Preservation Strategy for the UCLA Civil Rights Project

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Preservation Strategy for the UCLA Civil Rights Project Rebekah Cummings UCLA Special Collections March 6, 2013

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Presentation in UCLA Special Collections on March 6, 2013 about my preservation strategy for the UCLA Civil Rights Project.

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Preservation Strategy for the UCLA Civil Rights Project

Rebekah CummingsUCLA Special Collections March 6, 2013

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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

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CRP Dataverse

http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/faces/StudyListingPage.xhtml?vdcId=1083

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CRP eScholarship site

http://www.escholarship.org/uc/civilrightsprojectucla

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Legacy Datasets

• Evaluating datasets inherited by the

Civil Rights Project Archives

• Relied on Libbie’s

institutional knowledge

• Appraisal of datasets

• What stays, what goes?

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Questions?