Project Highlights

“Africa Past and Present” Podcast Audience Grows

afripod In August the MATRIX/History Department Africa Past and Present podcast, co-hosted by Peter Alegi and Peter Limb, set new records for unique visitors and for total number of visits in a single month. With four months left (and six more shows) in 2009, download stats are already nearly double the downloads from all of 2008. ...

Women in Science: New digital media archive

Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil's image from Institutions de Physique (1740) The Women in Science website is a new digital media archive that uses KORA, MATRIX’s digital repository application, to deliver text access to the written works of several women scientists, including the works of the marquise Du Châtelet, and biographies written by leading historians of science. The website is available through the participation and support of ...

MATRIX Senior Staff Members Participate in MSU Digital Curation Planning Project

The project team for a new digital curation planning initiative at Michigan State University includes two MATRIX senior staff members: Lisa Schmidt, electronic records archivist at MATRIX and digital preservation analyst for the University Archives & Historical Collections (UAHC), serves as project manager for the initiative, and MATRIX digital librarian Catherine Foley is also part of the project team.

The Michigan State University Digital Curation Planning Project is a collaboration led by the UAHC with the MSU Libraries and MATRIX, and supported by the Office of the Vice Provost of Libraries, Computing and Technology. Anticipated project outcomes include a digital curation plan and guidelines to ensure trustworthy preservation, management, and stewardship of the university’s digital assets and intellectual property. The project team includes MSU archivists, librarians, IT specialists, and digital content managers.

For more information on the MSU Digital Curation Planning Project, visit http://msudcp.archives.msu.edu.

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