Preservation

Preserving scientific digital data and ensuring its continued access has emerged as a major initiative for both funding agencies and academic institutions. Digital preservation, the study of the processes, organizations, and technologies needed to maintain scientific digital data over time, is a multidisciplinary field that draws on the literature from informatics/computer science, library and information science, and domain sciences such a biology, geology, and environmental sciences.

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Articles in Preservation:


	New tools available to mine world's largest digital repository of books	The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) announces the availability of data mining and analytics tools for the HathiTrust Digital Library.
	Beth Plale, BigData Steering Committee Chair: Call for Papers/Workshops 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013)	The Program Committees of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013) invite proposals for Workshops and high-quality original research papers.
	D2I/SCA/SOMA: Drive Competitive Advantage and Business Intelligence with Big Data	Talk by Eddie Satterly, Splunk. Co-sponsored by the Data to Insight Center, and the Kelley School of Business Supply Chain Academy and Systems and Operations Management Association.
	New Legal Mandate in Hand, Data-Sharing Advocates Tackle Cultural Obstacles	With its hands-on practical approach, the work of the Research Data Alliance may also help lay the groundwork for agreement on technical standards on an international basis, said Beth A. Plale, a professor of computer science at Indiana University at Bloomington who participated in the founding session this week in Göteborg.
	Professor Beth A. Plale co-leads U.S. involvement in new international Research Data Alliance	U.S. involvement is led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science Professor Francine Berman and Professor Beth A. Plale, of the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University.
	D2I announces release of Karma v3.2.3	Includes a new package, Karma Adaptor, which is one of the collection tools that make up the Karma provenance collection toolkit to harvest provenance from log files.
	DLP: Challenges and Opportunities in Image Processing and Analysis of Historical Documents	The Digital Library Program Brown Bag Series
	DLP: SEAD Virtual Archive: Thin Layer for Scientific Discovery and Long-Term Preservation	The Digital Library Program Brown Bag Series
	Socio-Ecological Informatics	Social-ecological researchers study the interactions of the environment, users, and governance of environmental resources. The research undertaken by the Social Ecological Informatics group applies database and data management, information retrieval, knowledge management, human computer interaction design, and ontological tools and approaches to enhancing the value of social-ecological data for research and policy use.
	Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013) - Digital Libraries a the Crossroads	The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues.