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This is one person's blog about her experience as a DAS student in the Digital Archives Specialist certificate program that Society of American Archivists is offering.  I found this one post particularly helpful and wanted to share it. Also think the certificate program  looks quite solid.  Check it out
Diary of a DAS Student

CINCH - Digital Preservation ... Easier!

CINCH - Digital Preservation ... Easier!

Introduction to CINCH - YouTube
A short tutorial that introduces CINCH, the Capture, INgest, CHecksum tool developed by the State Library of North Carolina to help libraries and archives collect and process born-digital files on the internet in accordance with digital preservation best practices. For more information, visit http://cinch.nclive.org/. 
Thanks to Peter Kurilecz on the A&A list.,  Archivist and great aggregator of archivist information.

Web Seminars | DuraSpace - Managing Preserving Audio & Video Digital Media

Good information to be had here about Audio and Video online collections.

Webinar 1: The Big Picture: Preserving Audio & Video Digital Media, May 16, 2012

Webinar 2: Creating Access to Audio & Video Digital Media: The Variations on Video Project & the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, June 6, 2012

Webinar 3: Describing Audio & Video Digital Media with Metadata, June 13, 2012

Web Seminars | DuraSpace

Metadata Deluxe / Top 10 List of Embedded Metadata Properties

Here is a great resource from the Embedded Metadata work group of the Visual Resources Association.  Its crosswalks all the common fields in most web and photo software tools: Check it out!

Metadata Deluxe / Top 10 List of Embedded Metadata Properties

Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures

Very interesting blog post on what looks tobe a very useful tool for cultural collections needing ways to display their items.
Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures

AIMS: Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship

The new challenge, Born-Digital. Here is a good review of best practices for all those, think public document archives, fine art collections and historical archives, responsible fore the care and protection of such articles.

AIMS: Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship