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January IAP Sessions at MIT Libraries

During the month of January at MIT there are several IAP (Independent Activities Period) sessions that Institute Archives staff are presenting, which are related to digital archives. We list them here for any MIT affiliate who may be interested in attending and for the general audience to have an idea of some of the outreach […]

Be Prepared … and Flexible

As we are going into the field to collect digital files from people’s homes and offices I am learning what items I should bring with me in my Digital Archivist’s toolbox. Based on our most recent activity, here’s what I’m putting into my travel toolbox: USB drive and CD disk with basic software tools such […]

FIDO Glossary of Terms

As I was looking for information via a Google search I had a happy instance of serendipity and one of the returned hits was to the FIDO project. The document that I was specifically looking at is v1 of a Forensic – Archival Glossary that maps forensic tools, tasks, and processes to the most similar […]