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.
When homework is real work: Digital Curation students help preserve media art Read More »
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.
Digital Curation tuition now discounted for *all* distant students! Read More »
Starting in June 2013, the home of Still Water Co-Directors Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais becomes an experiment in sustainable living through digital feedback. This net-zero-energy unit in the award-winning Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage now includes a smart grid whose energy generation and use patterns can be monitored in real-time on the Web.
The Wired Ecovillage: Can a smart house leave a smaller footprint? Read More »
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.
Students map Maine in story and song Read More »
Scalar is an online platform built by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture (ANVC) centered at USC that facilitates the creation of media-rich scholarly publications. The software has only recently entered public beta, however versions have been operational since 2010 that have led to a number of works, many sponsored by scholarly organizations and academic
Scalar a PCMag Editors’ Choice Read More »
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.”
Praise for U-Me’s Digital Curation online classes Read More »
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
The Ex-files: how long will our software last? Read More »
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
New course teaches how to put your digital collection online Read More »
Maine Public Radio highlights the debate over open access to scholarly publications in conversation with Still Water’s Jon Ippolito and his fellow colleagues from the University of Maine.
What good is knowledge that can’t be shared? Read More »
A contagious media project by John Bell remixing famous book covers has taken flight, visualizing the literary possibilities attending the recent merger of Random House and Penguin Books.
Random Penguin book covers make a splash Read More »
