Author: john.dewees

About four months ago I was hired as the Digital Asset Management Lead at the University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries. One of the big areas of work that I am responsible for is establishing a sustainable digital preservation service using (among other resources) Preservica Cloud Professional edition. The organization currently holds digital assets in … Continue reading Migrating Digital Assets from Islandora to Preservica →

DPLA is engaged in a fantastic project to integrate records harvested by DPLA and upload those rights-free materials to Wikimedia Commons so that they might be exposed to a wider audience that they might otherwise receive. For more detailed information on this project as a whole there is a recording of a conference presentation given … Continue reading Adding Images to Wikipedia Articles via DPLA →

So to start, a disclaimer: I certainly don't claim to have all the answers or claim to be an authority on all hiring situations. It is very likely I'm about to express ideas that directly contradict what others have told you in the past, which is pretty common; everyone has specific ideas about how to best … Continue reading Job Hunting Recommendations →

In February I wrote a blog post about a 2020 goal to digitize record sets held by my organization that would be useful to those engaged in genealogical research and that would be unlikely to be in the digital collections of large-scale genealogical databases such as Ancestry or FamilySearch. Despite the ongoing pandemic that work … Continue reading Genealogical Records Sets Revisted →

I wish I could remember where I became aware of this idea and to who to credit it, but I once read that our collective ability to change the climate of an entire planet on a global scale, as we careen towards what seems like an increasingly likely end-result of an uninhabitable planet, is really … Continue reading Creation and Civilization →