Browsing by Subject "preservation"

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    Born-digital agricultural resources: archives and issues
    (International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD), 2007) Eells, Linda L.
    Agricultural researchers and public users world-wide have ever-increasing access to a plethora of online resources, including "grey literature" not published in commercial or society publications. In the United States, most of the agricultural grey literature is contributed by land grant university Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) and associated Cooperative Extension Service (CES) units. Their publications and resources are often created in a digital format and presented online even when a parallel distribution option is maintained for a print or hard-copy version. While increasing the amount of free online agricultural information is critically important, many issues must be addressed to ensure that users can both easily locate and retain long-term access to this information. It is also imperative to create a user-friendly process that enables researchers, extension agents, and farmers to more easily contribute valuable digital agricultural content to online venues, while at the same time centralizing access points to enable faster, easier access by all users. Most importantly, literature being born-digital1 today must be described and archived in a manner that preserves access for searchers ten, fifty, or one hundred years from now, enabling them to learn from today's lessons rather than repeat them.
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    Friends of the Vermillion River Water Trail Study
    (2005) Ochs, Christopher
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    Heritage Perceptions: A Study of Southwest Minneapolis
    (2016-06) Sundberg, Madelyn
    Heritage is integral both to the character of a community and to the identity of an individual. This study argues that heritage resources – the cultural, natural, and historical sites that a community feels are important to save for future generations – require systematic assessment that brings together the expertise of professionals and residents through public participation. A void in the existing literature, based primarily on conjecture from professional assumptions, provides an opportunity for exploratory research into methods of community engagement during the designation of heritage resources. An online questionnaire, collecting both qualitative and quantitative data, assesses local perceptions of heritage importance and explores specific places valued by residents. This study specifically focuses on the heritage of neighborhoods in Southwest Minneapolis; however, the methods utilized provide a precedent for future research and professional investigations, by architectural historians and preservation planners, into community participation in heritage preservation in the United States.
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    Managing Scholarly Outputs in a Proprietary Platform: Exploring the Implications of Esri Story Maps for Spatial Digital Humanities Preservation (Accepted Manuscript)
    (Journal of Map and Geography Libraries, 2024-04) Kernik, Melinda L
    Spatial digital humanities projects often struggle with sustainability and preservation. Interactive, engaging websites require consistent maintenance to function well. As a result, projects rise and fall with grant cycles while technical staff face an ever-increasing portfolio of projects to maintain. For the past decade, Esri's StoryMaps platform has offered a way to combine maps, text, images, and other multimedia with relatively little technical overhead for the end user. This has had substantial influence on spatial digital humanities, expanding opportunities for a wide range of scholars and organizations to share archival research publicly. The challenge of preserving this work looms large, however, as the retirement date for the "classic" version of the platform approaches. Based on an effort at the University of Minnesota to contact authors for hundreds of public-facing story maps, this paper reflects on the difficulty of managing scholarly outputs in a system not primarily designed for that purpose and of representing web-based work within the library record. More broadly it asks, what does it mean for spatial digital humanities that so much scholarship is hosted and organized within one proprietary platform?
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    OFR22-01, Assessment of preservation needs and long-range plan for geologic collections and data in Minnesota; a report prepared in fulfillment of National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program Award Number 07HQGR0126
    (Minnesota Geological Survey, 2009) Thorleifson, L Harvey
    According to the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP) web site, section 351 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 directs the Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to carry out a National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program. The Implementation Plan for the NGGDPP, submitted to Congress in August 2006, outlines the vision and purpose of the program and makes recommendations for its implementation. One of the early action items in the implementation plan is for USGS to begin interactions with State Geological Surveys and other DOI agencies that maintain geological and geophysical data and samples to address their preservation and data rescue needs. As the first step in this process, USGS requested that each state provide an assessment of current collection resources and data preservation needs, and thus provide a summary of the collections held, supported, or used by state geological surveys.
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    “We’re all doing the best we can with what we’ve got” : Preservation practices of Data Curation Network members
    (2022) Luong, Hoa; Narlock, Mikala R.; Petters, Jon
    Over the course of six weeks, members of the Data Curation Network were interviewed by the Assistant Director to discuss their research data preservation practices. Through these semi-structured interviews, several commonalities emerged, including key challenges that will need to be addressed to ensure the long-term reusability of research data as well as the similar mentality many institutions expressed: that they are doing the best they can with what they have. The authors conclude by identifying areas of potential future research as well as practical collaboration opportunities.