preservation strategy for the ucla civil rights project
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Presentation in UCLA Special Collections on March 6, 2013 about my preservation strategy for the UCLA Civil Rights Project.TRANSCRIPT
Preservation Strategy for the UCLA Civil Rights Project
Rebekah CummingsUCLA Special Collections March 6, 2013
Overview
•My involvement in the Civil Rights Project/
The Civil Rights Project Archives
• Dataverse for CRP data
• eScholarship site for CRP publications
• Evaluation of legacy datasets inherited by the
CRP Archive
CRP Dataverse
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/faces/StudyListingPage.xhtml?vdcId=1083
CRP eScholarship site
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/civilrightsprojectucla
Legacy Datasets
• Evaluating datasets inherited by the
Civil Rights Project Archives
• Relied on Libbie’s
institutional knowledge
• Appraisal of datasets
• What stays, what goes?
Questions?