On July 1st, Digital POWRR formally entered Phase 3 of its work thanks to generous grant funding from the IMLS‘s Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. Project staff are currently in the thick of planning and organizing the five two-day long professional institutes that will be held over the course of the next two years. The Institutes …
Tag: digital preservation
Dec 11 2013
ANADP II part 9: Winning Poster Talks, Current Opportunities for Collaboration
Poster sessions at ANADP II were part of a contest. The three winners were Paul Wheatley (COPTR), Cal Lee (UNC), and Neil Grindley.
Each was asked to do a lightning talk, and then we moved into discussing current opportunities for collaboration.
Neil Grindley: 4Cproject.eu Digital Curation as an investment– realizing the value of assets via …
Dec 04 2013
ANADP II, part 2: Day 1
Day 1 of the ANADP II conference began with opening remarks from Martin Halbert.
- He noted that the conference was intended to be not just presentations but engagement of community in exploring collaborative opportunities — promoting voluntary alliances, not top-down.
- The first conference (ANADP I) was an experiment… and so is this one.
- The …
Dec 03 2013
What we did in Barcelona, or, A trip to ANADP II [part 1]
From November 18-21, POWRR Project Director Jaime Schumacher and I were privileged to attend the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II (ANADP II) Event in Barcelona, Spain. We submitted a poster proposal at the behest of Martin Halbert, who is one of the advisors for the POWRR project grant.
We were scheduled to present …
Sep 12 2013
Testing A Piece of Digital Preservation Management Software: Day One Thoughts
As our intrepid readers know, we are now entering the testing phase of our project. Want to see where we are? Check out the wiki.
So, I attempted to test my first piece of software today. Keep in mind that this is end-user style testing, where my goal was to launch the installed software on …
Jun 18 2013
Where is the practical digital preservation research? Some here.
Today the NDIPP blog asked “Where is applied digital preservation research”?
*stands up*
We’re right here.
The Digital POWRR project is focused on pragmatic, practical, sustainable digital preservation for smaller and medium sized libraries and cultural heritage organizations. We know we need to do this, but the resources, and sometimes the knowledge, are tough to …
May 02 2013
What Are Your Digital Preservation Roadblocks?
Working on large initiatives like digital preservation often feels like being in a car on a bumpy road under construction. There are lots of stops and starts. It’s “hurry up and wait.”
One of the things we’ve come across here on the Digital POWRR project that we weren’t expecting are some technical roadblocks. Specifically, that …
Apr 09 2013
Preservation Exhibit at NIU
With Preservation Month just around the corner we have put together a Preservation Exhibit here at NIU that covers both physical and digital preservation. We would like you to see a little preview of what has come together, and in the future we hope to also adapt the exhibit into an online version. We’ll keep …
Apr 03 2013
Do it anyway.
I’ve been thinking about this song lately. Not just because I’m a fan of the Muppets and enjoy Ben Folds (although both of these things are absolutely true).
But because keeping up with digital preservation, all of the tech, all of the news, all of the projects is hard.
I just want to …
Mar 04 2013
A Cry From the Trenches: Fighting the Ongoing War with Digital Obsolescence One Day at a Time
I’ve lost track of how many “OH CRAP!” moments I have experienced in my short career. As the Digital Collections Curator at Northern Illinois University, I have seen some pretty gnarly (digital) things. Things that have really hammered home for me the importance of the research work we are doing on the Digital POWRR project.
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