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Digital Archives Ecosystem Evolves

We have been continuing our efforts for addressing the evolving MIT Libraries infrastructure, our archival content, and tools that have been further developed.  Two areas that we’ve been recently engaged with are Web archiving and email archiving and so have updated this diagram to note tools that we are assessing and thinking about how tools […]

Providing Reference to Disk Images

This month I received a reference request that involved a digital collection we acquired some months back.  It’s not an unusual type of reference question but I thought I’d blog about it as a use case for digital archives. The request came from the office of origin so we provided the reference directly. The requestor […]

Engaging with Digital Archives Open Source Communities

In addition to the work we are doing here at the MIT Libraries, we are also engaged with the global community of archivist and preservation folks developing open source tools for digital archives, digital forensics, and digital preservation.  Here are a few of the ways in which we are participating in communities to enhance, improve, […]