By Alice Prael As digital storage technology progresses, many archivists are left with boxes of obsolete storage media, such as floppy disks and ZIP disks. These physical storage media plague archives that struggle to find the time and technology to […]
COPTR describes tools useful for long term digital preservation and acts primarily as a finding and evaluation tool to help practitioners find the tools they need to preserve digital data. COPTR is collating the knowledge of the digital preservation community […]
veraPDF is an open source PDF/A validator supported by the PDF industry and funded by the European Union’s PREFORMA project. http://verapdf.org/home/
yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press […]
This is a complete list of all available rOpenSci packages. Packages are grouped by ones that acquire data, full-text of journal articles, altmetrics, data publication, focus on scalable and reproducibile computing, data visualization, data tools, image processing, taxonomy, HTTP tools, […]
Choose an EAD file from your computer to check. See errors that need manual intervention, errors that can be automatically fixed, or all errors. https://eadchecker.lib.harvard.edu/
Connecting the Dots: Using EAC-CPF to Reunite Samuel Johnson and His Circle Created by Enrique A. Diaz, last modified by Susan C. Pyzynski A project to demonstrate the benefits of using Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families […]
For student employees, interns, and new processors who will be processing personal papers and corporate/organizational records in the Rubenstein Library’s Technical Services Dept. By Meghan Lyon A library processing manual in zine format. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B5NFn3rudrDgTk9HXzdUZHNMaUk All files (pdf, booklet, text only) available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B5NFn3rudrDgTk9HXzdUZHNMaUk
xEAC is an open-source XForms-based application for creating and managing EAC-CPF collections. https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC
In January 2015 the Born Digital Working Group was formed to determine how the different libraries and museums can pool resources and expertise to find a path forward for born-digital archival materials. One of the priority goals of the BDWG is to […]