Archives
November 8, 2018
Katherine Skinner
Dr. Katherine Skinner is the Executive Director of the Educopia Institute, a not-for-profit educational organization that empowers collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge. She is the founding program director for the MetaArchive Cooperative, a community-owned and community-governed digital preservation network founded in 2004 that now has more than 50 member institutions in four … Continue reading Katherine Skinner
November 7, 2018
Community Cultivation, Revisited
I actually tried to stand in the way of Educopia’s founding! I’m the first to admit it. A dozen years ago, I was the naysayer. I really didn’t think we could sustain a nonprofit organization centered on the science of community and collaboration. I didn’t lack conviction that our field needed a more rigorous, structured … Continue reading Community Cultivation, Revisited
November 7, 2018
Sam Meister
Sam Meister is the Preservation Communities Manager, working with the MetaArchive Cooperative and BitCurator Consortium communities. Previously, he worked as Digital Archivist and Assistant Professor at the University of Montana. Sam holds a Master of Library and Information Science degree from San Jose State University and a B.A. in Visual Arts from the University of … Continue reading Sam Meister
November 6, 2018
Melanie Schlosser
Melanie Schlosser is the Scholarly Communications Program Leader, working with the Library Publishing Coalition and other communities and projects related to scholarly communication. Before coming to Educopia, Melanie spent almost ten years as a faculty member at the Ohio State University Libraries, working with digital publishing, the institutional repository, and a variety of other scholarly … Continue reading Melanie Schlosser
November 5, 2018
Jessica Meyerson
Jessica Meyerson is Research Program Officer for Educopia Institute and coordinating member of the Software Preservation Network – a role that allows her to promote the essential role of software preservation in responsible and effective digital stewardship. In her role as Research Program Officer, Jessica works across institutions, communities, and sectors to support applied research … Continue reading Jessica Meyerson
November 4, 2018
Hannah Ballard
Hannah Ballard is the Communications Manager, providing outreach strategy and support across all of Educopia’s affiliated communities and research projects. She also serves as Project manager for the Library Publishing Curriculum initiative. Hannah received her B.A. in History from the University of Kansas, and studied History at the graduate level at the University of Texas … Continue reading Hannah Ballard
November 3, 2018
Caitlin Perry
Caitlin Perry is Educopia’s Administrative Coordinator, offering support across all of Educopia’s affiliated communities and the research division. Before coming to Educopia, Caitlin worked as a copywriter, operations manager at a tech start-up, book publicist, and an ice cream maker. She received her B.A. in English from Skidmore College and is currently pursuing an MLIS … Continue reading Caitlin Perry
November 2, 2018
Alex Chassanoff
Alexandra Chassanoff is a Research Program Officer at Educopia. Previously, she was a DLF/CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Software Curation at the MIT Libraries and prior to that, spent seven years working as the Project Manager on BitCurator and BitCurator Access. She received her MS and PhD in Information Science from the University of North Carolina … Continue reading Alex Chassanoff
September 13, 2018
Educopia Institute Annual Report 2017
Together, we’re capable of incredible things. At Educopia, we believe in the power of connection, collaboration, and co-creation. Spanning boundaries, sectors, and fields, we use Educopia’s community cultivation model to unite people and institutions around shared challenges in digital preservation, scholarly communications, and continuing education. We help organizations work collectively to ensure knowledge is sustainably … Continue reading Educopia Institute Annual Report 2017
September 5, 2018
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)plus Toolkit
Enter Toolkit Training Students to manage ETD+ research outputs The ETD+ Toolkit is an approach to improving student and faculty research output management. Focusing on the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) as a mile-marker in a student’s research trajectory, it provides in-time advice to students and faculty about avoiding common digital loss scenarios for the … Continue reading Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)plus Toolkit
September 5, 2018
Nexus LAB: Curriculum
Enter Curriculum About the Curriculum The Nexus LAB team, in partnership with Toolkit Consulting, issued this fully adaptable and customizable set of seven leadership-focused curriculum modules in 2017. These modules are freely available for trainers and workshop leaders to adopt, adapt, and use when delivering leadership development and training offerings. This curriculum development was made … Continue reading Nexus LAB: Curriculum
July 24, 2018
Scaling Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI)
The use of born-digital information requires ongoing support of underlying software that supports its application; a dependency that is challenged by the complexity of digital environments and the inherent obsolescence of developing technologies. In response, many organizations are engaged in the collection and preservation of software. However, no single organization can collect all of the … Continue reading Scaling Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI)
July 24, 2018
BitCurator.edu
The BitCurator.edu project is a two-year effort funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study and advance the adoption of digital forensics tools and methods in libraries and archives through professional education efforts. This project is a partnership between Educopia Institute and the School of Information and Library Science at the … Continue reading BitCurator.edu
July 24, 2018
Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training
The Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training project is engaging in multi-stakeholder scenario planning and developing a shared vision for expanding and supporting digital curation and preservation training. The project will contribute to the continued growth of the National Digital Platform by strengthening and improving the sustainability of digital curation training resources available to librarians, … Continue reading Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Odum Institute
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Odum Institute
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: New York University
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: New York University
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Stanford University Libraries
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Stanford University Libraries
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Woodson Research Center, Rice University
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Woodson Research Center, Rice University
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: New York Public Library
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: New York Public Library
June 30, 2018
OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Mount Holyoke College
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., launched the Open Source Software Archival Workflow (OSSArcFlow) research project in July 2017. This two year project draws together 12 partner institutions from different cultural heritage sectors to investigate, … Continue reading OSSArcFlow As-Is Workflow: Mount Holyoke College