From jessica at educopia.org Tue Sep 5 14:42:08 2017 From: jessica at educopia.org (Jessica Meyerson) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:42:08 -0500 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] OSSArcFlow: Researching Archival Workflows for Born-Digital Content Message-ID: Greetings Colleagues! Are you actively developing digital curation workflows? Are you working with or are you curious about working with BitCurator, Archivematica, and/or ArchivesSpace? Are you interested in learning more about the tools and procedures that your digital curation colleagues are implementing locally? The OSSArcFlow: Researching Archival Workflows for Born-Digital Content project is a two-year effort funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to investigate, model, and test workflows for born-digital content curation in libraries and archives. To receive OSSArcFlow project updates, share your workflow challenges and successes, and provide feedback on project documentation and guides, sign up for the OSSArcFlow list by visiting https://groups.google.com/a/educopia.org/d/forum/ossarcflow_public or emailing me at jessica[at]educopia[dot]org Background: Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc. will - Document partner institutions? workflows - Develop specific methods and scripts to facilitate the flexible synchronization of archival OSS systems by a variety of collecting institutions - Create and publish training modules and guides that will promote the use of the OSS workflow documentation and scripts These activities will catalyze efforts across the library and archives fields by: - Documenting ways in which institutions of different types and sizes integrate digital curation tools into their workflows - Informing our understanding of curation approaches and priorities, and how those impact the use of digital curation tools and capabilities - Supporting more efficient and effective digital curation programs that ensure ongoing access to our increasingly born-digital legacy Thank you for your time, and we look forward to engaging with you throughout the project! 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Building off of the NDSA publication Checking Your Digital Content, the NDSA Fixity Working Group is conducting a survey of institutions with digital preservation responsibilities to gain insight into how organizations worldwide use various fixity methods to ensure the stability of their digital content and to learn how real-world capacity and best practices differ. The survey is available at https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8IzGON3GTMlPlIx until September 15, 2017. All of the survey questions can be viewed in advance by following the link to this Google PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3EOrsvu2mMsR2U0b1VIZGViMFk/view?usp=sharing If you have questions or concerns about this survey, please contact the NDSA Fixity Working Group at NDSA-FIXITY at lists.clir.org. Thank you for helping NDSA and our community define and advance digital preservation! The NDSA Fixity Survey Working Group -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arthurpasquinelli at gmail.com Fri Sep 8 14:25:08 2017 From: arthurpasquinelli at gmail.com (Arthur Pasquinelli) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:25:08 -0700 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Stanford University LOCKSS Program to Mainstream Distributed Digital Preservation through New Project In-Reply-To: <59B2DF75.4090108@gmail.com> References: <59B2DF75.4090108@gmail.com> Message-ID: <59B2E084.5060706@gmail.com> September 7, 2017 /A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will enable systems to be outfitted with award-winning LOCKSS digital preservation capabilities./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Stanford, CA*--For eighteen years, the Stanford University LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program has supported the digital preservation needs of a diverse and growing community of institutions worldwide. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a major re-architecture effort is currently underway that will enable the unique functionalities of the LOCKSS software to be embedded in other systems for digital content management and preservation, further broadening access to best-in-class digital preservation capabilities. The core of the LOCKSS software is a peer-to-peer data integrity validation and repair mechanism, a feature built upon peer-reviewed research to mitigate the real threats that centralization poses to the long-term persistence of digital information. This and other LOCKSS software elements, including tooling for automated metadata extraction and enhancements for discovery of scholarly communications within web archives, will be made available to the community as documented web services. Integration of these technologies will enhance other digital library, repository, content management and acquisition systems. "More content is destroyed by people's actions than any other means; the LOCKSS technology secures content against this very real threat. Disaggregating LOCKSS components into web services for others to use holds the potential to significantly upgrade preservation treatment levels for a greater amount and a wider variety of content,? notes recently-retired LOCKSS Program Chief Scientist Dr. David S.H. Rosenthal, emphasizing the significance of the project. Nicholas Taylor, LOCKSS Program Manager, says that the upgraded LOCKSS software will advance the preservation of more, and more kinds, of digital content. ?LOCKSS technologies have only ever been applied in LOCKSS networks; the software re-architecture opens up many new possibilities,? says Taylor. ?We?re working to make LOCKSS even more accessible and useful as a general-purpose digital preservation technology solution.? More information about the LOCKSS software components and the re-architecture project will become available over the next year through the LOCKSS Program website (https://www.lockss.org/). ### *About LOCKSS | www.lockss.org* The LOCKSS Program, based at Stanford Libraries, provides libraries, knowledge institutions, and publishers with award-winning, low-cost, mature, open-source tools to preserve and provide access to persistent and authoritative digital content. LOCKSS received the first ever TRAC (Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification) perfect score from the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) for the Technologies, Technical Infrastructure, Security category. It is used by hundreds of institutions, supports the CLOCKSS Archive, and is incorporated into multiple community LOCKSS networks globally. 