Bits and Pieces

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.

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.

The first in a series of how-to guides helping you to preserve your personal files and archives!

We are putting together a super sweet lab to handle born-digital content!!

A summary of a risk assessment model as applied to a born-digital archival collection at M Library.

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.

Bits and Pieces is expanding its discussion to include lots about research data!

When a research library creates a position with responsibility for the preservation of digital stuff, where on the organizational hierarchy should that position hang? Is digital preservation an IT job, collections management, or preservation?

Look, we wrote a new post!! This one talks about differences between digital preservation projects and programs, and challenges of building a program that accommodates a wide range of content.

The Wayne State University National Digital Stewardship Alliance Student Chapter will be hosting its 3nd colloquium, “Putting the Pieces Together: Digital Curation, Preservation, and Metadata”, on April 24th from 1:00 – 5:00 pm. You should go!