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NARA Outgrows ARC: Researching New Catalog Software Options
The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) of the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) needs to be replaced. NARA has put out an official Request for Information (RFI) and plans a “Vendor...
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Archivists and New Technology: When Do The Records Matter?
Navigating the rapidly changing landscape of new technology is a major challenge for archivists. As quickly as new technologies come to market, people adopt them and use them to generate records....
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A History of Our Own, Representing Communities and Identities on the Web...
Andrew Flinn, University College London (UCL), was the second speaker during SAA09’s Session 202 with his presentation ‘A History of Our Own, Representing Communities and Identities on the Web’. Flinn...
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SEO Evaluation of an Archival Website: Looking at UMBC’s Digital Collections
Each week brings announcements of archives launching new websites. Today both my email and Twitter told me about University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s new Digital Collections site. Who can resist...
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Topic Modeling, Auto-Classification and Archival Description
In an example of Twitter serendipity, @silverasm‘s (Aditi Muralidharan) tweet pointed me to @historying‘s blog post about Topic Modeling. In this post Cameron Blevins explains the results of using the...
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Gridworks: Super Data Cleanup and Exploration Tool
In my presentation at the Spring 2010 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), Whirlwind Tour of Visualization-Land, I showed some screenshots of a tool called Gridworks. At the time,...
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ArchivesZ Needs You!
I got a kind email today asking “Whither ArchivesZ?”. My reply was: “it is sleeping” (projects do need their rest) and “I just started a new job” (I am now a Metadata and Taxonomy Consultant at The...
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Rescuing 5.25″ Floppy Disks from Oblivion
This post is a careful log of how I rescued data trapped on 5 1/4″ floppy disks, some dating back to 1984 (including those pictured here). While I have tried to make this detailed enough to help anyone...
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Digitization Program Site Visit: University of Maryland
I recently had the opportunity to visit with staff of the University of Maryland, College Park’s Digital Collections digitization program along with a group of my colleagues from the World Bank. This...
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The CODATA Mission: Preserving Scientific Data for the Future
This session was part of The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation conference and aimed to describe the initiatives of the Data at Risk Task Group (DARTG), part of the...
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Chapter 4: Link Rot, Reference Rot and the Thorny Problems of Legal Citation...
The fourth chapter in Partners for Preservation is ‘Link Rot, Reference Rot and the Thorny Problems of Legal Citation’ by Ellie Margolis. Links that no longer work and pages that have been updated...
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Chapter 5: The Internet of Things: the risks and impacts of ubiquitous...
Chapter 5 of Partners for Preservation is ‘The Internet of Things: the risks and impacts of ubiquitous computing’ by Éireann Leverett. This is one of the chapters that evolved a bit from my original...
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Chapter 7: Historical Building Information Model (BIM)+: Sharing, Preserving...
Chapter 7 of Partners for Preservation is ‘Historical Building Information Model (BIM)+: Sharing, Preserving and Reusing Architectural Design Data’ by Dr. JuHyun Lee and Dr. Ning Gu. The final chapter...
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Chapter 10: Open Source, Version Control and Software Sustainability by...
Chapter 10 of Partners for Preservation is ‘Open Source, Version Control and Software Sustainability’ by Ildikó Vancsa. The third chapter of Part III: Data and Programming, and the final of the book,...
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