colleague Zach Vowell and I proposed a consortial model for long-term access to software and software-dependent data – we called it the “Software Preservation Network” (SPN). A year later, our institutions, California Polytechnic State University and the University of Texas at Austin, were awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services National … Continue reading Grassroots Formation
November 7, 2018
Community Cultivation, Revisited
I actually tried to stand in the way of Educopia’s founding! I’m the first to admit it. A dozen years ago, I was the naysayer. I really didn’t think we could sustain a nonprofit organization centered on the science of community and collaboration. I didn’t lack conviction that our field needed a more rigorous, structured … Continue reading Community Cultivation, Revisited
November 3, 2018
Community Cultivation — A Field Guide
Issued by Educopia Institute in November 2018, Community Cultivation — A Field Guide provides a powerful lens that can provide both emerging and established communities with ways to understand, evaluate, and plan their own growth, change, and maturation. The Field Guide is designed for use by directors, managers, facilitators, governance bodies, officers, and staff members. … Continue reading Community Cultivation — A Field Guide
October 15, 2018
Workflows for Curating Born-Digital Content: Reports from the OSSArcFlow Project
Our Takeaways (so far) Determine the commonalities of each process and simplify the workflows as much as possible (but beware oversimplification). Greater clarity concerning the needs of each type of materials and the levels of complexity necessary. Necessity to gain LAMP/Linux knowledge to better collaborate with our partners in maintenance and troubleshooting. Collaboration is truly … Continue reading Workflows for Curating Born-Digital Content: Reports from the OSSArcFlow Project
September 24, 2018
OSSArcFlow: What Differences Make a Difference?
The Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) project brings together researchers, developers of 3 major OSS digital stewardship systems, and digital stewards at 12 partner institutions from across the US. The project seeks to document existing digital curation workflows, investigate how OSS systems integrate into these workflows, develop handoffs between these systems, and to identify … Continue reading OSSArcFlow: What Differences Make a Difference?
September 14, 2018
Where Does Digital Forensics Fit in the Digital Curation Workflow? Reports from OSSArcFlow
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., are investigating, synchronizing, and modeling a range of workflows to increase the capacity of libraries and archives to curate born digital content. These archival workflows will incorporate three leading … Continue reading Where Does Digital Forensics Fit in the Digital Curation Workflow? Reports from OSSArcFlow
September 13, 2018
Educopia Institute Annual Report 2017
At Educopia, we believe in the power of connection, collaboration, and co-creation. Spanning boundaries, sectors, and fields, we use Educopia’s community cultivation model to unite people and institutions around shared challenges in digital preservation, scholarly communications, and continuing education. We help organizations work collectively to ensure knowledge is sustainably produced, widely shared, and preserved. Educopia’s … Continue reading Educopia Institute Annual Report 2017
September 5, 2018
Nexus LAB: Curriculum
Enter Curriculum About the Curriculum The Nexus LAB team, in partnership with Toolkit Consulting, issued this fully adaptable and customizable set of seven leadership-focused curriculum modules in 2017. These modules are freely available for trainers and workshop leaders to adopt, adapt, and use when delivering leadership development and training offerings. This curriculum development was made … Continue reading Nexus LAB: Curriculum
September 5, 2018
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)plus Toolkit
Enter Toolkit Training Students to manage ETD+ research outputs The ETD+ Toolkit is an approach to improving student and faculty research output management. Focusing on the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) as a mile-marker in a student’s research trajectory, it provides in-time advice to students and faculty about avoiding common digital loss scenarios for the … Continue reading Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)plus Toolkit
July 24, 2018
Scaling Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) (subcontract)
The use of born-digital information requires ongoing support of underlying software that supports its application; a dependency that is challenged by the complexity of digital environments and the inherent obsolescence of developing technologies. In response, many organizations are engaged in the collection and preservation of software. However, no single organization can collect all of the … Continue reading Scaling Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) (subcontract)
July 24, 2018
BitCuratorEdu
Quick Links to Project Deliverables: BitCurator Guide for Educators BitCuratorEdu Learning Objects What are the Barriers to Teaching Digital Forensics? (Blog Post) BitCuratorEdu Educators’ Summit BitCuratorEdu Workshops and Conference Presentations About the Project: The BitCuratorEdu project is a three-year effort funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study and advance the … Continue reading BitCuratorEdu
July 24, 2018
Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training
The Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training project engaged in multi-stakeholder scenario planning and developed a shared vision for expanding and supporting digital curation and preservation training. The project contributed to the continued growth of the National Digital Platform by strengthening and improving the sustainability of digital curation training resources available to librarians, archivists, and … Continue reading Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Odum Institute
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Odum Institute
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: New York University
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: New York University
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Stanford University Libraries
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Stanford University Libraries
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Woodson Research Center, Rice University
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Woodson Research Center, Rice University
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: New York Public Library
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: New York Public Library