Archival Issues
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m not usually one for New Year’s Resolutions, since I end up not keeping them. But I wanted to put out some professional resolutions and hopefully by putting them out in public, I’ll be more likely to keep to them. Those are the four resolutions that I’
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As you may have heard, Facebook has been planning to allow all of its users to download all of their information. At least for my account, that promise has now become a reality. Not only is this good for people concerned with , but this is also good for archivists. Now
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(I originally wrote this a week ago, before this article was posted, but they dovetail well.) In the course of my work I did a brief survey of the copyright policies of some academic libraries and their archives, specifically focusing on websites and finding aids. I found that most libraries
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My systems analysis class, taught by the amazing Stephanie Haas, was all about workflows, both physical and technical. This could be something as simple as the process for checking out at a supermarket or something technical like a system for managing all the aspects of a cohousing community, and all
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I have just started my second full week of work at the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William and Mary. I am the Public Services Archives Specialist, and so I've been (unsurprisingly) doing a lot of things that face the public, in addition to my