The Way We Were: Nova Scotia in Film, 1917-1957

The Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management has released a new digital collection called The Way We Were: Nova Scotia in Film, 1917-1957. An alternate URL is via its YouTube channel http://youtube.com/user/nsarchives/http://youtube.com/user/nsarchives/ According to an announcement on the ARCAN-L mailing list (02010 09 21), the collection consists of "96 'movies' that showcase the early years of amateur and professional filmmaking in Nova Scotia."

BagIt: Transferring Content for Digital Preservation, a Library of Congress video on the WePreserve.eu YouTube channel

The announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02009 09 28) contains this blurb about "bags" and the BagIt specification and open source utilities (SourceForge and RubyForge) for transferring digital content which is described in this short video, "BagIt: Transferring Content for Digital Preservation", a Library of Congress video on the WePreserve.eu YouTube channel:

The Library of Congress - with the California Digital Library and Stanford University - has developed guidelines for creating and moving standardized digital containers, called "bags."

Bags have a sparse, uncomplicated structure that transcends differences in institutional data, data architecture, formats and practices. A bag's minimal but essential metadata is machine readable, which makes it easy to automate ingest of the data. Bags can be sent over computer networks or physically moved using portable storage devices. Bags have built-in inventory checking, to help ensure that content transferred intact. Bags are flexible and can work in many different settings, including situations where the content is located in more than one place. This video describes the preparation and transfer of data over the network in bags.

BagIt: Transferring Content for Digital Preservation