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The race to preserve disappearing data

Here’s a good piece in the Boston Globe, “The race to preserve disappearing data”. While primarily focusing on the film industry, it also mentions link rot, disappearing government information in the form of Supreme Court decisions and other issues on which government information librarians should be working. I’ve said it often and I’ll say it […]

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Docs of the week: Ferguson Grand Jury, 100 years of INS annual reports, and the historic Moynihan Report

Here at Stanford libraries, my colleague Kris Kasianovitz and I are busy putting context to the *massive* haystack that is the Internet — and we could use some help (want to be a lostdocs collector?!)! Below are just a few of the documents we’ve collected in the last week, stored in our Stanford Digital Repository […]

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Announcing February Digital collection development coffee klatch and IRC howto

Just a heads up that the February virtual coffee klatch will be held on IRC channel #FDLP next Wednesday February 11 at 9am PST / 12 noon EST. We’ll discuss the fugitives collection project that was announced at GODORT Federal Documents Task Force and any other issues you want to bring up connected to digital […]

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“What the Web said yesterday” and IRC chat on digital collection development

The New Yorker has an interesting piece by Jill Lapore, “What the Web Said Yesterday” which explores the issue of internet preservation and highlights the important work being done by the Internet Archive. Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, says we need “digital vellum” or the “twenty-first century will become an informational black hole.” […]

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