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flickr, digital curation and the web

Thursday, July 9, 2009

The Library of Congress has started to put selected content from Chronicling America into Flickr as part of the Illustrated Newspaper Supplements set. More details on the rationale and process involved can be found in a FAQ on the LC Newspapers and Current Periodical Reading Room website.
So for example this newspaper page on Chronicling [...]

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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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bagit and .deb

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

I’m just now (OK I’m slow) marveling at how similar BagIt turned out to be to the Debian Package Format. Given some of the folks involved, this synchronicity isn’t too surprising.
Both .deb and BagIt use a directory ‘data’ for bundling the files in the package (well .deb has it as a compressed file data.tar.gz). [...]

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resource maps and site maps

Friday, August 1, 2008

Andy reminds me that a relatively simple idea (I think it was David’s at RepoCamp) for the OAI-ORE Challenge would be to create a tool that transformed OAI-ORE resource maps expressed as Atom into Google Site Maps. This would allow “repositories” that exposed their “objects” as resource maps, to easily be crawled by Google and [...]

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RepoCamp recap

Monday, July 28, 2008

So RepoCamp was a lot of fun. The goal was to discuss repository interoperability–and at the very least repository practitioners got to interoperate, and have a few beers afterwards. Hats off to David Flanders who clearly has got running these events down to a fine art.
I finally got to meet Ben O’Steen after bantering [...]

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