All publications are made available in Adobe .pdf. Members of the Digital Information Management Program also publish to the following blogs:
Jennifer Ricker, Amy Rudersdorf
Forthcoming 2010. Archival Outlook
Discusses the rationale for archiving state agency social networking sites, outlines the technical limitations of Archive-It in this arena, provides lessons learned about scoping issues related to social networking sites, and highlights the areas in which Archive-It successfully captures this content.
Kelly Eubank, Amy Rudersdorf
November 2010. General distribution online.
This document is intended to offer guidance to government employees about the management and retention of metadata under North Carolina's public records laws and state and federal discovery rules for civil litigation. The goal is to provide information and guidance for public employees to understand their responsibilities and liabilities related to metadata.
Lisa Gregory
October 2010. SAA Research Forum. Accompanies presentation by Jennifer Ricker.
As the official permanent depository for all North Carolina state publications, the State Library of North Carolina is concerned with preservation and access of these materials, regardless of format. This paper describes our efforts at file format migration. With a limited budget and programming resources, we investigated appropriate migration file formats that match our current and projected needs, as well as open source tools that would normalize and
document that migration. We found that, although far from perfect, there are tools that can effectively migrate a number of prevalent formats on a case-by-case basis. Work still needs to be accomplished to scale migration up to production level.
Kelly Eubank, Jennifer Ricker
2009. Issued to North Carolina State Agencies
These guidelines, issued statewide, "help and encourage state agencies to develop a presence on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and provide guidance to ensure social media use complies with public records and archiving laws." (See Gov. Perdue's press release for additional information.)
Kelly Eubank, Jennifer Ricker, and Amy Rudersdorf
April 2009. DigCCurr 2009 Conference, Chapel Hill, NC (full proceedings)
This paper discusses the impact of digital publishing, e-mail, and electronic records management on the North Carolina State Archives and the State Library of North Carolina, the entities responsible for gathering, providing access to, and permanently storing state agency electronic publications and records in North Carolina. In addition to outlining the current state of digital government information in North Carolina as evidenced by recent survey data, this article touches on future plans and collaborative efforts, both within state government and with other states, as well as some of the challenges to successful implementation that the State Archives and State Library must overcome.
Kristin Martin and Kelly Eubank
January 2007. Hypermedia and Multimedia. Vol. 13 Issue 1
The North Carolina State Archives and State Library of North Carolina collaborated to develop the North Carolina State Government Website Archives, a collection of captured government websites dating back to the fall of 2005 and available to the public for research. This paper explores the process by which the Web archives were developed - from the methodology of how to collect information on the Web through the selection process for determining material to be included in the Web archives and the choice of Archive-It, a service available through the Internet Archive, as the technology for running the Web archives.
Kristin Martin
September 2006. Internet Reference Services Quarterly. Vol. 11 No. 2
This article discusses changes in cataloging and workflow designed to accommodate an increased amount of digital information. It also presents a model for managing digital publications in the context of state government publications as developed by Kristin Martin, the Digital Metadata Manager/Documents Cataloger at the State Library of North Carolina. The conceptual model covers six aspects of a publication's management: creation, collection, description, storage, access, and preservation.
Christy Allen
June 2006. RLG DigiNews. Vol. 10 No. 3
Offers a summary of the Best Practices Exchange 2006 including an overview of participant discussions, recurring themes of the Exchange, and the four essential elements for building a strong digital preservation program.
Theresa A. Pardo and Brian Burke
April 2006. Public CIO
This article stresses the importance of collaboration between libraries, archives, and state agencies to preserve digital state government information. The authors discuss several examples of successful digital preservation collaborations including the Access to State Government Information Initiative at the State Library of North Carolina. ASGII project manager, Jan Reagan contributed her input to the writing of the article.
Kristin Martin, Jan Reagan, Druscie Simpson, Kelly Eubank, Ron Leach, and Christy Allen
September 2005.
This document formalizes the Department of Cultural Resources’ (DCR’s) commitment to the
long-term or permanent preservation of digital state government assets produced by the State of
North Carolina.
Kristin Martin and Jan Reagan
November 2003.
The White Paper is a “call for action” for North Carolina state government to acknowledge the need to deal
with the issues of digital state information and start laying the groundwork for sustaining
ongoing efforts to realize workable solutions for ensuring the existence, availability, and
usability of government information over time, regardless of format.
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