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Engaging with Digital Archives Open Source Communities
Digitalbevaring.dk is a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Denmark license. Image: Jørgen Stamp. In addition to the work we are doing here at the MIT Libraries, we are also engaged with the global...
View ArticleProviding 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...
View ArticleResources for archiving your personal digital data
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...
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Presenting Digital Archives and Preservation Tools and Systems!
Digitalbevaring.dk is a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Denmark license. Image: Jørgen Stamp. In an effort to inform my colleagues and keep myself up to date about the tools and systems we are using...
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Explaining Digital Forensics for Collecting Institutions
As a Charter Member of the BitCurator Consortium, the MIT Libraries in involved in outreach and education about how digital forensics can be used for understanding digital material and making it...
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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...
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Imagining Access to Born-Digital Collections
One option is to let the collections users have it all! In April 2016, I presented at the Radcliffe Workshop on Archival Technology. Shared here are my presentation slides along with a brief...
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Introducing EMMAS – Transitioning from Archivists’ Toolkit to ArchivesSpace
On October 17, 2016 MIT Libraries began using ArchivesSpace ver 1.4.2 in production with two repositories: the Aga Khan Documentation Center (AKDC), which has 10 Resource records and the Institute...
View ArticleKeeping MIT’s Online Presence – Web Archiving
At MIT Libraries, we’ve been building our Web archiving program slowly but to good effect. Here is a brief video of a presentation I prepared for the MIT Libraries Visiting Committee this week. It...
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We’re Hiring!
The MIT Libraries are seeking ambitious and creative archives and special collections professionals advance the Libraries growing needs. This is an exciting time at the MIT Libraries. With the recent...
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