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Diversity of Access to Digital Preservation Collections; first results from the NDSA Storage Survey

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. What are the access requirements for digital cultural heritage collections? This was one of the questions that the National Digital Stewardship Alliance started exploring earlier this year. Different access requirements result in very different kinds of preservation storage …

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F is for Forensics

Posted by: Martha Anderson

This post is part of a continuing series of alphabetically titled digital preservation topics. A few months ago, I met a special collections librarian at a conference. I asked if her library was receiving digital materials in their acquisitions.  She said, “Yes, but we are not doing anything with them at this time.”  I suggested …

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We Can Haz Standards? Yes, We Can!

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I’m the co-chair of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards Working Group along with Andrea Goethals of Harvard University. Over the past year, the working group has been engaged in a project to identify, describe and …

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The Artifactual Elements of Born-Digital Records, Part 1

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In Carl Fleischhauer’s recent four-part blog series, he discussed the challenges of, and different approaches to, capturing both the informational and the artifactual aspects of physical books and photographic negatives when reproducing these records in digital …

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Digital Preservation and the 1963 Kennedy Assassination Study

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

Events associated with the Kennedy assassination offer a compelling case study regarding obsolete data formats and digital preservation. Shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy on this day 48 years ago, an organization turned to the latest computer technology in an effort to study the tragedy.  From November 26 through December 3, 1963, the National …

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Unbreaking News You Can Use: The National Digital Newspaper Program

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by David Brunton, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. I have heard the National Digital Newspaper Program jokingly described as “putting breaking new online, within 200 years.”  In some ways, it’s a fitting tag line: the most current newspaper pages released …

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Have You Got The Right Stuff? Or, Is Your Digital Content Sustainable?

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Steve McCollum, Digital Media Project Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. Central to any digital preservation strategy is making sure that the stuff you have is the right stuff.  To that end, the Library of Congress endeavors to make sure that digital image files delivered by contractors in a …