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Archive: October 2011 (27 Posts)

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ViewShare.org: Create and Share Interfaces to Our Digital Cultural Heritage

Posted by: Susan Manus

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. (Editor’s note: the Viewshare program was …

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Open Source Tool Speeds Up Web Archive Scoping

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

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 …

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PREMIS, for Digital Preservation

Posted by: Susan Manus

Note:  We will occasionally post material to The Signal, with updates, that was previously published only on our website.  The following is an article from our “Meeting the Challenge” series, October, 2010. Behind every digital object, there is usually metadata with descriptive information about the object.  But the library world is all too aware that …

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Exchange of Best Digital Preservation Practices in Lexington, KY

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

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 …

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E is for ecology

Posted by: Martha Anderson

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, …

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The Future of the Past of the Web

Posted by: Susan Manus

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 …