Technology Tools – Sarah Tischer Scully

Evaluation of DSpace as a Digital Preservation Platform

Updated May 12, 2026

At Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS), the library hosts two archival collections: our institutional archive, with materials relating to the history of the school, and a faculty scholarship collection, consisting of books, articles and other scholarly publications. We would like to digitize these materials for preservation and access, and I wanted to evaluate one potential platform to use in this work.

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Why Slack Sucks as a Learning Management Platform

Updated May 5, 2026

I am just wrapping up the second of 5 courses for the Digital Curation Certificate at the University of Maine. For some reason, the faculty of this program do not use the university’s official course management platform, Brightspace. Instead, both have been conducted within Slack. I wanted to share what makes this choice so problematic […]

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Tools Review: GitHub, WordPress, Omeka-S

Updated May 1, 2026

Part of my motivation for enrolling in a digital curation program was to learn new-to-me tools, and so far my first class has provided several opportunities in this area. Here are some thoughts on each one: GitHub – I was familiar with the concept of a collaborative version control system, but hadn’t actually found a […]

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