Bits and Pieces

Updates on our work in digital preservation and research data.
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  • susan borda
In the Spring of 2021, a researcher I regularly work with informed me that he had included the citation to his dataset in the References section of the paper that he had just submitted to AGU JGR Planets, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE006875. I thought it was an excellent opportunity to follow one of our datasets through the process from a mention in the References section all the way through to the DataCite Data Metrics badge, https://support.datacite.org/docs/displaying-usage-and-citations-in-your-repository, in the Deep Blue Data repository indicating this dataset has been cited.
  • susan borda
In early 2021, I was trying to verify whether the DataCite Data Metrics badge, https://support.datacite.org/docs/displaying-usage-and-citations-in-your-repository a tool for displaying usage and citation information, was working or not. However, I had no easy way of knowing whether any of our researchers had actually cited any of the data sets we host in Deep Blue Data in their published articles, let alone whether other researchers had. So, I decided to begin the process of adding citations to our datasets via the DataCite API, based on information we have in our “Citations to related material” field. I was using the instructions on https://support.datacite.org/docs/contributing-data-citations#.

The following is my process and the results of that process.
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
We have drafted a document outlining what "digital preservation" means at our institution.
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  • Scott David Witmer
Announcing the publication of the Digital Archiving Research Guide, with tips and recommendations for organizing and preserving your personal digital files.
  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
Over the past year our work has been featured in a video and podcast.
Copies of the Personal Digital Archiving zine, featuring a cover drawing of a desktop computer with a rasterized spiral on the screen
  • Scott David Witmer
The Personal Digital Archiving zine is now available in the Digital Preservation Lab and in Shapiro Library Design Lab's Design-o-Matic 4000 vending machine!
Lance Stuchell, Head of the Digital Preservation Unit, points at a screen display of 3.5-inch floppy disks during a World Digital Preservation Day event.
  • Scott David Witmer
The U-M Digital Preservation Unit celebrated World Digital Preservation Day on November 7 with zines, cookies, and a 3.5-inch floppy disk data rescue demonstration.
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
Announcement of our PDF research project.
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  • Christina Min
More on our adventure with recovering Zip disks!
Box of Zip disks
  • Christina Min
The click of death and more fun with Zip disks!