The Texas Record

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Each October, Texas joins archival repositories across the nation to celebrate Archives Month and promote the preservation of our country’s documentary heritage. Want to learn how to preserve your personal digital archive? The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has a workshop for that!

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Security expert discovered an exposed database belonging to Shanghai Jiao Tong University containing 8.4TB in email metadata. The exposed database containing 8.4TB in email metadata was discovered on May 22, 2019, through a Shodan search. . This database contained metadata related to a huge amount of emails. es website.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 19, 2023

by the Archive-It Team From our team to yours, wishing you all the best this Holiday Season!! Dr. Emily Lynell Edwards’ and Dr. Rosario Rogel-Salazar‘s teams were some of the first users of the Archives Research Compute Hub ( ARCH ). They joined Web Archivist Karl Blumenthal on a panel at the DLF Forum in St. Louis in November.

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IG Guru

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Metadata is structured data about data, information that facilitates the management and use of other information. The function of metadata is to provide your users with a standardized means for access to digitized materials. However, it is not enough to use just any metadata standard.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 29, 2024

by the Archive-It team Call for Proposals Advancing Inclusive Computational Research with ARCH The Internet Archive invites applications to Advancing Inclusive Computational Research with ARCH. Read the full announcement on the Internet Archive blog to learn more and apply. Read about the project on the Archive-It blog.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

by Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivist for Archive-It The annual Archive-It Partner Meeting took place on July 26th in Washington, D.C. Around 30 partners and friends of Archive-It gathered in person at the D.C. The first hour wrapped up with an Archiving and Data Services (ADS) update from Product Operations Manager, Kody Willis.

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National Archives Records Express

JULY 24, 2023

Digital scanning operations, Preservation Labs, Archives 2: Jerry Thompson. Metadata and Documentation Accurate and comprehensive metadata is crucial for the successful management and retrieval of digitized records. Metadata should include information such as record titles, dates, descriptions, and unique identifiers.

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Archive-It

APRIL 16, 2024

Guest post by Amber Passen (she/they), Digital Archivist for the Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives (CIAA) at the Bartholomew County Public Library in Columbus, Indiana This post is part of a series written by members of the Community Webs program. For more information, visit communitywebs.archive-it.org.

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National Archives Records Express

MAY 25, 2023

Digitization project at Archives 1. National Archives Identifier: 184341402 This is the third in a series of posts supporting the publication of 36 CFR section 1236 subpart E – Digitizing Permanent Records. All of the posts have been collected under the 36 CFR Section 1236 category.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The most severe one is a remote pre-authenticated PHP archive file deserialization vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-22241 which received a CVSS score of 8.1. “Phar files (PHP Archive) files contain metadata in serialized format, which when parsed by a PHP file operation function leads to the metadata getting deserialized.

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Preservica

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Our Primo instance was already harvesting from our other systems (such as our image viewer Luna and our Archives Hub microsite) and we decided to try the same process with Preservica utilizing its OAI-PMH and APIs. We realized that we needed to convert the metadata to a better format, split it by record, and ingest it into Preservica.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Recently, we have received many questions about metadata. Most of the inquiries about metadata revolve around two questions – What is metadata and why is it important. The purpose of this article is to discuss whether metadata is part of an electronic record and if so why. So, what is metadata?

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Preservica

AUGUST 1, 2019

Preservica , the market leader in SaaS-based active digital preservation, has been selected by the Colorado State Archives (CSA) to preserve and streamline access to all mandated permanent records generated by Colorado government agencies, divisions, courts, special districts and other entities. Preservica at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2021

Make the most of metadata by utilizing systems that help automate how metadata is applied while retaining unstructured data in place. Put more intelligence into governance either by auto-tagging and categorizing content to kick off a retention workflow or by proactively managing the archival of business content and disposal of ROT.

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AIIM

APRIL 27, 2021

Step 1: Improve Content Metadata. High-quality metadata is essential to improving search results. But expecting employees to consistently input useful metadata is a losing battle. Move archives to cloud storage repositories. You should also think about the function of the content and the data it holds.

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Preservica

JULY 26, 2018

The world’s largest grassroots human rights organization will use Preservica’s active digital preservation platform to create a global archive that will accelerate investigations into human rights violations and protect digital records of significant historical importance to the global movement. Oxford, UK and Boston, MA.

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AIIM

JUNE 3, 2021

The National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA ) and Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) set forth the government-wide policy M-19-21 as a directive to progress how government records are managed. Permanent federal records AND appropriate metadata must be created, managed and maintained in electronic format by 2022.

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Preservica

JUNE 25, 2019

Preservica, market leaders in active digital preservation, has announced the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) , part of SOAS University of London , will use its cloud-hosted digital preservation and discovery platform to safeguard and increase access to their extensive multimedia collection of endangered languages.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

by the Archive-It team. Archive-It partners and Internet Archive staff met in-person for their first annual review of web archiving progress and plans since 2019, immediately preceding the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) annual conference in Boston.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Best Practices Exchange (BPE) is one of those conferences that slips my radar until I need information about how the archives community is thinking about X (insert electronic records, born digital archives, digital preservation, etc. the websites and physical spaces in libraries and archives. Thank you TSLA!

