January 22, 2019
Community Validation
After a community has formed and coalesced around a central set of ideas, the next step on the path to maturity is to test the community’s validity. In this crucial “validation” stage, communities often need to strike a careful balance between focusing on continued internal development while simultaneously expanding their external networks of support.
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
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
September 15, 2014
BitCurator Consortium Launches
The Educopia Institute is pleased to announce the launch of the BitCurator Consortium (BCC), a new independent, community-led membership association to support the curation of born- digital materials by libraries, archives, and museums. Members of the BitCurator user community have founded BCC to enhance, promote, and explore this growing area of professional activity. “Managing born-digital … Continue reading BitCurator Consortium Launches
February 6, 2010
A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of volumes describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit. This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a … Continue reading A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation