TDL is beginning 2011 with an invitation to its members to get a look inside the TDL software development process by attending weekly demonstrations held by the software team at the end of each development cycle.
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NSF releases guidelines for data management
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TDLThe National Science Foundation has released its new Data Management Policy for researchers preparing grant proposals.
TDL Update newsletter for September is available
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TDLRead the latest issue of TDL Update, the newsletter of the Texas Digital Library, to discover the latest news and learn how TDL is working with its members to advance scholarly communication.
Posted in News, newsletter, Texas Digital Library
Tags: Baylor University, digital preservation, National Science Foundation, newsletter, Open Access Week, PresNet, software development, TDL Preservation Network, TDL Update, TDL Users Groups, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, training, TxLOR, University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, Vireo
Tags: Baylor University, digital preservation, National Science Foundation, newsletter, Open Access Week, PresNet, software development, TDL Preservation Network, TDL Update, TDL Users Groups, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, training, TxLOR, University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, Vireo
D-Lib issue focuses on repositories
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TDLThe September/October 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine is available and focuses on repository-related issues.
TDL developers complete seventh PresNet sprint
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The TDL software development team held a sprint review on Monday, August 23, to demonstrate work completed in preparation for deployment of the TDL Preservation Network.
New DuraSpace blog tackles preservation issues
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For those interested in issues of preservation, the DuraSpace Preservation and Archive Solution Community is offering a new resource, in the form of a blog, that is intended to foster the “open exchange of ideas and initiatives around preservation & archiving solutions.”
The effort is part of the DuraSpace “
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Why is digital preservation important?
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TDLThe Library of Congress has produced a video that provides a nice beginner’s guide to some of the issues surrounding the long-term preservation of digital assets.
See the video here.
From the video’s description:
Traditional information sources such as books,
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Posted in Preservation Network, Useful resources
Tags: digital preservation, Preservation Network, PresNet, user resources
Tags: digital preservation, Preservation Network, PresNet, user resources
PresNet development sprint underway
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The TDL team has begun work to advance the development of a Preservation Network (PresNet) that will store multiple copies of TDL assets at geographically distributed nodes.
Posted in Conferences, News, Preservation Network, PresNet Users Group, TCDL, TDL development, Texas Digital Library
Tags: digital preservation, ETDs, Federated ETD Collection, iRODS, preservation, Preservation Network, PresNet, PresNet User Group, software development, TCDL, texas advanced computing center, texas colleges
Tags: digital preservation, ETDs, Federated ETD Collection, iRODS, preservation, Preservation Network, PresNet, PresNet User Group, software development, TCDL, texas advanced computing center, texas colleges
Presentations available from iPRES 2009
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TDLThe proceedings and presentations from the Sixth Annual Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2009) are now available online on the California Digital Library’s eScholarship site.
Posted in Conferences, Useful resources
Tags: Conferences, digital preservation, iPRES, user resources
Tags: Conferences, digital preservation, iPRES, user resources
Challenges of preservation in a digital world
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TDLThe New York Times highlighted the unique challenges of archival preservation of born-digital materials in an article published yesterday.