Digital Libraries: The Bracing Capacity of a Metaphor
Editor’s note: This post continues our series on CLIR Affiliates, which Chuck Henry initiated in his June 22 blog. In coming weeks, we will feature updates
August 31, 2017
IIIF Update: Interoperability for Audio & Video Resources
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) community recently convened in the Vatican for the 2017 IIIF Conference, where 275 people from 130 institutions and organizations in 18
August 17, 2017
Help SPN Create a Toolkit for Software Preservation Research
This blog is cross-posted from softwarepreservationnetwork.org. Co-authors are Alexandra Chassanoff, Jessica Meyerson, Katherine Thornton, Cynde Moya, and Christa Williford For decades, researchers and practitioners in information
August 10, 2017
Affiliates: Models of Interdependency
Editor’s note: This blog is the first in a series focusing on CLIR Affilates. Subsequent posts will describe some of our international Affiliates in greater
July 22, 2017
Revealing Our Melting Past: Toward a Digital Library of Historic Glacier Photography
By Athea Merredyth The 2016 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union may forever be remembered for the passionate remarks delivered by California governor Jerry Brown.
April 6, 2017
Thinking Outside the Box: Crafting a Culture of Library Collaboration at The Collective
By Jennifer Grayburn Ten hamsters pile on top of each other. As one hamster on the third row of this unusual pyramid smiles out at
March 23, 2017
Building Bridges: Creating Collaborative Partnerships Between Large and Small Institutions
By Latoya Devezin Collaborative partnerships between large and small institutions create a platform for organizations with shared goals to work on a project beneficial to
February 16, 2017
Building Community Around the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
By Sheila Rabun If you have been anywhere near digital image repositories in the past five years, you might have heard of IIIF (pronounced triple-EYE-eff),
January 27, 2017
Recordings at Risk: Pilot Call Pointers
By Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez Audio and audiovisual materials of significant value often fall under the stewardship of archivists who lack specialized training regarding their description, storage,
January 9, 2017
Digital Libraries and Social Justice
By Charles Henry This summer, CLIR announced funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the initial planning phase of the Digital Library of
November 3, 2016
Wikidata as a Digital Preservation Knowledgebase
By Katherine Thornton Katherine Thornton, CLIR postdoctoral fellow in data curation at Yale University Library, coauthored this piece with Euan Cochrane, digital preservation manager at
October 27, 2016
Recordings at Risk: What’s at Stake and What We Can Do
Ten to fifteen years. That’s the length of time preservationists like Mike Casey say we could have to reformat twentieth-century audio and audiovisual content in collecting institutions
October 20, 2016
