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Lunchtime Listen: Born Digital Government Information
Back in April I gave a brief (18 minutes!) talk at the Center for Research Libraries Forum, Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Era of Big Data. Here are the slides and the audio recording of that presentation: Government Records and Information: Real Risks and Potential Losses. The presentation gave me an opportunity to […]
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, […]
Born-Digital U.S. Federal Government Information: Preservation and Access
The paper that I prepared under contract for the Center for Research Libraries is now available: Born-Digital U.S. Federal Government Information: Preservation and Access, March 2014. Prepared by James A. Jacobs for “Leviathan, the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Collections Forum.” [link updated] This is one of several background readings recommended by CRL for […]
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine now includes auto-nominate feature
I’m a long-time supporter of the Internet Archive and user of the IA’s wayback machine. I’ve even got the wayback machine bookmarklet installed on all of my browsers — and highly recommend all of our readers doing so as well! I just went to check the wayback machine for a site that was 404 and […]
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