Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) DataFinder is a custom, easy-to-use tool developed to provide select demographic information as well as administrative data on programs that affect low-income people and families. Users can create and download custom tables that present a national picture, a state picture or a comparative look at states and communities. The DataFinder currently includes state and national data on: child care assistance spending and participation; Head Start and Early Head Start participation; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) expenditures; young child demographics; and poverty. The tool also provides community-level statistics on education, demographics and youth violence. CLASP will add more data to this evolving tool over time.
This page provides links to various sources of information on software tools that might be useful for digital preservation, whether sourced from the digital preservation community or elsewhere.
The DCC has created a Tools and Services Catalogue to help navigate this landscape, focusing on software and services that directly perform curation and management tasks.
The Digital Preservation Network is being created by research-intensive universities to ensure long-term preservation of the complete digital scholarly record. DPN is an approach that replicates the complete scholarly record across nodes with diverse architectures, geographies and organizations, preventing a common point of failure DPN is a federation that builds upon the higher education community’s collection and preservation efforts DPN is a community that develops, shares and enhances preservation practices and technologies
digital preservation as a service. cloud. white papers, tools. commercial digital preservation tools. "World leading OAIS compliant digital preservation solutions"
The Digital Registry is a directory listing of U.S. Government publication digitization efforts. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive listing of all these digitization efforts. Included in the listings are: An overview of the project. The institution(s) and partners involved in the digitization. The scope of the digitization project (e.g., by volume, year, Congress, administration, geographic region). The status of the project (planning phase, in-progress, completed). Technical specifications of the digitization output (e.g., file format, metadata schema). Whether a digitization project is seeking collaborative assistance. A link to the publicly-accessible digitized content.
AV Insider is a new magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community, introducing you those doing the crucial work for AV digital preservation. Get to hear their opinions, perspectives, challenges, and how they understand their work and the work of their organisation and others in the context of this broader community. The magazine will also keep you up-to-date on the latest news from within the domain and offers articles related to policy issues and challenges, the educational landscape, funding and budgeting, long-term storage, and research and development, just to name a few. Each edition focuses on a theme, giving attention to developments and challenges within the domain. Readers will be offered a variety of voices, articles, and short bites that paint a picture of the people, organisations and issues that populate this diverse community of AV digitisation and digital preservation.
The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) is an "organization that provides scientific and public stewardship for national and international marine environmental and ecosystem data and information." Their website contains helpful data related to physical, biological and chemical measurements derived from in situ oceanographic observations, satellite remote sensing of the oceans, and ocean model simulations. On the homepage, visitors can use the Access Data area to look for detailed profiles of the world's oceans, along with information on finding archived data sets. One recent feature added to the site is the "Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas." Visitors can use this atlas to toggle various data sets, such as soundings, place names, and so on for a detailed and nuanced understanding of this body of water. Moving on, the Publications area contains links to the NODC's Ocean Climate Laboratory, posters, and the NOAA Photo Library.
SNIA, advancing IT technologies, standards, and education programs for all IT professionals. Made up of some 400 member companies spanning the global storage market, the SNIA connects the IT industry with end-to-end storage and information management solutions.
the index uses 24 variables (which include both hard data and survey data) across 11 sectors to create a measure of welfare for 34 of its member countries, plus Brazil and Russia.
A list of digital preservation cost-models: Costing Digital Preservation, Digital Preservation Costing Initiatives, Significant Digital Preservation Costing Papers, General Costing Information
Roughly the specification consists of 2 parts: 1. A schema (in essence DCAT) specifying a serialization of Dataset information, and 2. A protocol / API for getting this information from a compliant data catalogue site.
To develop and advocate reforms where elected officials have a conflict of interest with the American public, especially in the use of information technology to make themselves more democratically accountable.
The aim of the POCOS project is to deliver a series of three symposia at locations across the United Kingdom at which global thought-leaders in research into the Preservation of Complex Objects will share and thereby extend the body of knowledge on this topic.
PrestoPRIME will research and develop practical solutions for the long-term preservation of digital media objects, programmes and collections, and find ways to increase access by integrating the media archives with European on-line digital libraries in a digital preservation framework. This will result in a range of tools and services, delivered through a networked Competence Centre.
Internet Memory Foundation is a non-profit institution. It actively supports the preservation of Internet as a new media for heritage and cultural purpose.
RM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better ways of engaging with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.
The intention economy is an approach to viewing markets and economies focusing on buyers as a scarce commodity. The consumers' intent to buy drives the production of goods to meet their specific needs. It is also the title of Doc Searls book: The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge published in May, 2012.
The BitCurator Project is an effort to build, test, and analyze systems and software for incorporating digital forensics methods into the workflows of a variety of collecting institutions.
A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge by Christa Williford and Charles Henry Research Design by Amy Friedlander
PublicData.eu will provide a single point of access to open, freely reusable datasets from numerous national, regional and local public bodies throughout Europe. PublicData.eu will harvest and federate European public datasets to enable users to search, query, process, cache and perform other automated tasks on the data from a single place.
Data Collective is a startup non-profit. It builds and supports technology to help people find, understand, and share data, advancing the knowledge and education of citizens everywhere.
The University of Virginia Library, Stanford University, the University of Hull, and Yale University. "Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS)." inter-institutional framework for stewarding born-digital content. The group plans to process and preserve thirteen born-digital collections of noteworthy individuals and/or organizations and make them discoverable via Hydra, a Fedora-based solution, which can easily be installed and implemented by other institutions. A cohort of digital archivists has been established with a mandate to engender a digital archivist community of professionals both nationally and internationally, and they will disseminate broadly the lessons learned from the real work of processing and preserving a varied range of born-digital collections.
The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) is a national network intended to facilitate ecological and environmental research on biocomplexity. For scientists, the KNB is an efficient way to discover, access, interpret, integrate and analyze complex ecological data from a highly-distributed set of field stations, laboratories, research sites, and individual researchers.
TreeBASE is a repository of phylogenetic information, specifically user-submitted phylogenetic trees and the data used to generate them. TreeBASE accepts all types of phylogenetic data (e.g., trees of species, trees of populations, trees of genes) representing all biotic taxa. Data in TreeBASE are exposed to the public if they are used in a publication that is in press or published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, book, conference proceedings, or thesis.
The Joint Data Archiving Policy (JDAP) describes a requirement that supporting data be publicly available. This policy was adopted in a joint and coordinated fashion by many leading journals in the field of evolution in 2011, and JDAP has since been adopted by other journals across various disciplines. Additional journals are welcome to endorse and implement JDAP, or use it as a model. Journals that adopt JDAP often recommend Dryad as an appropriate data repository, however the JDAP initiative is distinct from Dryad.
DPN will create a federated approach to preservation of academic content. It will build upon the higher education community’s current investments to create sufficient diversity of preservation approaches to assure access to the digital scholarly record far into the future.
tool for helping people identify and locate online repositories of research data. Over 200 data repositories have been cataloged in Databib, with more being added every week. Users and bibliographers create and curate records that describe data repositories that users can browse and search.
The Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center is an information resource and clearinghouse for communities interested in the preservation of geospatial data. The Resource Center aims to facilitate access to and usage of the range of information resources and tools now available to assist developers and managers of geospatial data and information in ensuring the long-term preservation of their valuable geospatial assets.
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