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These materials were produced under an IMLS-funded project, "Preservation & Curation of ETD Research Data & Complex Digital Objects ". *Please take 2 minutes (promise!) to take the survey below.* Your feedback will help us to refine the workshops and report back to our funder about how and where they are being used: *https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ETDplustoolkit * If you have not looked at the ETD+ Toolkit yet, the links below will take you there! ****** *Background* The ETD+ Toolkit ( https://educopia.org/publications/etdplustoolkit) is an approach to improving student and faculty research output management. Focusing on the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) as a mile-marker in a student?s research trajectory, it provides in-time advice to students and faculty about avoiding common digital loss scenarios for the ETD and all of its affiliated files. The ETD+ Toolkit provides free introductory training resources on crucial data curation and digital longevity techniques. It has been designed as a training series to help students and faculty identify and offset risks and threats to their digital research footprints. About the Toolkit The ETD+ Toolkit is the result of a project (https://educopia.org/research/grants/etdplus) generously funded by the Institute of Library and Museum Services. Educopia Institute led the creation of the Toolkit in partnership with the NDLTD, ProQuest, bepress, and 12 U.S. research libraries. What it is: An open set of six modules and evaluation instruments that prepare students to create, store, and maintain their research outputs on durable devices and in durable formats. Each is designed to stand alone; they may also be used as a series. What each module includes: Each module includes Learning Objectives, a one-page Handout, a Guidance Brief, a Slideshow with full presenter notes, and an evaluation Survey. Each module is released under a CC-BY license and all elements are openly editable to make reuse as easy as possible. Who it is for: Anyone may freely adopt and adapt this toolkit. We especially recommend its use by administrators, faculty, and librarians teaching students and by students seeking practical advice about digital content management. *Katherine Skinner, PhD* Executive Director, Educopia Institute http://educopia.org Working from Greensboro, NC katherine at educopia.org | 404 783 2534 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From SanchezCA at si.edu Mon Sep 18 16:43:56 2017 From: SanchezCA at si.edu (Sanchez, Crystal A.) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:43:56 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] FW: New FADGI Publication: Embedding Metadata in DPX File Headers In-Reply-To: <6da23603265b43e48410fc31546f8fa7@LCXEX02.LCDS.LOC.GOV> References: <6da23603265b43e48410fc31546f8fa7@LCXEX02.LCDS.LOC.GOV> Message-ID: Thought this might be of interest after that great PASIG conference. Crystal Sanchez Smithsonian Institution Digital Asset Management System, OCIO SanchezCA at si.edu 202.633.4489 From: Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group [mailto:FED_DIG_AV at LISTSERV.LOC.GOV] On Behalf Of Murray, Kate Sent: Friday, September 01, 2017 11:27 AM To: FED_DIG_AV at LISTSERV.LOC.GOV Subject: New FADGI Publication: Embedding Metadata in DPX File Headers Please excuse possible duplication of this message across multiple listservs. The FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of an updated version of Guidelines for Embedded Metadata within DPX File Headers for Digitized Motion Picture Film. The guidelines outline FADGI implementations of the SMPTE ST 268 Core fields as well as other elements Strongly Recommended, Recommended or Optional for FADGI use. The 2017 Working Group approved version includes significant revisions received during the public comment period for the 2016 draft version. Updates include a justification about the rationale for embedded metadata and explanations of issues with date/time formatting and data overruns and more. The development of an open source tool to batch embed metadata according to the FADGI guidelines is planned. Comments are always welcome. http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-DPXembedding.html. Best wishes - Kate ******************** Kate Murray Digital Collections & Management Services Library of Congress 202-707-4894 kmur at loc.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From etripp at duraspace.org Wed Sep 20 14:16:47 2017 From: etripp at duraspace.org (Erin Tripp) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:16:47 -0300 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] DuraSpace Migration/ Upgrade Survey: Call for Participation Message-ID: *With apologies for cross posting* Hello, It was great seeing so many of you in Oxford last week. I'm undertaking a survey project over the next four weeks and would like to solicit some help from the PASIG community. I?m collecting anecdotes from people who have undertaken a migration or a major upgrade in the recent past. I hope to collect stories about how the project went, what resources were used or developed during the process, and whether it turned into an opportunity to update skills, re-engage stakeholders, normalize data, re-envision the service, etc. The data will be used by DuraSpace and affiliate open source communities to develop resources that will fill gaps identified by participants. It will also be used in presentations, blog posts, or other communications that will highlight what we can learn from each other to make migration and upgrade projects a more positive experience in the future. The data collection will be done through mediated surveys (interview-style) with me (in person, on the phone, or via Skype). Please express your interest in participating by emailing me at etripp at duraspace.org. Or, if you prefer, you can also fill out the survey online by yourself. The survey will close on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Please note: interviewee names are collected for administrative purposes only and will not appear in any published work unless the permission of the interviewee has been obtained in writing. Here are the survey questions (* denotes a mandatory response): Name Role* Institution What repository software(s) have you migrated from?