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Digital Archiving at the University of York: November 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Friday, 7 November 2014. A non-archivist's perspective on cataloguing born digital archives. As blogged in my previous post. Earlier this week I attended an ARA Section for Archives and Technology. Event on Born Digital Cataloguing. And also had the opportunity to talk about some of the Borthwick's current work in this area. The Archaeology Data Service. A digital archivist may speak a different language to traditional archivists,. But we can work around this.
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: September 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Wednesday, 24 September 2014. To crop or not to crop? Preparing images for page turning applications. How do you prepare digital images of physical archive volumes for display within a web-based page turning application? I thought this was going to be a fairly straight forward question when I was faced with it a couple of months ago. I soon realised that there are many ways of approaching this problem and few standard answers. When photographing material from ...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: December 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Thursday, 18 December 2014. Plugging the gaps: Linking Arkivum with Archivematica. In September this year, Arkivum. Who develop and support the Open Source software Archivematica. Announced that they were collaborating. On a digital preservation system. This is a piece of work that myself and colleagues at the University of York were very pleased to be able to fund. OAIS Functional Entities ( CCSDS 2002. From the start we have favoured a modular approach to a ...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: July 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Monday, 21 July 2014. How much data can you afford to lose? 8220;How often should I back up my data? 8221; is a question I am sometimes asked. There are several answers to this. A bee - one of the rescued digital images. In the fast-paced digital world that we live, backing up our data is often seen as an additional administrative overhead that can fall to the bottom of our overflowing to do list. A makeshift dolls house - another rescued digital image. This w...
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Liberating Information: December 2014
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A blog from Information Services at the University of York. Tuesday, 23 December 2014. Four rules for creating effective (and beautiful) PowerPoint Presentations. How good are your presentation and PowerPoint skills? Ned Potter shares some hints and tips on how to make yours pitch perfect. This is easy to address when you know what matters and where all the useful resources are. One of our Academic Liaison Librarians has created this guide to the four most important rules for creating effective prese...
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Liberating Information: October 2014
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A blog from Information Services at the University of York. Thursday, 30 October 2014. By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. Our Special Collections Librarian, Sarah Griffin. Introduces you to some of the witches who fly through our collections. The Wonder book of Fairy Tales. By A J Johnson 1903. To get us all in the Halloween mood. World turned upside down. C 1800 - click on image to enlarge. Saducismus triumphatus, or a full and. Of Mr Edward Fairfax of Fuystone. The plays of ...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: Improving RDM workflows with Archivematica
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Friday, 17 July 2015. Improving RDM workflows with Archivematica. In a previous post we promised diagrams to help answer the 'How? Of the 'Filling the Digital Preservation Gap' project. In answer to this, here is a guest post by Julie Allinson, Manager of Digital York, who looks after all things Library and Archives IT. Researcher enters dataset metadata into PURE. Library staff check and verify the metadata, and record extra information as needed. DOI is upda...
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Liberating Information: Art from across the globe
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A blog from Information Services at the University of York. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. Art from across the globe. As our Art literature collection continues to expand, Stephen Town adds a splash of diversity to the selection. This week's donations contain an eclectic mix. Of art and illustration. Beach and Koch: King of the World: the Padshahnama. Neil MacGregor: Seeing salvation: images of Christ in Art. Pinkney: William Morris in Oxford. Like Morris, my mother was an Oxford student. Also like Morris, s...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: February 2015
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Wednesday, 18 February 2015. Digital preservation hits the headlines. It is not often that stories directly related to my profession make front page news, so it was with mixed feelings that I read following headline on the front of the Guardian this weekend:. Digital is decaying. The future may have to be print". To give us their archives in their original form. If the files are born digital we would like to receive and archive the digital files. Print...IDCC)...
