The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. Here is the third in my series of “Ask the Recommending Officer” posts. This time I feature a conversation with Atish Chatterjee about the Indian General Elections 2009 Web Archive. Who are you and what is your job at the Library of …
Archive for January, 2012 (24 posts)
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. Here on The Signal we often talk about the importance of preserving your personal digital materials and we provide a variety of resources offering guidance on what actions to take. One aspect we have spoken of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
While I was exploring the new National Archives and Records Administration Transcription Pilot Project this week, I thought about how many innovative, and frankly cool, crowdsourcing platforms the libraries and archives communities launched in the past year. The New York Public Library What’s on the Menu project, the NARA Citizen Archivist Dashboard, The University of …
Posted in: Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources, Videos and Podcasts
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, a Digital Archivist and Abbey Potter, a Program Officer in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. When historians look back on late 20th and early 21st century science they will undoubtedly be interested in understanding how the web has facilitated, altered and otherwise shifted …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
This is a guest post by Bradley Daigle, Director of Digital Curation Services and Digital Strategist for Special Collections, University of Virginia; Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland; and Christopher (Cal) Lee, Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
This is a guest post by Lisa Gregory, Digital Projects Liaison, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina. About two weeks ago, I tried a little thought experiment. Throughout the course of an afternoon, for each person I spoke with or saw, I imagined myself talking to them about digital preservation. From grocery store …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. With the large size and amount of my personal digital archives, my archiving problem may be a bit extreme, but I think a description of my archiving system may be helpful to many people who want to save and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
The following is a guest post from Micah Beck, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, and Jane Mandelbaum, Trevor Owens and Jefferson Bailey in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. What important big ideas are just around the corner in digital stewardship? What …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Note: In the interest of long term access, we will occasionally post material to The Signal that was previously published only on our website. The following is an updated version of an article from our “Meeting the Challenge” series. The World Digital Library sounds improbable at first – many nations providing open access to highlights …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
