Bits and Pieces

In this interview, Dr. Kathy Klinich, research scientist at the UM Transportation Research Institute, describes their research and why they decided to share their data sets entitled "Finite Element Models of Wheelchairs and Associated Components to Support Wheelchair Transportation Research" and "Evaluating Wheelchairs for Potential Use as Aircraft Seating: Test Data."

In this interview, Brian Derstine, research staff analyst with Morphomic Analysis Group in Michigan Medicine, describes their research and why they decided to share their data sets entitled "Dataset for: Relative muscle indices and healthy reference values for sarcopenia assessment using T10 through L5 computed tomography skeletal muscle area" and "Quantification of hepatic steatosis on post-contrast computed tomography scans using artificial intelligence tools [Dataset]" in Deep Blue Data.

In this interview, Dr. Jenna Stolzman, a recent graduate from the Mechanical Engineering PhD program describes their research and why they decided to share his data set entitled “Dataset for: Effects of crosswind and shroud geometry on performance of low-flow, non-assisted flares,” in Deep Blue Data.

In this interview, Dr. María Natalia Umaña describes her research and why she decided to share her data set entitled "Dataset of wood and leaf traits of tropical dry forests seedlings and adults" in Deep Blue Data.

In Web Archiving, do you get just the images or the entire site with most functionality intact?

This blog will cover the process of just getting the image files and related text in Part 1. Part 2 will cover the process of making the JavaScript-enabled site function when run locally, allowing the content to have more meaning by being displayed in context.

In 2024, The U-M Library Digital Preservation Lab uncovered an almost decade-old mistake in our metadata workflow. Luckily, we were able to use this as a learning experience to think about how we can anticipate future changes to metadata formatting standards in the digital archaeology space.

In response to the rise in book challenges in Michigan and across the country, a new web archive has been created to preserve, to the best of our ability, information regarding attempts to change collection development policies in public schools and public libraries.

The 2023 iPres conference at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana brought an international community of digital archivists to the Midwest for a week of sessions that explored a range of digital preservation challenges.

Part two of our ongoing series on getting our dark repository back up and running. This post outlines our approach to moving forward.

In this interview, Dr. Adam Rountrey is the Research Museum Collection Manager (Vertebrates/Plants) and 3D Specialist at the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology (UMMP) describes his research on hormone levels in woolly mammoth and African elephants tusks. Several CT scans of these specimens are available in Deep Blue Data.