The following is a guest post by Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new site, Viewshare.org, a platform for empowering curators, archivists, and librarians to provide access to the digital cultural heritage objects they are preserving. If you have been following us …
Archive for October, 2011 (27 posts)
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
This is a guest post from Kathleen Kenney, Digitization Specialist, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina. The State Library of North Carolina, in collaboration with the North Carolina State Archives, has been archiving North Carolina state agency web sites since 2005 and social media since 2009. Since then, we have crawled over …
Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. I recently attended the Best Practices Exchange 2011, held October 20-22 in Lexington, KY. The meeting focuses on the work of state archives and libraries to preserve state government digital information, although practitioners from other kinds of memory organizations are welcome. This was …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
A continuing series of digital preservation topics organized alphabetically. I have always wanted to write something entitled, Everything I know about digital preservation, I learned in my garden. I think it is because I have always perceived the practice and development around digital preservation to be organic. A garden is the interaction among insects and birds, microorganisms, weather conditions, soil chemistry, …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. The Future of the Past of the Web was a well-named event hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition, JISC, and the British Library on October 7th. It followed in a sequence of DPC events on …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Like many of you, I’ve got hundreds (thousands?) of photos. This is one of my favorites: It’s not the most flattering photo in my collection, but it was taken by a good friend back when I was still a crazy grad student, and I crack up every time I see it. Of course, the photo …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources
Guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead and NDSA Content Working Group Co-Chair. As announced earlier this month, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The goal of the survey is to …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. This is the final blog on the topic of informational and artifactual values in the digitization of books (and other documents) and photographic negatives and transparencies. Here are links to the book-related blogs: Part 1 and Part 2. Part …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure