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National Archives Records Express

APRIL 25, 2024

National Archives Identifier: 6386418 This blog post is the first in a series focusing on specific areas agencies should consider in their transition to fully digital government. After that date, NARA will only accept permanent records in digital formats with required metadata. A US Army specialist 4 examines a computer printout.

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Everteam

MARCH 16, 2023

for business or IT departments that have to carry out data recovery operations from old systems or the preliminary analysis/sorting of document silos affected by the implementation of EDM or EAS, for employees, who must first manually sort documents and then enter document description metadata before putting them into DMS/EAS.

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Archive-It

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

by Tammi Kim, Special Collections and Archives Technical Services Librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The staff at UNLV’s Special Collections and Archives were shocked and horri fied, and the impact of this tragic event has been shocking and surreal to the Las Vegas community.

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Preservica

MARCH 14, 2018

Oxford, London UK and Boston MA, March 14 2018: The Sainsbury Archive, which charts the growth and history of one of the UK’s largest supermarkets, has chosen Preservica’s AWS cloud-hosted digital preservation platform to actively preserve invaluable digital assets relating to the company’s operations.

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National Archives Records Express

MAY 30, 2023

Digitization project at Archives 1 (Room 18W2) National Archives Identifier: 184341402 This is our fourth blog post taking a deep dive into 36 CFR 1236 Subpart E–Digitizing Permanent Records , which takes effect next week. Implementing quality management requirements is crucial to ensuring the quality of digitized images.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

Now the Microsoft-owned company provided an update on the incident, the attackers were able to escalate access to npm infrastructure and access the following files exfiltrated from npm cloud storage: A backup of skimdb.npmjs.com containing data from April 7, 2021, with the following information:An archive of user information from 2015.

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The Schedule

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I think a lot of professionals on the archives/RM border have done these interviews, because we are still (somehow) an anomaly to MLS/MIS graduate students. What made you want to switch from archives to records management? Did she happen to know anyone like that in her immediate circle? As it happens, she did! Which, fair enough!

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Archive-It

MARCH 26, 2020

by Jillian Lohndorf, Web Archivist for Archive-It. In particular, the Archive-It Advanced Training series of webinars features lessons, technology updates, and more tips and tricks from the Internet Archive’s staff and web archiving partners around the world! Descriptive practices for web archives varies widely.

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Archive-It

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

by the Archive-It team. We are pleased to announce the release of Archive-It 7.0 to our community of web archiving partners. This release includes several critical upgrades to web crawling, archival replay, and data reporting tools, and lays foundation for still more developments on the roadmap.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 10, 2019

by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Web archives can do the same. Archive-It is a platform that brings together different tools that have been developed to acquire, store, preserve, and share primary source material from the World Wide Web — a kind of “one stop shop” for web archiving tech.

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Archive-It

JULY 19, 2021

by the Archive-It team. The Archive-It Partner Meeting returns on Wednesday, September 29 ! This annual conference brings Archive-It partners and peers together to share the year’s web archiving news, insights, and developments. Archive-It search results in Primo. Armenian Heritage Archives. Save the Date!

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 20, 2021

by the Archive-It team. 60+ public libraries and cultural heritage organizations from across the US, Canada, and internationally have joined Community Webs to document local history and the lives of their patrons through web archiving. Meet them and learn much more about the program here on the Internet Archive blog.

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Preservica

AUGUST 27, 2018

Using Preservica’s standard APIs, preserved content and metadata can also be displayed and discovered through TownsWeb Archiving’s PastView online access portal. Moira Edwards, VP Channels and Alliances at Preservica adds “We are delighted TownsWeb Archiving have become a preferred partner for digitisation services.

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Archive-It

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

by Bridget Collings and Raven Germain, Web Archivists for Archive-It. The CARL 2022 Canadian Web Archiving Symposium was held January 26-27 virtually. The first session was a Keynote Address given by the Internet Archive’s founder Brewster Kahle, which addressed “the future of web archiving”.

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Archive-It

MAY 24, 2018

Partners, collaborators, and peers gathered this week for Describing Web Archives , the latest in Archive-It’s Advanced Training series of webinars , and the second (with Access to Archive-It Collections ) to invite web archivists to take the lead in demonstrating their approaches to access and discovery.

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National Archives Records Express

JULY 23, 2021

However, it will likely lack sufficient metadata and the interactive features provided by an email client to serve as an authentic representation of the original. PDF has lots of places to put the metadata about email messages and the accounts they belong to. But migration between formats is complicated.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 28, 2021

by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Want to know more about a tool in our web archiving toolbox? Your suggestions or questions for future posts about Archive-It technology are very welcome here. Archiving web-based video and audio content can challenge even the most experienced web archivist.

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