* What repository software(s) have you migrated to?* Is/are your repository(ies) customized?* If yes, can you tell us how? When did you last undertake a major migration/update? Did customization impact your migration/upgrade?* If yes, tell us how. What were the most significant challenges of the migration/ upgrade process?* Can you elaborate the challenges faced? What were the most significant benefits of the migration/ upgrade process?* Can you elaborate on the benefits? Where there tools or resources that helped you during the process? What element(s) of the project surprised you? What do you wish you knew when you started the project? * What advice would you offer to others who are planning a migration/ upgrade? Is there anything else you?d like to add? Very best, Erin Tripp Business Development Manager Duraspace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Nicole.Contaxis at nyumc.org Thu Sep 21 10:30:21 2017 From: Nicole.Contaxis at nyumc.org (Contaxis, Nicole) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:30:21 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] SPN Education & Training Working Group Recruitment! Message-ID: <8659F68F6EBD9847B1623F91E7418AA655CA18D9@MSGWBDCPMBX35.nyumc.org> Hello all! My name is Nicole Contaxis, and I am the coordinator for the Software Preservation Network (SPN) Education & Training Working Group. For the past two years, the Software Preservation Network (SPN) has been working a comprehensive approach to software preservation through community engagement, infrastructure support, and knowledge generation. As we continue our work, we are looking for new members to help us create training and educational materials and events to spread the word about the need for and the practice of software preservation. Are you one of those new members? Maybe! Do you... * Have an interest in research software/software-dependent cultural heritage? * Want to help design and plan webinars about software preservation practices and use cases? * Want to learn more about what SPN has done and create educational materials on it? * Have ideas about what people should learn about software preservation? Come work with us! SIGN UP for the Education & Training Working Group: https://goo.gl/forms/WN7tLPue3TzyE1E03 Feel free to contact me with any questions! 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URL: From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Tue Sep 26 01:17:38 2017 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:17:38 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] APPLY TODAY for 1st cohort for online Master's in Digital Curation from UNC-Chapel Hill Message-ID: Please excuse cross postings. Become a leader in the emerging field of digital asset management with the new Professional Science Master's (PSM) degree in Digital Curation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This 31-credit, 100% online program is the first master's degree in North America focused on digital curation. Students will have the opportunity to work with world-renowned faculty members from UNC's top-ranked information school, including Dr. Helen Tibbo, Dr. Christopher (Cal) Lee, and Dr. Arcot Rajasekar. Graduates of this program will benefit from UNC's longstanding reputation as an international leader in digital curation and data management. Applications for January enrollment is now open with following cohorts starting in May and August, 2017. Learn more at https://sils.unc.edu/programs/psm-digital-curation. Hope to see you online! Please forward to anyone you think might be interested. -Helen Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor, SILS Digital Curation Program Director, & Society of American Archivists, President 2010-2011 and Fellow School of Information and Library Science 211 Manning Hall, CB# 3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 1+ 919 418 4557 Fax: 1+ 919 962 8071 tibbo at email.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arthurpasquinelli at gmail.com Tue Sep 26 13:32:26 2017 From: arthurpasquinelli at gmail.com (Arthur Pasquinelli) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:32:26 -0700 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] SWORDV3 Project - Stakeholder Call Message-ID: <59CA8F2A.1010006@gmail.com> SWORDV3 Project - Stakeholder Call The SWORD protocol was created in 2007 to allow simple machine-to-machine deposit of papers into repositories. Approximately five years later, SWORDV2 added the ability to update previously transferred objects along with more use-case specific extensions to AtomPub. The SWORDV3 project has been funded by Jisc with two key aims for the next generation of the SWORD Protocol: To bring SWORD up-to-date with the developments in the repository sphere in the last 5 years, with alignment to new protocols such as OAI-ResourceSync and new use-cases such as data publishing and complex objects. To establish community and governance mechanisms for the standard and supporting code libraries to ensure ongoing maintenance and evolution. This will include a technical validation process to allow third party libraries to be hosted under the SWORD brand. The project was formally announced at PASIG 2017 in Oxford and the