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Mon, 02 Sep 2002 00:00:00 -0700

The Growth of Digital Image Archives: Can We Toll the Bell for Microfilm?

By Joan E. Thomas

The risks if the DPLA won’t create a full-strength national digital library system: Setbacks for K-12, family literacy, local libraries, preservation, digital divide efforts?

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:39:30 -0700

David H. Rothman maintains that the Harvard-originated national digital library initiative is an underachiever in K-12 matters and identifies other areas where the DPLA could better serve America's libraries and their users. These areas range from family literacy to the content creation needs of local libraries, preservation and digital divide efforts. Rothman details specific remedies to these challenges consistent with his strong advocacy on behalf of strengthening national digital library systems.

Breaking Down Link Rot: The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive's Examination of URL Stability*

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:04:19 -0700

This guide for researches by Sarah Rhodes focuses on the highly significant impact of "link rot", which refers to the loss or removal of content at a particular Uniform Resource Locator (URL) over time. When an attempt is made to open a documented link, either different or irrelevant information has replaced the expected content, or else the link is found to be broken, typically expressed by a 404 or "not found" error message. This is not an uncommon occurrence. Web-based materials often disappear as URLs change and web sites are changed, updated, or deleted.

Of Refrigerators and E-Discovery

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:01:50 -0700

Conrad J. Jacoby's commentary offers perspective on the complexities and nuances of technology innovations, in the home and in the office, causing him to reflect on how incomplete or incorrect impressions of how a responding party organizes and manages its business records impacts knowledge management and e-records.

Cloud Computing for Lawyers

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:50:44 -0700

This is Nicole L. Black's primer for the legal profession on an emerging technology which is defined as a "type of computing that is comparable to grid computing, [and] relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. The goal of cloud computing is to apply traditional supercomputing power (normally used by military and research facilities) to perform tens of trillions of computations per second."

Conrad Jacoby's E-Discovery Update: Attorneys, Experts, and E-Discovery Competence

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:07:54 -0700

Conrad J. Jacoby focuses on two recent cases that emphasize the credibility problems counsel can face in the context of e-discovery - and suggest that outside assistance may be the only way for some counsel to demonstrate that these materials are being managed in a competent and trustworthy way.

Conrad Jacoby's E-Discovery Update: Minimizing E-Mail Archive Data Conversion Issues

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0700

According to Conrad J. Jacoby e-mail conversion is done without a second thought in many e-discovery projects, and the results are often satisfactory to both producing and requesting parties. However, each major e-mail archive architecture uses a fundamentally different method for storing information about e-mail messages, and sometimes some collateral damage will occur.