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Archive: March 2016 (8 Posts)

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Digital Preservation at the State Library of Massachusetts

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

This is a guest post by Stefanie Ramsay. How do you capture, preserve and make accessible thousands of born-digital documents produced by state agencies, published to varying websites without any notification or consistency and which are often relocated or removed over time? This is the complex task that the State Library of Massachusetts faces in …

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A National Digital Stewardship Resident at the U.S. Senate

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

This is a guest post by John Caldwell. On Friday, January 29, 2016, I hosted my fellow National Digital Stewardship residents, their mentors, and the NDSR program staff to our cohort’s first enrichment session at the US Senate. The morning started with two presentations. First, Mark Evans, Director of Digital Archives and Information Resources Management …

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Advancing Institutional Progress through Digital Repository Assessment

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The following is a guest post by Jessica Tieman. Three quarters of the way into my twelve-month National Digital Stewardship Residency at the U.S. Government Publishing Office, I reflect on the success and challenges of my project. I also recognize how the outcome of my work will impact the future of the GPO, its business units, the communities within the …

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A Millennium of Persian Literary Tradition Digitized

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

This is guest post by Hirad Dinavari, reference specialist for the Iranian World Collections, African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Watch a video of Hirad Dinavari giving a guided tour of the exhibition “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book.” The exciting thing about working at the Library is that you …

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NDSR Update: Enrichment Session at the AIA

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

This is a guest post by Valerie Collins. As part of the National Digital Stewardship Residency DC program, each resident develops and hosts a half-day enrichment session for the cohort and their mentors. The topic is up to the resident, as long as it is on some aspect of digital preservation. For my enrichment session, …

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Assessing Digital Preservation at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

Posted by: Abbey Potter

The following is a guest post by Alice Sara Prael. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library began the “Access to Legacy” project in 2007 with the goal to digitize, describe, and permanently retain millions of presidential documents, photographs, and audiovisual recordings. Since the project began the Library has accumulated over 150 terabytes of data. With …