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Going to MARAC!
I hope to see anyone and everyone at MARAC next weekend! I'll try to post some updates like I did last year, even if I am able to tweet this year.
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Disappearing documents, Archives Team, Facebook, and more: Link roundup 10/4/11
This time, on the link roundup, there are disappearing documents, distributed digital archives projects, inaccurate quilts, government records, and more!
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Link roundup, 9/30/2011
Hi all! I am going to start posting a roundup of interesting archives/library/information science related links. Hopefully this will be at least weekly. Today's installment includes Henry Rollins, sexy archivists, QR codes, a concerto, and more!
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The intersection of soccer and archives
As some of you may be aware, I am a bit of a soccer nut. I'm a fan of DC United and the Men's and Women's United States National Teams. Last summer, I created a new twitter account for my soccer ramblings, just so
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Things I might have tweeted, part 6: digitizing oral histories #marac
Jennifer Synder, AAA Uses Sound Directions from IU. Pet peeve of mine: gold "archival" cds. They are no more reliable than regular cds, cost more, and give you a false sense of security. If you need cds, for whatever reason, just use regular cds. Vendor continuity and relationships
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Things I might have tweeted, part 5: Rights, reproductions, and reality #marac
Sorry that I didn't post from the last session yesterday, my phone died. But I may post a real blog entry about it later. Anyways, here us Rights, Reproductions, and Reality. A google group about this topic: marac rights and reproductions. The panel wants a discussion forum for
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Things I might have tweeted, part 4: new developments in describing av materials #marac
Jane Otto, Rutgers: Av description in a digital repository. New Jersey Digital Highway is the digital repository for all of nj.OpenWMS is the platform that they use. Web based and.open source. Uses the METS metadata schema. Descriptive metadata is MODS, which is MARC-lite, but extended by the institution.
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Things I might have tweeted, part 3: New tools to address electronic records challenges #marac
Peter Bajcsy, National Cenyer for Supercomputing Applications: What do you do if you come accross an unsupported file format? Move the file, get a new format from the creator, or buy the software. Presidential erecords: reagan, 200k, clinton, 33 million, gwb, 300 million. Almost 80k different file name extensions. We
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Things I might have tweeted, part 2: Rand Jimerson at #marac
The plenary speaker for MARAC is Rand Jimerson, suthor of Archives Power. Here is what I might have tweeted: Students from the University of Kentucky are at my table. They like what marac doea more than their own organization. Archival Ethics and the Call for Justice is the title of
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Things I might have tweeted, part 1
The hotel in which MARAC is being held is in Alexandria, Va., and happens to be made of lead. Or, at least, that is how it seems, because if you take more than 2 steps away from a window, all connections drop out. When I go outside, my connection is
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A journey through copyright for sound recordings
Recently I was looking for some music to use for a project a friend of mine is working on. I wanted to either use something public domain or something using a Creative Commons license, and not even try to navigate the waters of "fair use." Librarians and archivists
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A sidelong look into the world of special collections dealers
First of all, if you're not listening to This American Life, whether or the radio or in podcast form, you should start. But this past week's episode, entitled Original Recipe, gives us a sidelong glimpse into the mindset of special collections dealers. As should become very