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On this World Digital Preservation Day, TDL is excited to share results from the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (DPSC) Planning Project: Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation (IMLS Planning Grant LG-252340-OLS-22). In particular, we’ll share the high level findings and how TDL plans to address the actions proposed in the final report.
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TDLBy: Ima Oduok, Digital Librarian
As I started my second year of residency, I looked for a project that would be more long-term and focused on my interest in gaining hands-on experience in digital processing and preservation. It worked out that a TDL member, the University of Houston Libraries,
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TDLBy: Ima Oduok, Digital Librarian
What is Digital POWRR anyway?
This was a question posed by a member of the TDL Digital Preservation Interest Group (DPIG). In a group which has expressed interest in more training opportunities, this question presented a great opportunity to share my experience of a grant-funded workshop tailored around the experiences,
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TDLMaintenance Culture (MC) is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded program created by Myriad, a non-profit consulting organization that seeks to help smaller cultural heritage institutions preserve their collections. The focus of MC is on building a community of practice around the preservation of creative complex, born-digital objects. With several in-person skillshare and workshop events planned in major cities across the United States, MC seeks to assist creators and cultural heritage professionals (such as archivists and curators) to build off existing digital preservation knowledge and apply them to a variety of time-based media objects.
TDLCourtney Mumma, TDL Deputy Director, was invited to deliver the plenary talk at Best Practices Exchange 2023 in Athens, GA, at the University of Georgia’s Special Collections Libraries. The following is the full text of that presentation with the couple of slides that included images (most just served as placeholders).
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TDLThe Texas Digital Library (TDL), with our colleagues at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), are proud to announce a partnership with Portico to support the mission of preserving the scholarly record.
Portico is a community-supported digital preservation service that safeguards access to e-journals,
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TDLTexas Digital Library (TDL) will partner with Educopia and other members of the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative on an IMLS-funded grant to study the needs for and feasibility of a collaborative community-supported digital preservation service.
At the end of 2021, TDL conducted a survey to help us share resources, strategies, and experiences that will strengthen our commitment to digital preservation. We wanted to learn about the various local tools, workflows, and policies you have in place so that we can shape the digital preservation training and learning opportunities we offer in the coming years.
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By Courtney Mumma, Deputy Director of Texas Digital Library
In celebration of World Preservation Day 2021, TDL’s Deputy Director and Digital Preservation Services manager reflects on digital preservation progress and collaborations over the last several years.
Since 2017,
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With support from the newly formed TDL Web Archiving Texas Interest Group (WATXIG) and Lori Donovan, Senior Program Manager, Web Archiving & Data Services from the Internet Archive, TDL partners will now be eligible for a consortial discount of 10% off of Archive-It.
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