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Re-collection book tour pleads for digital preservation from Toronto to Taiwan

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In 2015 Re-collection: Art, New Media and Social Memory continued to gather attention from libraries, universities, and the press. This just-published MIT Press book by Richard Rinehart and Still Water Co-Director Jon Ippolito surveys new paradigms and techniques for safeguarding culture for future generations in the face of imminent technological obsolescence. Since last summer the …

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Will your obsolete software live on in the cloud?

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

If you’re over 30, chances are you’ve stumbled on a CD-ROM, game cartridge, or floppy disk in a box that you’d like to access but can’t, because you’ve long gotten rid of the hardware that went with it. Maybe you imagined your local library or museum has been stockpiling vintage Ataris and Mac 512s, but …

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Wagging the Long Tail of Digital Preservation

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The German town of Karlsruhe is no stranger to advanced technology, as home to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the ZKM Center for Art and Technology Karlsruhe. In his keynote for the November 2014 Digital Archiving conference at the ZAK Center for Digital Tradition (CODIGT), Still Water Co-Director Jon Ippolito presented advanced technologies …

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Digital Curation tuition discount extended to Spring 2015

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Good news for out-of-state and international students interested in the University of Maine’s online Digital Curation graduate program. The University has extended its long-distance discount to students who enroll in the Certificate by this spring.

Day of the Dead (Media): how aficionados can help revive dying culture

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Professionals across the spectrum of cultural heritage institutions are struggling to keep up with an increasingly digital landscape, as confirmed by the 30-odd contributions to Mexico’s first Symposium on Audiovisual and Digital Archiving (SIPAD). Today’s curators and conservators have their hands full coping with constantly changing video formats and Web standards, not to mention convincing …

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Register by September to get the in-state rate for online Digital Curation courses

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

After observing the impressive response to its fledgling Digital Curation program, which has already been called “a national standard for the study of digital curation,” the University of Maine has approved a special discount for out-of-state students. In-state tuition for our Digital Curation graduate certificate is one-third the cost of out-of-state tuition–and anyone who enrolls …

Special online discussion celebrates publication of Re-collection

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

The July discussion on the Yasmin email list focuses on MIT Press’s publication last month of Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito, which has been called the first academic book on new media preservation. Re-collection examines the challenge posed by new media to our long-term social memory, examining …

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Re-collection, the first academic book on new media preservation, hits the shelves

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

Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, the new book by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito published this week by MIT Press, has already received acclaim from some high-profile reviewers.

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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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.