Guardienne of the Tomes

Launching the Digital Lifecycle Program at UCB Lynne Grigsby  (Head Library IT) and Eric Mitchell, AUL/DCS Major strategic initiative through Library's strategic planning process. Last year and a half, developing current digitization strategy. Digital Lifecycle Program Mission and Goals To convert and publish on a massive scale the UCB collections. (To digitize content and shepherd all digitally converted assets of the library through their lifecycle to service the mission of the library. Goal 1: Create and manage digitized assets Goal 2: Have a formal, ongoing, and sustainable digitization program that focuses on the entire digital lifecycle Goal 3: Provide effective access and widespread dissemination of content How do you effect this change from ad hoc project based digitization to high throughput. Convert: - Respect and identify multiple digitization streams and make sure they don't conflict (wax cylinder digitization, vendor sourced 2D material digitization, ...

UC DLFx 2018 Demystifying Data Curation -  Vessela Ensberg (UCD),  Emily Lin (UCM),  Ho Jung Yoo (UCSD),  Amy Never (UCB) Purpose of data curation: FAIR data principles--Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. Qualities of data that make them valuable. Findable: DOI; Accessible: online, fixity-checked, backed-up---these are called Bit Curation (we depend on technology). Interoperability: file formats still active, can be open and read Reusability: metadata to put data in context for researchers to decide whether or not they can use it. This is curation for long term use. Curation for long term use: When: pre-ingest or post-ingest-- How: in depth (documentation happens down to each variable) or limited in scope. Tension between time, quality, and return on investment 4 models/case studies on how they approached curation in their experience, what skills are necessary, and what difficulty there is in providing those services. Case 1 Emily ...

Session 4: Excavating the 80s: Strategies for Restoring Digital Artifacts From the First Era of Personal Computing - John Durno "Avoiding technological quicksand" Rothenberg presentation review: hard copy, standards, computer museums, format migration, emulation. Ultimately he argued all but emulation would be of limited utility. David Bearman's "Reality and Chimeras in the Preservation of Electronic Records" in 1999 D-Lib. OAIS Functional Model. Rothenberg's emulation still at work - see Internet Archive, see code4lib paper (missed cite), Preserving and Emulating Digital Art Objects (Cornell white paper). Usually case-based choosing whatever works, not prescripted. Case Study 1: AtariWriter - no modern software that can read or convert. but if you can play games on an old platform, someone has probably written an emulator for it. Locate, install, configure an open source emulator. Tracking down old software not usually that difficult, though legality ...