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Digital Collections: Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has released a groundbreaking online collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States available to a global audience. As the largest communal art project in the world, the AIDS Memorial Quilt […]
Digital Preservation: “Act Now to Stop Millions of Research Papers From Disappearing”
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing, Reports
From a Nature Editorial: Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. Eve sampled more than seven million articles with unique digital object identifiers (DOIs), a […]
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI): “Infra Finder Grows: 90+ Open Infrastructures Now Available”
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation
From an Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Post: Open infrastructure — shared systems and resources supporting the creation, sharing, and preservation of research output and knowledge — is becoming increasingly crucial in the rapidly evolving world of research and scholarship. However, navigating this complex and dynamic landscape can be challenging for institutions and organizations. [Clip] […]
Digital Preservation: PLOS Partners with CLOCKSS to Safeguard its Journals
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Preservation, Public Libraries, Publishing
From a Joint Announcement: As we navigate the digital age, the landscape of academic and scientific publishing has transformed. The convenience of digital formats allows for quicker dissemination and wider access to scholarly work, but this shift also presents challenges. Unlike traditional print media, digital content faces risks such as technological obsolescence, data corruption, platform […]
Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC): The ‘Bit List’ of Digitally Endangered Species 2024: Interim Report Identifies Significant Little Change To Risk Profile Prompting Renewed Calls For Action
| Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation
From the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC): The DPC has released its 2024 interim report on the Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Species today, for World Digital Preservation Day on 7th November. Fundamentally, the purpose of the Bit List is advocacy, bringing attention to at-risk data and providing independently verified evidence to support action and investment. Entries are […]
Digital Collections: National Archives (NARA) Digitizes Thousands of Images for Russell Lee Exhibit
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, News
From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The exhibition Power & Light: Russell Lee’s Coal Survey debuted at the National Archives in Washington, DC, on March 16, but the entire archival series is substantially larger than the 200 images on display. Archivists recently completed a months-long project to make the entire catalog digitally available to the public. […]
The Center for Research Libraries Selects TIND Digital Archive
| Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
From a TIND News Release: The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has selected TIND Digital Archive to transfer and host its vast digital collection of more than 40 million files. By moving to TIND DA’s robust and scalable platform, CRL seeks to improve the discoverability and long-term preservation of these materials. Migrating from a locally created […]
GPO Makes Available Thousands of New U.S. Congressional Serial Set Volumes
| Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Reports
From the US Government Publishing Office: U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added more than 3,000 volumes of the containing more than 45,000 individual documents and reports to GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This comes as part of a multi-year effort with the […]
NARA: “Kenvi Phillips, New Obama Library Director, Puts Emphasis on Access”
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The first primarily digital Presidential Library presents an exciting opportunity to broaden outreach and increase access to the records, according to the Barack Obama Presidential Library’s first permanent director. Dr. Kenvi Phillips took up her duties on June 16, 2024. Three months into her tenure, she talked to National […]
How AI Companies Accidentally Made Their Chatbots Worse; US Copyright Office Spanish Language Program Broadens Access to Copyright Information; & More Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
AI OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a Canvas (via WIRED) How AI Companies Accidentally Made Their Chatbots Worse (via IEEE Spectrum) Brown University Library Brown University Library Releases Multimodal Publication Centered on Consent, Introduces New Form of Visual Literacy Copyright Creative Commons Joins Re:Create (via Re:Create) Copyright Office Spanish Language Program Broadens […]
