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This white paper outlines findings from a survey- and interview-based study of software preservation service providers—an expansive category that includes archivists, librarians, preservation specialists, technologists, and other professional roles. The survey and interviews were conducted in 2019 by the SPN Research-in-Practice Working Group. An analysis of the survey and interview data suggests broad support for inter-organizational collaboration in software preservation, despite challenges th...
I recently had the chance to do something that I’ve wanted to do for years: dump an arcade game to add it to MAME. MAME is a massive emulator …
In August 2020, with funding from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS), Ithaka S+R launched an 18-month research project to examine and assess the sustainability of these third-party digital preservation systems. In addition to a broad examination of the landscape, we more closely studied eight systems: APTrust, Archivematica, Arkivum, Islandora, LIBNOVA, MetaArchive, Samvera and Preservica. Specifically, we assessed what works well and the challenges and risk factors these system...
A VBS script for automatically converting Excel files - GitHub - mcgrory/ExcelArchivalTool: A VBS script for automatically converting Excel files
NASIG’s Digital Preservation Committee is pleased to announce publication of the NASIG Model Digital Preservation Policy, an important new tool designed to help you measure, grow, and publicize your organization’s commitment to preserving its scholarship. It includes advice on identifying and taking first steps, more advanced options and activities, and opportunities to share and refine…
Walkthrough tool for assessing risks to digital collections. VERY THOROUGH. Could be the outline for a semesterlong assignment.
Baseline Digital Preservation Advancing Digital Preservation at The U-M Library External Version 1.0 (internal U-M links have been removed) June 23, 2021 The University of Michigan Library Digital Preservation Steering Committee Susan Borda, Noah Botimer, Anne Cong-Huyen, Lauren Havens, Cat...
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear. This month, we’re featuring a few frequently-asked questions posed by local history practitioners during our summer Digital Readiness Fairs. Any advice for getting started with a digitization project? How should we create metadata to allow a... Read More...