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Category Archives: preservation

version control and digital curation

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

For some time now I have been meaning to write about some of the issues related to version control in repositories as they relate to some projects going on at $work. Most repository systems have a requirement to maintain original data as submitted. But as we all know this content often changes over time–sometimes immediately. [...]

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ipres, iipc, pasig roundup/braindump

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

I spent last week in San Francisco attending 3 back-to-back conferences: the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES), International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), and the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG)…thanks to the Library of Congress and to Kesa Summers for letting me go. Also, thanks to the 3 conferences for [...]

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digital-curation

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Some folks at LC and CDL are trying to kick-start a new public discussion list for talking about digital curation in its many guises: repositories, tools, standards, techniques, practices, etc. The intuition being that there is a social component to the problems of digital preservation and repository interoperability. Of course NDIIPP (the arena for the [...]

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