MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Now Available Online: National Archives at Riverside Collaborates with California Universities to Digitize Chinese Heritage Records
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News
|From a NARA News Report More than 2,200 Chinese Exclusion Act case files held by the National Archives at Riverside are now available online in the National Archives Catalog, thanks to a collaboration with the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California . The project began in 2018 after a fortuitous meeting at a local American Archives Month event. Shortly […]
From The Frick Collection: The Frick Art Reference Library, a preeminent center for art historical research, is marking one hundred years since its opening by looking back at its remarkable history. A new publication, One Hundred Objects in the Frick Art Reference Library, commemorates the occasion through highlights drawn from the library’s extensive collections of […]
Computational Publishing Pilot Project Introduces Partners and Communities
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Preservation, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|From a COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) Blog Post: Our last post on Computational Book Publishing by Simon Bowie kicked off our documentation of this COPIM WP6 Experimental Publishing Pilot Project, which consists of a collaboration between COPIM, the Open Science Lab at the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hanover (working with Simon Worthington as […]
Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2022! Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Launches “Digital Preservation for Small Businesses: An Introductory Guide” & Releases New Revision of BitList of Digitally Endangered Species
Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News, Preservation
|From the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC): Continuing the theme Data For All, For Good, Forever from another celebration – iPres 2022 – World Digital Preservation Day showcases how digital preservation enables digits to flourish. “Data For All, For Good, Forever is a chance to connect practitioners and supporters in celebrating the positive impact digital preservation has had across all parts […]
ALA Invites Applications for $3.5 Million in Grants as Part of Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities & More News Headlines
Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Preservation
|ALA Invites Applications for $3.5 Million in Grants as Part of Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities (via ALA) Cindy Hohl and Eric D. Suess Seek American Library Association Presidency for 2024-25 Term (via ALA) Highlights from NDSA’s Digital Preservation Conference 2022 (via DLF) IOI Launches Fund to Deepen Investment in Open Infrastructure […]
Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Publishes Edition Guide For Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series Live: October 2022
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Open Access, Preservation, Video Recordings
|From CNI: The October 2022 edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series is now live. Comprised of timely videos on projects, events, and other digital information initiatives or related issues of importance, this edition includes seven videos spanning a wide variety of topics, including digital preservation, emerging technologies, privacy, and research data management. Several of the briefings […]
Open Access: Ubiquity Press is Joining the Berlin-Based Academic Publisher De Gruyter
Data Files, Digital Preservation, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From a Joint News Release: Open research publisher and service provider Ubiquity is joining the Berlin-based academic publisher De Gruyter. Moving forward, the two companies will work together closely to advance both publishers’ mission to make academic research globally accessible and discoverable by offering excellent publishing services. Ubiquity was founded by researchers in order to accelerate change […]
From Los Alamos National Laboratories: Los Alamos National Laboratory recently digitized a collection of more than 10,000 cards containing the personnel information of Manhattan Project staff, including famous scientists, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Emilio Segrè and Edward Teller. These nearly 80-year-old cards can now be accessed electronically by Lab archivists after a […]
From the International Publishing Association: Preliminary data collected from the World Intellectual Property Organization’s global survey of publishing activity shows that economic recovery in 2021 extended to the publishing industry: most countries reported higher revenue in 2021, following declines in the first year of the pandemic in 2020. Among the top publishing markets, the US […]
NC State University Libraries Digitizes a Trove of NC Literary Voices
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries
|From NC State University Libraries: Video interviews with many of North Carolina’s most notable authors—including Guy Owen, Lee Smith, Linda Beatrice Brown, Clyde Edgerton, and Gerald Barrax—are now publicly available to watch on the Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) Rare and Unique Digital Collections website. Previously only available on videocassette in the College of Humanities and […]