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Internet Archive’s Jason Scott shakes up Digital Preservation class

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Preservation maverick Jason Scott joins the University of Maine’s Digital Curation students this week for a special conversation on emulation, crowdsourcing, and how his Archive Team has saved more of digital culture for posterity than most of the world’s museums put together. A powerful spokesman for preservation, Scott will be the guest for a Digital …

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First academic book on digital preservation featured in online course this spring

23 Comments / Digital Curation, Interarchive, John Bell, Jon, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Still Water, Variable Media / By jon

A HASTAC scholarship, an interview published by the Smithsonian, and a cover story in ARTnews that mentions a landmark book by one of the professors. These are among the accolades received this fall by instructors teaching next term’s online courses in Metadata and Digital Preservation, for their contributions to the growing field of digital curation.

Still Water’s 2013 HASTAC scholar connects new media and education

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Still Water Senior Researcher John Bell has been named a 2013 HASTAC scholar, and he’s spending his time finding new ways to knit together data and the organizations that produce them.

When homework is real work: Digital Curation students help preserve media art

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Graduate students in the University of Maine’s Digital Curation program do more than read archival theory and study metadata standards. As their final project for DIG 550 (Digital Preservation), several students chose real-life artworks to preserve using the techniques learned in class.

Digital Curation tuition now discounted for all distant students!

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Sharpening your digital skills just got a lot more accessible, thanks to a huge discount in tuition pricing for the University of Maine’s Digital Curation online courses.

Students map Maine in story and song

4 Comments / Digital Curation, Interarchive, Joline, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, RequestForCeremony, Still Water, Variable Media / By jon

A collaboration between a class taught by Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais and the Maine Folklife Center has resulted in a user-friendly way to survey the state’s rich heritage in story and song. The result shows how digital curation can make history and culture more accessible to a wide audience.

Praise for U-Me’s Digital Curation online classes

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After only a year online, the University of Maine’s graduate certificate in Digital Curation is being called “a national standard for the study of digital curation.”

The Ex-files: how long will our software last?

19 Comments / Digital Curation, Interarchive, Jon, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Open Art Network, Still Water, Variable Media / By jon

Is DOOM doomed? Should we say our last words for Word? Will Mozilla be a dinosaur? These questions echoed through the Montpelier room of the Library of Congress earlier this week during Preserving.exe, a conference from 20-21 May on the challenges of keeping software alive for the long term. The National Digital Information Infrastructure and …

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New course teaches how to put your digital collection online

7 Comments / Digital Curation, Interarchive, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Open Art Network, Still Water, Variable Media / By jon

It’s hard to find a collecting institution that doesn’t have a Web site these days, and you’re going to need to know MySQL and PHP to run most of them. But training as an archivist or librarian doesn’t teach you how to customize a Web site. What’s a digital curator to do? Answer: take the …

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Digital Curation summit asks, what do today’s curators need to know?

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Whether they manage bits for their local historical society or the Library of Congress, the digital era has placed added demands on today’s curators. The growing need for training in these new skills is one of the motivations for the University of Maine’s just-launched Digital Curation graduate program, but U-Me is not alone in recognizing …

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