RDA 10th Plenary in Montreal in the last two weeks. We are looking for expressions of interest in becoming involved as stakeholders in the project: to make suggestions, review activities and meet as required over the coming months. In particular, we are interested in making contact with people who may wish to develop SWORD V3 libraries for their preferred platforms or languages since we aim to provide some support for such activities during the project. Please contact one of the project team (ideally by mid-October) if you are interested in participating, and indicate if you are interested in the technical or community aspects of the project (or both!). The key members of the project team are: Dom Fripp - Jisc (Funder) - Project Manager, SWORD user through the Jisc Research Data Shared Service Richard Jones - Cottage Labs Ltd - Technical Lead, SWORD contributor and implementer Neil Jefferies - Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford - Community Lead, SWORD user through Data2paper project (and internally within the Bodleian Library) On the technical side, we are creating a document that brings together the change requests and new use cases that have collected since the release of SWORDV2, culled from the github site, message posts and preliminary discussions with some stakeholders earlier this year. This has also suggested a way forward that breaks with SWORD?s AtomPub roots in order to provide a more up-to-date and flexible protocol. We will circulate this to stakeholders soon. On the community side, we will circulate a similar document outlining possible models for developing the SWORD community in the future. This is a much more open set of choices since the SWORD user-base has expanded considerably since its first conception, and we are open to further suggestions! The final arrangements must be aligned with community wishes in order to be an effective sustainable solution. Neil Jefferies (neil.jefferies[at]bodleian.ox.ac.uk) Dom Fripp (dom.fripp[at]jisc.ac.uk) Richard Jones (richard[at]cottagelabs.com) From gail at trumantechnologies.com Wed Sep 27 21:36:16 2017 From: gail at trumantechnologies.com (gail at trumantechnologies.com) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:36:16 -0700 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] OAIS and Distributed Digital Preservation in Practice - iPRES preso/vimeo info Message-ID: <20170927183616.b554e26909f2beaf9f8ddbf6be9a6600.82b5559a4c.wbe@email09.godaddy.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arthurpasquinelli at gmail.com Fri Sep 29 12:20:11 2017 From: arthurpasquinelli at gmail.com (Arthur Pasquinelli) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:20:11 -0700 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] University of Oklahoma Libraries conducts first multi-state, multi-campus, curated VR class In-Reply-To: <09DC5837-6D9C-4B58-8B5B-87165382CD15@ou.edu> References: <09DC5837-6D9C-4B58-8B5B-87165382CD15@ou.edu> Message-ID: <3CBA63E2-13B7-417F-B6D3-D1AB844D85B8@gmail.com> MEDIARELEASE For Immediate Release September 28, 2017 University of Oklahoma Libraries conducts first multi-state, multi-campus, curated VR class NORMAN ? The University of Oklahoma Libraries is pleased to announce that they?ve conducted what is believed to be the first multi-state, multi-campus, curated virtual reality class. The Innovation @ the Edge, located in the University of Oklahoma Libraries, is a pioneer in developing pedagogical and research content for virtual reality headsets. (The Innovation @ the Edge was recently recognized by Campus Technology as an ?Education Futurist? award winner, one of only two in the country). During this VR class, partner institutions, including two separate physical locations at University of Central Oklahoma, Archaeology Southwest and University of Arizona, Tucson (both in Arizona) and two separate physical locations at the University of Oklahoma along with a session leader in a home office, connected in shared virtual reality space, bringing together 15 people total in order to tour a cave with rare archaic cave art that is located on private land and is otherwise inaccessible to the public. Doug Gann, Preservation Archaeologist and Digital Media Specialist of Archaeology Southwest, located in Tucson, Arizona, was granted permission by the private owner of the cave to have one of his team members enter this very fragile cave and take over 700 pictures. These pictures were loaded and using photogrammetry, a technique of 3D model creation that combines the information from two-dimensional digital images to produce three-dimensional data points resulting in highly detailed physical structures and textures, which are then used to make a virtual reality experience that essentially duplicates physically touring the cave. By creating this 3D model, the details of the cave's surface, including a number of ancient stone engravings, could be analyzed in ways that are otherwise impossible including such means as digitally adjusting the cave's lighting or zooming in on the cave's walls. One archaeology student, after experiencing the class, noted that they would like to now do their thesis using virtual reality in this kind of work. Doug Gann, noted that while enhancements are needed, he was ?completely blown away by how well the system works and is now looking forward to future developments.? ?The OU Libraries is continuing to earn the designation of ?Education Futurist,? said Carl Grant associate dean of libraries and chief technology officer. ?Our team is helping to show how the future of education might be reshaped using these exciting new technologies. We have follow-up events planned, which will feature a range of unique content, along with experts from universities nationwide. We are eager to move the adoption of this technology forward in classroom and research settings across the country.? The University of Oklahoma Libraries is the largest research library in Oklahoma, containing more than 6 million volumes and over 4 million other digital and physical resources. 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