Today I had the pleasure of contributing to the Radio Boston program, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti and with Bina Venkataraman as her guest. For information about how to preserve your digital data follow-up with these resources: Personal Archiving at the Library of Congress The Signal, blog at the Library of Congress Taking time each year to […]
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 […]
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, […]
A new initiative at the MIT Libraries that the Institute Archives is a partner in with Curation and Preservation Services is the Digital Sustainability Lab. The DS Lab is a physical space in which hardware, software, and workflows are investigated through experimentation and testing to provide the MIT Libraries and the digital archives, digital curation, […]
We’ve been busy the past few months. Take the blog silence for the quiet of busy beavers rather than the absence of activity! As noted in the workflow diagrams, one of the tools that we are assessing both in terms of functionality and how it might fit into our workflows is BitCurator. The BitCurator Team […]
