Monthly Archives: March 2010

Challenges of preservation in a digital world

The New York Times highlighted the unique challenges of archival preservation of born-digital materials in an article published yesterday.

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Digital Preservation Task Force report now available online

A Blue Ribbon Task Force formed in 2007 to investigate Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has released its final report. You can read the full report here.

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TDL and the Texas Water Digital Library

The Texas Digital Library (TDL) and its partners have begun the process of developing a new collaborative resource for sharing water data across the state of Texas. That resource, the Texas Water Digital Library, will federate water research from across the state in a TDL-hosted DSpace repository. The repository will create a single place for researchers to search for water data from every region of the state.

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TDL offers courses on Vireo and Open Conference Systems

Sign up now for March 25 training courses: ETD Management with Vireo and Online Conference Management with OCS.

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TDL travels to WebWise 2010

TDL co-director Mark McFarland attended WebWise 2010 to showcase Vireo, the TDL’s submission and management system for electronic theses and dissertations.

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New issue of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is available

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, an online scholarly journal hosted by the TDL Electronic Press, has released its latest issue entitled “Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Service Delivery in Virtual Worlds.”

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