Bits and Pieces

Updates on our work in digital preservation and research data.
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Box of Altman 3.5 inch floppy disks.
  • Leigh Anne Gialanella
An outline of the workflow developed to image and preserve content from obsolete floppy disks. Part 2 of 2.
Box filled with digital media from the Altman collection
  • Leigh Anne Gialanella
An outline of the workflow developed to image and preserve content from obsolete floppy disks. Part 1 of 2.
Photo of Amiga computer exhibit at the Andy Warhol Museum
  • Scott David Witmer
A report from Pittsburgh on the National Digital Stewardship Alliance's annual conference, Digital Preservation 2017.
  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
iPres 2018 in Boston releases the initial call for contributions.
  • Scott David Witmer
Part 2 of the Personal Digital Archiving Guide covers characteristics of digital file formats that you should consider when deciding how to preserve your digital materials.
  • Jake Carlson
The June 2017 Data Bites Forum provided an opportunity for librarians to share what they had learned from attending the Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP), IASSIST and other data related conferences.
Photo of text reading: "Everything not saved will be lost." Nintendo "Quit Screen" message
  • Scott David Witmer
The first in a series of how-to guides helping you to preserve your personal files and archives!
Beakers
  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
We are putting together a super sweet lab to handle born-digital content!!
  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
A summary of a risk assessment model as applied to a born-digital archival collection at M Library.
  • Amy Neeser
It is common scholarly practice to publish results of research, and it is becoming increasingly more important to share the underlying data. Data sharing allows for the replicability and verification of experimental findings and allow for reuse in new and unexpected ways. Sharing your data may also increase the impact of your research.