[Esip-preserve] Preservation and Access Virtual Education Lab website available

[Ramdeen, Sarah]

Another site of interest....

From: aeri-bounces at lists.ucla.edu [mailto:aeri-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of David Wallace
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 1:25 PM
To: aeri at lists.ucla.edu
Subject: [AERI] PAVEL - Preservation and Access Virtual Education Lab website available

Greetings!

I am pleased to announce the availability of

PAVEL - Preservation and Access Virtual Education Lab <http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/>

This website presents the results of a two year project hosted at the University of Michigan School of Information<http://si.umich.edu/> and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities' Preservation and Access Education and Training Program<http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-education-and-training> to develop and implement a virtual education laboratory featuring digital access and preservation tools.

In support of that objective, digital access and preservation tools have been integrated into 5 Masters' level courses<http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/view/courses> in two specializations preparing information management and cultural heritage professionals: Preservation of Information (PI)<https://www.si.umich.edu/academics/msi/preservation-information-pi> and Archives and Records Management (ARM)<https://www.si.umich.edu/academics/msi/archives-and-records-management-arm>.

The project has been motivated by the recognition that educating a new generation of digital archivists and curators is essential to create, build, and sustain digital humanities collections and to ensure that they are accessible to humanities scholars in a variety of fields.
On this site, you can find information<http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/view/project-info> about the project, the courses<http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/view/courses> in the project, and the evaluations<http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/view/evaluations> used during the project. You can also read cases studies<http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/view/case-studies> discussing and evaluating the experiences of individual courses.
Much of the site is available to anonymous users, but for full functionality, and to find and download PDFs and other project materials, you must create an account<http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/user/register>.
The easiest way to get started exploring this site is to look at the different classes offered. From there you can find links to the digital tools used, the learning modules, and the datasets that supported these learning modules. However, if you would like, you can also access the Tools<http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/view/tools>, Learning Modules<http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/view/learning-modules>, and Datasets<http://www.virtualarchiveslab.org/view/datasets> for the entire project separately by clicking on those links.

Please feel free to contact me directly if I can be of any assistance on your use of this site or if you have any questions on the grant.

Best regards -

David A. Wallace. Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor
School of Information
University of Michigan
davwal at umich.edu<mailto:davwal at umich.edu>

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