On June 13, 2025, the Embedding Team hosted a hybrid symposium at Bobst Library at NYU to mark the culmination of our multi-year project focused on advancing the preservability of complex digital scholarship. The symposium presented highlights from our research, featured perspectives from publisher and platform partners and debuted the updated version of the Guidelines … Continue reading “Making New Forms of Scholarship Preservable: A Symposium”
The Embedding Team wishes to thank Catherine Cocks and the editors at The H-Net Book Channel for the invitation to contribute a guest post to officially introduce the updated Guidelines for Preservability in New Forms of Scholarship and the Preservability Self-Assessment Tool on the scholarly communications blog Feeding The Elephant.
Introducing a Self-Assessment Tool Embedding Team members Jonathan Greenberg, Angela Spinazzè, Thib Guicherd-Callin, and Scott Witmer traveled to Ghent, Belgium to participate in iPRES2024 where they facilitated a workshop that introduced a draft version of a Self-Assessment tool that is being developed as an additional deliverable of this research. The tool is a response to … Continue reading “How preservable is your Complex Digital Project?”
Shout out to Hannah Brooks-Motl at Amherst College Press! In her recent post to the ACP blog, Hannah Brooks-Motl, acquisition editor with project partner Amherst College Press (ACP) shares her thoughts on the gathering that we convened last fall and how that experience is supporting her in further developing a preservability mindset. Brooks-Motl highlights a … Continue reading “Developing a Preservability Mindset”
Where to begin? I asked myself as I sat down to write this update in which I will describe, from my vantage point as project manager and embedding team member, a bit about how we have defined the embedding process, what it looks like in practice, and an example of an unexpected, early learning. We … Continue reading “Process into Practice”
Thanks to dh+lib and JSTOR Daily for spreading the news about our recently published Guidelines for Preservability in New Forms of Scholarship and Preservability Self-Assessment Tool. We appreciate you!
On December 9th, Jonathan Greenberg, Digital Scholarly Publishing Specialist at NYU presented a lightening talk, titled “A Tool for Assessing the Preservability of Complex Digital Publications” that introduced participants to the new Self-Assessment Tool that we have been developing and work-shopping over the past year. Listen to his talk HERE. Abstract: Embedding Preservability for New … Continue reading “Lightening Talk at CNI Fall 2024 Membership Meeting”
How Preservable is your Complex Digital Project? Introducing a Self Assessment Tool Join us at 14:00 on September 16, 2024! We invite you to experiment with a new Self Assessment Tool that identifies preservability risk factors for complex works and offers recommendations to content creators that could improve your project’s preservation outlook. This 2-hour workshop … Continue reading “Workshop at iPres 2024”
In September, NYU Libraries and the Embedding Team hosted a hybrid on-site/on-line gathering for partners that focused on two areas of inquiry: the embedding experience shared challenges to preservability of complex digital publications Editorial and production staff from six university presses, developers from three publishing platforms, several special guests, and the embedding team shared their … Continue reading “Project Partner Gathering at NYU Libraries”
