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Archive: September 2011 (25 Posts)

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Why Should We Save Our Email?

Posted by: Susan Manus

When was the last time you wrote a letter, on paper?  Other than my note-to-self stickies (my desk usually has a bunch), or greeting cards, I personally have not written much of substance, just on paper, in a long time. These days, of course, we are engulfed in the digital versions of note writing – …

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Voices from the World of Video Archiving

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. I am attending the annual conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) in Frankfurt, Germany, hosted by the Hessischer Rundfunk (the public broadcasting unit for the German state of Hesse), the German public broadcasting archive, …

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B is for Bit Preservation

Posted by: Martha Anderson

Continuing the alphabetical series of digital preservation topics. Recently one of our California partners commented on the irony of the earthquakes occurring in Colorado and Maryland, two partner sites in areas not prone to earthquakes.  This practice of keeping  copies  of digital collections in geographically diverse areas is one technique employed for bit preservation. Fortunately …

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Election Websites Reveal Technology Adoption Trends

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Victoria Priester, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. After completing the North Carolina Public Outreach and Education Project, my next Junior Fellow internship activity involved analyzing trends in web technology on sites featured in the Library of Congress Web Archives. I focused on congressional campaign web sites …

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IMLS Grants Relating to Digital Preservation

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The following is a guest post by Barrie Howard, Program Management Coordinator, NDIIPP. This post is the second in a short series about U.S. government grant programs that have funded digital preservation since 2000. Readers can discover what the Library of Congress has accomplished through NDIIPP from the program’s website, and my previous post covered …