Bits and Pieces | U-M Library

Change is coming to Deep Blue Data!

We are upgrading the software that runs Deep Blue Data to Hyrax2. This upgrade will results in some changes and improvements to the user interface and functionality of the Deep Blue Data repository.

Looking Back on World Digital Preservation Day

A brief photo tour of the Digital Preservation Unit's Pop-Up Digital Archiving event for World Digital Preservation Day 2018.

Personal Digital Archiving Guide Part 3: Storage

Part 3 of the Personal Digital Archiving series looks at storage options for backing up your digital data.

Personal Digital Archiving Revisited

A quick review of Personal Digital Archiving tips.

A New Website for the Digital Preservation Lab

Our Digital Preservation Lab now has a cool website with shared versions of our workflows to transfer material off current and obsolete media; information on new and vintage equipment used in the lab; and a selection of reports and research on born-digital preservation.

Deep into that darkness peering: Our Dark Repository

An examination of our new dark preservation repository with some Poe thrown in for fun!

Understanding thorny file formats - the netCDF Data Curation Format Profile (DCFP)

In the UMich Research Data Services (RDS) group, we see and work with all sorts of data. One particularly thorny variety is netCDF. In Deep Blue Data, we have been getting regular deposits of data in this format, and we didn't know much about it. We had many questions how do we open it, what's its structure, how do researchers create these files and why can the size vary so widely from 100s of MBs to 100s of GBs or even TBs? Jake Carlson, Director of RDS, and I hashed out the idea of...

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