Lesley J MacRae
@lesleyjmacrae.bsky.social
Open research officer and digital preservation enthusiast at the University of Aberdeen. Love libraries, wiki and lego play. Dog lover and confirmed bookworm📚
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Part of our mission to make scholarship available has to include making sure those works can technically be accessed into the future. So, we're excited to announce a new partnership with @jisc.bsky.social and Libnova for long term preservation of our digital archives www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24712/
Preserving tomorrow's history today with new digital partnership
Books and manuscripts held in the University of Aberdeen's collections date back centuries.
www.abdn.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Part of our mission to make scholarship available has to include making sure those works can technically be accessed into the future. So, we're excited to announce a new partnership with @jisc.bsky.social and Libnova for long term preservation of our digital archives www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24712/
@simonjbains.bsky.social a library copy??
Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
December 11, 2024 at 8:26 AM
@simonjbains.bsky.social a library copy??
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“A dog’s capacity for happiness is greater than ours. 🐶
“Anyone can take delight in the super-positive. But taking delight in the marginally positive, that is something dogs do best.” 🐾
Professor Mark Rowlands, author of The Happiness of Dogs, writes. ⬇️
https://buff.ly/4fVzdQa
“Anyone can take delight in the super-positive. But taking delight in the marginally positive, that is something dogs do best.” 🐾
Professor Mark Rowlands, author of The Happiness of Dogs, writes. ⬇️
https://buff.ly/4fVzdQa
December 7, 2024 at 1:13 PM
“A dog’s capacity for happiness is greater than ours. 🐶
“Anyone can take delight in the super-positive. But taking delight in the marginally positive, that is something dogs do best.” 🐾
Professor Mark Rowlands, author of The Happiness of Dogs, writes. ⬇️
https://buff.ly/4fVzdQa
“Anyone can take delight in the super-positive. But taking delight in the marginally positive, that is something dogs do best.” 🐾
Professor Mark Rowlands, author of The Happiness of Dogs, writes. ⬇️
https://buff.ly/4fVzdQa
Great to be part of some of these discussions today
I was delighted to host @williamjnixon.bsky.social of Research Libraries UK @rluk.bsky.social at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social today. Some really engaging discussions and it’s so good to be part of such a vibrant and supportive national community!
November 26, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Great to be part of some of these discussions today
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My work features prominently in a Nature editorial today. Great to see digital preservation being taken seriously.
"Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing
Digital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:02 PM
My work features prominently in a Nature editorial today. Great to see digital preservation being taken seriously.
"Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Digital Preservationist: we’ll need to migrate the cup to a new format before we can use it and don’t get me started on the lack of metadata to find the cup in the first place
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Digital Preservationist: we’ll need to migrate the cup to a new format before we can use it and don’t get me started on the lack of metadata to find the cup in the first place
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Art critic: the cup is a banal, overused trope
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Art critic: the cup is a banal, overused trope
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Science Communicator: I'd like to introduce you to some cup scientists who are looking forward to chatting with you about cups, and to get your perspectives on whether the cup is full or not
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Science Communicator: I'd like to introduce you to some cup scientists who are looking forward to chatting with you about cups, and to get your perspectives on whether the cup is full or not
November 24, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Digital Preservationist: we’ll need to migrate the cup to a new format before we can use it and don’t get me started on the lack of metadata to find the cup in the first place
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Digital Preservationist: we’ll need to migrate the cup to a new format before we can use it and don’t get me started on the lack of metadata to find the cup in the first place
Great to find resources to help us on our digital preservation journey
November 7 is World Digital Preservation Day! Here is a toolkit for community archives from the Digital Preservation Coalition
www.dpconline.org/digipres/imp...
#WDPD2024 #archives #library 📚
www.dpconline.org/digipres/imp...
#WDPD2024 #archives #library 📚
November 7, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Great to find resources to help us on our digital preservation journey
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Inspiring interview with Jess Wade, someone who is actually getting shit done. Made me teary 💛
“There’s a whole community of us, of outspoken people who are really proactive about changing academia. And it’s not a small group. It’s big.”
www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
“There’s a whole community of us, of outspoken people who are really proactive about changing academia. And it’s not a small group. It’s big.”
www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
October 2, 2023 at 8:22 AM
Inspiring interview with Jess Wade, someone who is actually getting shit done. Made me teary 💛
“There’s a whole community of us, of outspoken people who are really proactive about changing academia. And it’s not a small group. It’s big.”
www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
“There’s a whole community of us, of outspoken people who are really proactive about changing academia. And it’s not a small group. It’s big.”
www.theguardian.com/science/2023...