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Survey reports skills in technology and Digital Preservation will be most desired in the next five years

Preservica

A staggering 81 percent of archives administrators report that skills related to technology and systems, such as digital asset management and Digital Preservation , are the most important to the staff in their department and will remain so in the coming years. When knowledge is shared, the community grows.

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SAA Austin Recap #2! Acquisitions & Appraisal & Electronic Records Section Joint Section Meeting!

The Schedule

Acquisitions & Appraisal + Electronic Records Section Joint Section Meeting at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019 . On August 3, 2019, members of the Acquisitions & Appraisal Section of the Society of American Archivists joined members of the Electronic Records Section for a combined annual meeting. Business Meetings. Presentations.

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Web archiving partners meet in 2019

Archive-It

Archive-It partners met twice this month: attendees of the joint Society of American Archivists and Council of State Archivists conference met at the University of Texas at Austin, and the first regional meeting of Archive-It partners in New England convened at Harvard University’s Lamont Library.

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The stack: An introduction to the WARC file

Archive-It

It’s a digital preservation mantra: lots of copies keeps stuff safe (LOCKSS). But to preserve and manage them in the longest term, it helps to know what WARCs are and are not –what they can and cannot do for future users of web archives. The WARC develops slowly, but it’s here to meet your web archiving needs.

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Planning for Long-Term Access to COVID-19 Memory Websites

Archive-It

These records, often in the form of images with notes, are uploaded to websites set up by research centers, libraries, archives, and museums. Since the early days of the pandemic, we have witnessed websites sprouting up to call for and collect people’s experience in living with the virus. These are the memory fragments of our times.

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Project WARC-Speed: Challenges and opportunities for web archiving programs

Archive-It

By Grace McGann (Moran), Teen Librarian, Tipp City Public Library. My final recommendations to the Associate Dean for the Office of Digital Strategies were shaped by the myriad challenges that face a burgeoning web archiving program. I now plan to adopt these fields into my policy for description at the Tipp City Public Library.

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For safekeeping: An automated preservation workflow for Archive-It content

Archive-It

by Adriane Hanson, Head of Digital Stewardship, University of Georgia Libraries. Adapted from my presentation of the same name at the Archive-It Partner Meeting on October 7, 2020. We appreciate that Archive-It provides very good digital preservation for the copies they maintain. Why Keep a Local Copy?