The following is a guest post by Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois, who presented these ideas at the 2012 General Assembly of the IIPC. This post is the first in a three-part series. Imagine a world in which libraries...

The comprehensive report neatly wraps our recent digital preservation work with state governments, but in the case of the Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Project (GeoMAPP), the report only touches the surface of...

The cloud has driven down the cost of ownership of IT systems enabling smaller organisations the ability to access services that were previously only available to the global 1000. Can the cloud do the same for digital...

Digital preservation and curation are rapidly maturing disciplines, able to draw on an increasingly rich set of community best practices, tools, and service providers to ensure the long-term viability and value of the digital...

The Digital Curation program is a two-year graduate certificate, taught online, intended for professionals working in museums, archives, artist studios, government offices, and anywhere that people need to manage digital files....

By Ruth Duerr, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) As a member of the Data Conservancy team, my role includes keeping up with developments in data management, and often these developments are not technical so much as...