What affects the ability of the Library to preserve a given format? These sustainability factors apply to all formats: disclosure, adoption, transparency, self-documentation, external dependencies, impact of patents, technical protection mechanisms.

"FIPPs" a useful idea here.

Working on web projects in a library can be a lot different from traditional corporate, agency-led web projects. In libraries we’re usually working with a fraction of the technical staff: oft…

Even more onthe Potti case.

More on the Potti case.

The following is a guest post by Jody DeRidder, Head of Digital Services at the University of Alabama Libraries.  This post reports on efforts in the digital preservation community that align with the Library’s Digital Preservation Outreach & Education (DPOE) Program. Jody, among many other accomplishments, has completed one of the DPOE Train-the-Trainer workshops and […]

The AVCC Cataloging Toolkit is a set of guidelines and forms to help organizations catalog their audio, video, and film collections quickly and efficiently with the goal of creating a minimal datas…

D-Lib Magazine

D-Lib Magazine

A list of trite and predictable excuses for not opening data, captured by Paul Suijkerbuijk and Ton Zijlstra

Obama's proposed Student Digital Privacy Act aims to limit what schools can do with data collected from apps used in K-12 classrooms. But college students are just as vulnerable to privacy violations.

Smoking gun emerges in the Potti fraud case: a grad student tried to blow the whistle, was silenced.

There is a scarcity of practical guidance for developing data services in an academic library. Data services, like many areas of research, require the expertise and resources of teams spanning many disciplines. While library professionals are embedded into the teaching activities of our institutions, fewer of us are embedded in research activities occurring across the full life cycle. The significant challenges of managing, preserving, and sharing data for reuse demand that we take a more active role. Providing support for funder data management plans is just one option in the data services landscape. Awareness of the institutional and library culture in which we operate places an emphasis on the importance of relationships. Understanding the various cultures in which our researchers operate is crucial for delivering data services that are relevant and utilized. The goal of this article is to guide data specialists through this landscape by providing key resources and strategies for developing locally relevant services and by pointing to active communities of librarians and researchers tackling the challenges associated with digital research data.

Still, participants have saved project organizers $1.5 million.