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Temporal Context in Digital Preservation
Temporal context is an important and much overlooked aspect of preservation. Users of preserved information need a way of using that information in its original context. Many born-digital documents are not isolated and complete in themselves, but are part of a network of documents. Providing temporal context means preserving the context of a document at […]
Examples of challenges of web-harvesting for digital preservation
Have you ever wondered why preserving web-published information is a complex task? Here are three examples of what makes “web harvesting” a difficult and inexact method of digital preservation. Keystone XL Pipeline: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) To preserve this page intact, one would have to collect a total of 13 urls: 7 images, […]
Check out the @RadReference anti-surveillance zine
Hey, check out the new, hot-off-the-presses Radical Reference anti-surveillance zine! It’s chock full of information to keep individuals and libraries safe in our ubiquitous surveillance world. It’s under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA license so feel free to print and hand them out in your library. Ever since the events of September 11th, something […]
2 upcoming events for docs librarians: CRL’s Leviathan & GODORT panel @ #GPODLC14
We just wanted to give everyone a heads-up about two upcoming events of import for documents librarians. This thursday and friday (april 24-25, 2014) in Chicago is “Leviathan,” the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Spring forum on government information. There will be much discussion and agenda-setting for CRL member libraries about how to continue to […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report 4/20/2014
It was a slow week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. SOME STATE DATA SETS AND APPS AVAILABLE FROM DATA.GOV While not in scope for our project, we wanted to note the presence of a States section at data.gov. This page links to state produced data sets, apps, state data […]
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