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Metadata For Digital Preservation: The Cedars Outline Specification

The Cedars Project, a Higher Education initiative funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee, based at Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Leeds, has posted online its "outline specification for metadata to ensure long-term preservation for digital materials." The 33-page .pdf document details the Project's approach to preserving data as part of the Cedars Demonstrator Project and...

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cedars/guidance/metadata.htm...
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial

The World Wide Web gives us an unprecedented opportunity to provide people around the globe with access to significant historical and cultural works. However, the Web, by its very nature, requires those works to be in some electronically transmittable form before they can be made available, and most historical documents, by their very nature, are in a form well-removed from the computerized world...

http://preservationtutorial.library.cornell.edu/
National Digital Stewardship Alliance

Started as an initiative of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is a "collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of citizens now and in the future." Some of the...

https://ndsa.org/
National Film Preservation Foundation: The Film Preservation Guide

No doubt many organizations and institutions have a canister of 16MM film lying around someplace and some diligent member of their organization might ask: "How can we preserve this item?" A very astute question, and this helpful guide from the National Film Preservation Foundation provides substantial guidance and assistance. The 121-page guide describes methods for handling, duplicating, making...

https://www.filmpreservation.org/preservation-basics/the-fil...
New-Model Scholarship: How Will it Survive?

This important 55-page report originated out of meeting held in 2002 by the Council on Library and Information Resources that brought together scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers, and other concerned parties to discuss the preservation of digital scholarly resources. Authored by Abby Smith (March 2003), this timely work is informed by these discussions, and offers some initial appraisals...

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.115...
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Personal Digital Archiving

Somewhere you might have a treasured store of old family photos and letters left from your parents or grandparents. We treasure these memories of loved ones, which are often passed down through generations. But increasingly, we rely on digital tools and resources to safe keep our memories on a blog, our photos on a smart phone, or our correspondence in email. How can we ensure that these memories...

https://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/
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The Bit List of Digitally Endangered Species

Endangered species are not confined to the animal kingdom, as the BitList of Digitally Endangered Species reminds us. Since its feature in the 12-07-2018 Scout Report, the resource's Digital Preservation Coalition has released a second edition, "The BitList 2019." Have you ever wondered about the life expectancy of various forms of digital media? The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) curates a...

https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/champion-digital-preserva...
The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data: Final Report

This newly released report is the product of a 22-month UC Berkeley study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL), a two-year experimental collaboration between seven cultural repositories and seven universities that distributed approximately 10,000 images for classroom use and individual research. The report found that, while the higher education community is enthusiastic about...

http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/imaging/1998mellon/mellon_...
Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)

The Indiana University Digital Library Program recently unveiled this collection of American fiction that attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes "works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in...

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/TEIgeneral/welcome.do?brand=...
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