Description: Open source tools, CERP, JHOVE, DROID, Heritrix, for electronic records archivists to use in preserving digital files like WAV, PST, websites, and email.
Description: Very early "big data" tracking mortality rates in 17th-century London. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Mellon Foundation has funded an $887,000 project to develop community-driven archives! [via Info Docket]See what questions archivists across the country answered yesterday for #AskAnArchivist. [via SAA]What album would you be....if you could preserve yourself in a vinyl record.
Description: The Federal Web Archiving Interest Group focuses on sharing strategies, workflows, and best practices for collecting, preserving, and providing access to archived web content of interest to U.S. federal agencies. As needed, smaller working groups may form to advance joint projects. Purpose The main goal for this interest group is to provide a space for discussing current and