[MCN-L] Standards for home digital preservation?

2012-12-06 Thread Ari Davidow
At JWA, we have a page on our website giving people basic preservation advice (http://jwa.org/stories/how-to/preservation ) and links for them to learn more. We recently added a paragraph on digital preservation (which reflects advice I, personally, would not give, and will be modified soon). But

[MCN-L] Standards for home digital preservation?

2012-12-06 Thread Erwin Verbruggen
Hi Ari, home digital preservation has over the last few years received a trendy term: Personal Archiving. Searching for it online should give you a good overview of sources currently out there - for instance: * on the Library of Congress's website:

[MCN-L] Standards for home digital preservation?

2012-12-06 Thread Johnston, Leslie
Actually, the Personal Digital Archiving conference has been held every year since 2010. The next conference in 2013 will be jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and the University of Maryland MITH: http://mith.umd.edu/pda2013/ And thanks for mentioning our LC personal digital

[MCN-L] Standards for home digital preservation?

2012-12-06 Thread Ari Davidow
This are great! Thanks, Erwin. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Erwin Verbruggen everbruggen at beeldengeluid.nl wrote: Hi Ari, home digital preservation has over the last few years received a trendy term: Personal Archiving. Searching for it online should give you a good overview of

[MCN-L] Server advice requested

2012-12-06 Thread Robin White Owen
Hello all, First, thank you to the people who got in touch with examples of on-line learning platforms built in Drupal. Now I have a request for completely different kind of information. We need to spec a computer to act as a server for a Linux based (LAMP) project and would greatly

[MCN-L] Server advice requested

2012-12-06 Thread Bruce Wyman
Robin ? Are cloud-based servers from Amazon / Rackspace / Linode an option or do you need a physical server on site? I'd lobby pretty hard for the former if you're not sure. -bw. On Dec 6, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Robin White Owen robin at mediacombo.net wrote: Hello all, First, thank you to

[MCN-L] Server advice requested

2012-12-06 Thread Josh Goldblum
hey Robin Meant to jump on the last post. We do a ton of work with Drupal work. Drupal and Expression Engine are both really fantastic CMS solutions; we usually lean towards Drupal 7, since its open source, has a large dev community, etc. I would definitely try and host this on a MediaTemple

[MCN-L] Server advice requested

2012-12-06 Thread Jaki Levy
Hi All - Robin - it's not clear to me what kind of servers you're looking for. That said, I wanted to make sure people knew about Pantheon for Drupal hosting. They provide you with great setups for dev, staging, and production. They also make migration code VERY easy. Their servers are running

[MCN-L] Server advice requested

2012-12-06 Thread Frank E. Thomson
Dell makes some nice smaller servers and you don't have to buy an OS from them, you can install your own. Frank Thomson, Curator Asheville Art Museum PO Box 1717 Asheville, NC 28802 2 South Pack Square 828.253.3227 tel 828.257.4503 fax www.ashevilleart.org fthomson at ashevilleart.org Engaging,

[MCN-L] MCN Pro Workshop: still time to sign up!

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Longo
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