SXSWi: You’re Dead, Your Data Isn’t: What Happens Now?
This five person panel at SXSW Interactive 2011 tackled a broad range of issues related to what happens to our online presence, assets, creations and identity after our death. Presenters: Adele McAlear...
View ArticleRescuing 5.25″ Floppy Disks from Oblivion
This post is a careful log of how I rescued data trapped on 5 1/4″ floppy disks, some dating back to 1984 (including those pictured here). While I have tried to make this detailed enough to help anyone...
View ArticleDay of Digital Archives
To be honest, today was a half day of digital archives, due to personal plans taking me away from computers this afternoon. In light of that, my post is more accurately my ‘week of digital archives’....
View ArticleCURATEcamp Processing 2012
CURATEcamp Processing 2012 was held the day after the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) sponsored...
View ArticleThe CODATA Mission: Preserving Scientific Data for the Future
This session was part of The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation conference and aimed to describe the initiatives of the Data at Risk Task Group (DARTG), part of the...
View ArticleCountdown to Partners for Preservation
Yes. I know. My last blog post was way back in May of 2014. I suspect some of you have assumed this blog was defunct. When I first launched Spellbound Blog as a graduate student in July of 2006, I...
View ArticleChapter 4: Link Rot, Reference Rot and the Thorny Problems of Legal Citation...
The fourth chapter in Partners for Preservation is ‘Link Rot, Reference Rot and the Thorny Problems of Legal Citation’ by Ellie Margolis. Links that no longer work and pages that have been updated...
View ArticleChapter 6: Accurate Digital Colour Reproduction on Displays: from Hardware...
The sixth chapter in Partners for Preservation is “Accurate Digital Colour Reproduction on Displays: from Hardware Design to Software Features” by Dr. Abhijit Sarkar. As the second chapter in Part II:...
View ArticleChapter 7: Historical Building Information Model (BIM)+: Sharing, Preserving...
Chapter 7 of Partners for Preservation is ‘Historical Building Information Model (BIM)+: Sharing, Preserving and Reusing Architectural Design Data’ by Dr. JuHyun Lee and Dr. Ning Gu. The final chapter...
View ArticleChapter 9: Sharing Research Data, Data Standards and Improving Opportunities...
Chapter 9 of Partners for Preservation is ‘Sharing Research Data, Data Standards and Improving Opportunities for Creating Visualisations’ by Dr. Vetria Byrd. This is the second chapter of Part III:...
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