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

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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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Advocating for digital preservation through better corporate governance

Preservica

Last month I attended the ICA Section for Business Archives meeting which was held at the Levi Strauss HQ in San Francisco. You can find other useful resources and case studies on our Corporate and business archives page. Learn more.

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

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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

By planning to preserve the original collections and the website snapshots in an open repository, we feel, will better prepare them in meeting the FAIR data principles ( Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable ). This is the current plan for providing long-term access to the collection at COVID-19 Images and Stories.

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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?