Bits and Pieces

As a fully Open Access institutional data repository, Deep Blue Data was built to serve the best interests of the public, our depositors and their academic communities. We partner with scholars to bring data into the world in a way that is comprehensible, trustworthy and useful.

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.

In this interview, Anja Sheppard, Ph.D. Candidate in Robotics, describes her research with the Field Robotics Group and why she decided to share his data set entitled "Machine Learning for Shipwreck Segmentation from Side Scan Sonar Imagery: Dataset and Benchmark" in Deep Blue Data.

In this interview, Dr. Brandon Ponder, Ph.D., describes his research as a graduate student in the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department and why he decided to share his data set entitled "The Venus Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model (V-GITM): A Coupled Thermosphere and Ionosphere Formulation" in Deep Blue Data.

This Love Data Week, Deep Blue Data celebrates 1,000 curated and published datasets!

Open Access Week 2023 is upon us! The theme this year is "Community over Commercialization."

This theme emphasizes transparency and equitable access to knowledge, which directly aligns with the goals of an institutional repository. Deep Blue Repositories, offered by the University of Michigan Library, facilitates the free and open sharing of research content generated and used in support of research activities at U-M.

We are excited to share the publication of "Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)" Volumes 1 & 2, edited by Michael L. Galaty and Lorenc Bejko, along with the associated data set on Deep Blue Data Repository. See the UM Press blog (https://press.umich.edu/Blog/2023/10/An-Interview-with-Michael-L.-Galaty) for the whole interview!

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.