Jan 28 2013
**Disclaimer- No we don’t actually think we (or you) are “dummies” for not knowing this information, even if that is how we may feel. It’s just a catchy title. ; )**
We have all been there at some point in our lives. We set out to get something done and have no idea how to …
Jan 07 2013
The Digital POWRR project team is excited to be working on something we think will be helpful to those of you who are trying to sort out what on EARTH all of the (alleged) digital preservation tools and technologies actually do! It started with a brainstorming session where the team captured every tool/technology/service that we have …
Dec 03 2012
Why are we researching a solution to the digital preservation challenge? This is a great question, mostly because we know that important objects are being stored digitally and we do not want to wait for the disaster to happen before we prepare. Has a digital disaster of data loss already taken place though? The …
Nov 12 2012
One of the (many) things happening in the Digital POWRR project is that each project partner is interviewing a group of users on our individual campuses to see how users manage their own data.
We’re asking questions about what kind of data people create in their daily work, how much of it there is, what …
Oct 09 2012
My oldest book as a kid was one that had been given to me by a dear friend of my grand-parents. It was a large book with a few photographs and thick pages, published in 1867. I still have it today on a shelf. I pick it once in a while to read a few …
Sep 21 2012
As Lynne mentioned in her previous post, the entire Digital POWRR team, from all 5 partner institutions, got together for a marathon-style meeting in August. There was angst. There was gnashing of teeth. There was A LOT accomplished! One item on our agenda was to make a laundry list of questions and …
Sep 14 2012
One of the goals we’ve committed to in our IMLS grant is transparency about the lessons that we are learning along the way. This is the first in what we hope will be a series of “lessons learned” posts that will talk about our experiences.
Lesson 1: It will take longer to …
Aug 13 2012
Historians producing digital objects in the course of their work may be unaware of the need to provide means for their long-term preservation. Although many of us have assumed that digital objects are eternal, they are in fact subject to degradation and decay like any other artifact.
Should digital objects stored on a single server, …
Aug 08 2012
Meg pointed out the whys and wherefores of digital preservation in her last post.
I’m supposed to talk about how.
Of course, since the point of the IMLS grant is to help figure out the “how” for libraries with fewer resources, I’m not going to have all of the answers just yet. We have some …
