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Raw flux streams and obscure formats: Further work around imaging 5.25-inch floppy disks
Raw flux streams and obscure formats: Further work around imaging 5.25-inch floppy disks
Leontien Talboom, Technical Analyst, Cambridge University Library
Leontien Talboom
Apr 19
The importance of Digital Asset Management — An update from the DAM and Museums Online Event
The importance of Digital Asset Management — An update from the DAM and Museums Online Event
“Join us for the fourth year to learn and connect with other members of the museums, cultural heritage and DAM community. Learn how…
Alea Cook
Feb 21
Less Waiting, More Do-ing: Dispatch from No Time to Wait! 7
Less Waiting, More Do-ing: Dispatch from No Time to Wait! 7
Are you interested in using and supporting open-source solutions, ensuring the preservation of audiovisual heritage, and solving shared…
Caylin Smith
Nov 14, 2023
Building our repository ingest workflow
Building our repository ingest workflow
My last post was about how we built our Deposit Service, a web-based portal that allows users to securely deposit their digital collections…
John Gostick
Nov 7, 2023
Diskovering Nostalgia: A 5.25-inch Floppy Tale
Diskovering Nostalgia: A 5.25-inch Floppy Tale
Leontien Talboom, Technical Analyst, Cambridge University Library
Leontien Talboom
Nov 2, 2023
Update from the 2023 Archives and Records Association conference
Update from the 2023 Archives and Records Association conference
The theme of this year’s Archives and Records Association (ARA) conference was ‘communities’. The call for conference papers went out at in…
Natalie Adams
Sep 26, 2023
Sharing Health Information at Scale: Using the datasets of the Archive of Tomorrow Project
Sharing Health Information at Scale: Using the datasets of the Archive of Tomorrow Project
The Archive of Tomorrow (AoT) project ran from 2022–2023 and looked at collecting health information online. Cambridge University Library…
Leontien Talboom
Aug 30, 2023
Collecting born-digital archives: progress update on the Deposit Service
Collecting born-digital archives: progress update on the Deposit Service
This blogpost has been written by Natalie Adams (Digital Collections Lead) and Jacky Cox (Keeper of University Archives).
Natalie Adams
Jun 28, 2023
Dispatch from the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Unconference 2023
Dispatch from the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Unconference 2023
I was fortunate to attend the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Unconference in London last week. Held annually, the Unconference is a…
Caylin Smith
Jun 26, 2023
Back to Class
Back to Class
Capturing the University of Cambridge Domain
Caylin Smith
Jun 14, 2023
CUL Digital Preservation Programme: All Systems Go for Year 3!
CUL Digital Preservation Programme: All Systems Go for Year 3!
June 1st marks the start of another year of Cambridge University Libraries’ five year Digital Preservation Programme. The Programme team…
Caylin Smith
Jun 1, 2023
The Transfer Service
The Transfer Service
Exciting times at Cambridge University Library (UL): our Transfer Service is up and running! This service is for transferring digital…
Leontien Talboom
Mar 2, 2023
Under the hood: a look inside our Deposit Service
Under the hood: a look inside our Deposit Service
This post covers the technical implementation and design of the Deposit Service that we launched as an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) in…
John Gostick
Dec 15, 2022
World Digital Preservation Day 2022
World Digital Preservation Day 2022
CUL Digital Preservation got nostalgic for World Digital Preservation Day 2022 with team members reflecting on favourite memories of using…
Caylin Smith
Nov 3, 2022
Deposit Service: our first service up and running!
Deposit Service: our first service up and running!
13 October 2022 was a milestone for our team: it was the soft launch of the Cambridge University Libraries’ Deposit Service. This is a…
Natalie Adams
Oct 19, 2022
Data, Digits, and Irn-Bru: CUL Digital Preservation’s Report on iPres 2022 in Glasgow!
Data, Digits, and Irn-Bru: CUL Digital Preservation’s Report on iPres 2022 in Glasgow!
The International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres) recently took place from September 12–16 in Glasgow and brought together a…
Caylin Smith
Oct 14, 2022
Open source and cloud for managing digital collection materials
Open source and cloud for managing digital collection materials
June 2022 marked the completion of the first year of Cambridge University Libraries’ (CUL) Digital Preservation Programme.
Caylin Smith
Sep 1, 2022
Archiving Public Health Discourse on the Web
Archiving Public Health Discourse on the Web
I am Leontien Talboom, the recently appointed web archivist at Cambridge University Library (CUL). As CUL is one of the six UK Legal…
Leontien Talboom
May 23, 2022
Minecraft Cambridge (Part 1)
Minecraft Cambridge (Part 1)
This post covers some of the challenges of trying to collect more-complex digital works than those already within library, archive, or…
Caylin Smith
Mar 30, 2022
Identification and analysis of our research repository file formats using DROID
Identification and analysis of our research repository file formats using DROID
Hi, I’m John Gostick and I’m the Technical Lead for Digital Preservation at Cambridge University Library, where as part of our 5-year…
John Gostick
Feb 24, 2022
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