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We just deployed a major re-architecting of our digital ingest services which we believe will improve the energy efficiency, speed and maintainability of this pipeline. This project has been a while in the making, so I thought I’d take the time to reflect on where we’ve been, where we are now, and what comes next.

In January, we announced the initial release of the Fluxx Exporter tool, an open-source tool that integrates with the grants management system Fluxx for the purposes of automating exports of select elements of grant records. In the months since its release, our team responsible for continued development and maintenance of the tool (in close consultation with our Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library partner) tested the application with a cohort of Fluxx users at five institutions to identify opportunities to improve the tool based on user experience and feedback. I’d like to share the results of that testing and our planned next steps to address usability issues and add new functionality.

Attending the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) may seem an odd choice for an archivist located in New York, but the values and work of the RAC and the conference host organization, the Texas Digital Library (TDL) are strongly aligned in areas of community building, open infrastructure, and broad access.

An unexpected turn of events brought me closer to understanding the importance of preservation. My journey into the Rockefeller Archive Center was slightly unorthodox. With no prior experience in or knowledge of archiving, I was extremely grateful for the opportunity to learn about the field. I leave feeling like a more well-rounded, knowledgeable student.

I’m just back from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), an annual gathering put on by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), held this year in Baltimore. This was my first time at this the conference, so didn’t know quite what to expect. I found it to be a challenging-but-generative space, partially because of the current moment when nonprofits feel very much under attack (a constant theme throughout the conference) and in part because it felt like stepping into a foreign technology landscape. It was, as a result, easier to see the points of dissonance, but I also found that attention to translation and focusing on potential points of relevance yielded some useful insights.