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Archive: March 2014 (19 Posts)

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Personal Digital Archiving 2014

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The fifth annual Personal Digital Archiving conference is on April 10-11 and you can still register online until tomorrow, April 1. This conference attracts a variety of information-technology professionals with a range of digital-preservation interests, mainly oriented toward the needs of individuals rather than the digital collections of cultural institutions. Topics include – but are …

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Managing a Library of Congress Worth of Data

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Kate Zwaard and David Brunton, both Supervisory IT Specialists in the Library of Congress Repository Development Center. The Library of Congress’s digital collections are growing at a rate of 1.5 terabytes per day (that means, by the popular measure, we collect a “Library of Congress”  worth of data …

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Personal Digital Archiving: The Basics of Scanning

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Although the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance focus on digital preservation and access, many of the personal digital archiving questions that the general public ask us are about scanning. Though scanning is a separate issue from digital preservation, scanning does generate digital files that need to be …

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Where are the Born-Digital Archives Test Data Sets?

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

By Butch Lazorchak and Trevor Owens We’ve talked in the past on the Signal on the need more applied research in digital preservation and stewardship. This is a key issue addressed by the 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship, which dives in a little deeper to suggest that there’s a great need to strengthen the …

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What Could Curation Possibly Mean?

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

My colleague Trevor Owens wrote a great blog post entitled “What Do you Mean by Archive?” This led to a follow-up discussion where I publicly announced on Facebook that I wanted to write about the term “curation.”  Its seemingly widespread use in popular culture in the past 4-5 years has fascinated me. Every time I …

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“Digital Culture is Mass Culture”: An interview with Digital Conservator Dragan Espenschied

Posted by: Trevor Owens

At the intersection of digital preservation, art conservation and folklore you can find many of Dragan Espenschied’s projects. After receiving feedback and input from Dragan for a recent post on interfaces to digital collections and geocities I heard that he is now stepping into the role of digital conservator at Rhizome. To that end, I’m …

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New look and feel for Viewshare

Posted by: Abbey Potter

Earlier this month Trevor Owens announced that a new version of Viewshare is open for user testing and comment. Following this public beta, our plan is to move all users over to the new platform in the next few months.  When this happens your Viewshare account, data and views will all transition seamlessly. You will, …

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Nominations Now Open for the 2014 NDSA Innovation Awards

Posted by: Trevor Owens

 The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group is proud to open the nominations for the 2014 NDSA Innovation Awards. As a diverse membership group with a shared commitment to digital preservation, the NDSA understands the importance of innovation and risk-taking in developing and supporting a broad range of successful digital preservation activities. These awards …

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A Regional NDSA?

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Kim Schroeder, a lecturer at the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science. Several years ago before the glory of the annual NDSA conference, professionals across America were seeking more digital curation literature and professional contacts.  Basic questions like ‘what is the first step in digital …