New blog posting, a round up of our 2012 Born Digital Activities:

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New blog posting, a round up of our 2012 Born Digital Activities:

This is the third posting in a miniseries of blog postings, looking back on what we’ve done in the last year. More to come! One of the findings from our 2010 survey of special collections and archives in the US and Canada was that dealing with “born-digital” materials is one of the most challenging issues facing special collections. This is nothing new, but we realized that it was time to move past the “deer in the headlights” phase we seem to be in and move towards practical solutions based on emerging practice. This year, Ricky Erway teamed up with Jackie Dooley and a crackerjack team of experts to push forward on born-digital solutions. The result is our Demystifying Born Digital project area, and two reports : You’ve Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media , and Swatting the Long Tail of Digital Media: A ...

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