Digital Preservation
April 14, 2018
Surfacing Marginalized Voices in the Newspaper Collections of Libraries, Archives, and Museums
The “News on the Margins: Surfacing Marginalized Voices in the Newspaper Collections of Libraries, Archives, and Museums” publication documents the design, methods, results, and recommendations of News on the Margins, a Fall 2017 pilot project funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and undertaken by the Educopia Institute in partnership with the Digital … Continue reading Surfacing Marginalized Voices in the Newspaper Collections of Libraries, Archives, and Museums
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: District of Columbia Public Library
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: Kansas State Historical Society
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: Woodson Research Center, Rice University
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: New York Public Library
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: Mount Holyoke College
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: Duke University
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
January 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow Digital Dossier: Stanford University Libraries
As part of OssArcFlow – a project to investigate, synchronize, and model a range of archival workflows for born-digital content – project partners created digital dossiers outlining the form, function, and future of digital curation at their home institutions.
November 16, 2017
Preserving News on the Margins
Why is this particular project needed? Historic preservation efforts (microfilm projects, etc.) have usually focused on mainstream voices – even if the efforts have been focused on smaller communities Many of you may participate in a statewide newspaper digitization project and/or NDNP. We all LOVE and APPRECIATE those projects, but we realize that ALL projects … Continue reading Preserving News on the Margins
September 1, 2017
Educopia Institute Annual Report 2016
Our mission is to build communities, connect people, and use collective action to advance the creation and dissemination of knowledge. Our passion is to catalyze new types of action by building relationships between groups who need each other but don’t yet know it. In 2016, Educopia convened libraries, archives, museums, publishers, journalists, technologists, and government … Continue reading Educopia Institute Annual Report 2016
August 15, 2017
Failure as process: Interrogating disaster, loss, and recovery in digital preservation
Disaster, loss, and failure preoccupy the minds of many digital preservation professionals and yet, despite the prominence of digital disaster planning guidelines which seem to anticipate failure, there is limited discussion of experience with preservation system or network failures, which are often framed as inevitable in digital preservation. Despite this framing, negative perceptions of failure … Continue reading Failure as process: Interrogating disaster, loss, and recovery in digital preservation
August 1, 2017
News on the Margins: LGBT Newspapers and Periodicals Survey
This is a printable version of the full survey instrument, which may be of use to institutions as they plan their answers. PURPOSE: The purpose of this data collection is to make more visible the corpus of news produced by and for LGBT communities by creating an open, freely available directory of LGBT newspapers and periodicals (print, microfiche, digitized, and … Continue reading News on the Margins: LGBT Newspapers and Periodicals Survey
August 1, 2017
News on the Margins: African American Newspapers and Periodicals Survey
This is a printable version of the survey instrument that may be useful to institutions as they plan to submit their information. PURPOSE: The purpose of this data collection is to make more visible the corpus of news produced by and for African Americans by creating an open, freely available directory of African American newspapers and periodicals (print, … Continue reading News on the Margins: African American Newspapers and Periodicals Survey
September 1, 2016
Educopia Institute Annual Report 2015
Educopia’s premise is clear-cut: modest facilitation helps communities thrive, and thriving communities have ripple effects, impacting their professions and society as a whole. At the close of 2015, I’m so grateful for our many partners and members who have invested in connecting and collaborating across institutional and sector-based boundaries. As we enter our second decade … Continue reading Educopia Institute Annual Report 2015
April 6, 2016
Report from the Repositories & Preservation Workgroup
Repositories are a vital tool in modern information management and a key component of preservation and long-term availability. They are not well-suited, however, to the current challenges posed by our information-rich society and the multitude of stakeholders involved in the modern scholarly publishing system. Strengthening repositories and standardizing preservation processes are critically important. This challenge … Continue reading Report from the Repositories & Preservation Workgroup
June 8, 2015
Scanning the Environment: North Carolina Born Digital News Preservation Practices 2015
What little is known about news preservation practices in the United States is alarming. In 2012, the Pew Research Center’s Project for the Excellence in Journalism cited that already “the emerging world of community online news, less than a decade old, can be difficult to access.” A 2012 survey of news librarians conducted by the … Continue reading Scanning the Environment: North Carolina Born Digital News Preservation Practices 2015
January 28, 2015
ICONC Project Dataset
Within this .zip file are four files pertaining to the ICONC project dataset. An .xls excel workbook holds 13 pivot table report views on individual worksheets, as well the ICONC project’s raw data worksheet. Data report views include: Timeline, Project Lifespans, All State Activity Profiles, State Profile Detail, Activity_Histogram by Type, Activity Listing, Organization Histogram … Continue reading ICONC Project Dataset