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Archive: October 2011 (27 Posts)

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Interview with Brett Bobley of the Office for Digital Humanities at the NEH

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I’m excited to share this third interview for Insights, an occasional feature of The Signal sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation working group members and individuals working on projects related to preservation, access and …

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Piggybacking to Avoid Going Down the Rabbit Hole, or What I Learned at the First DPOE Workshop

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post from Sam Meister, Digital Archivist, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. During the week of September 20 – 23, 2011, a group of individuals from all across the United States descended on the Library of Congress to attend the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) initiative’s first ever Train the …

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Digital Archives Day at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

In truth, every day is digital archives day here at the Library. But, in honor of the official Digital Archives Day, I thought it would be useful to mention some of the pertinent resources the Library has or helps support.  There are two basic categories: 1) digital content collections, and 2) information about digital projects …

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Digital Preservation Pioneer: Helen Tibbo

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Helen Tibbo is a descendant of Mayflower settlers Miles Standish and John Alden but she doesn’t flaunt her pedigree or socialize exclusively with snooty blue bloods. It’s difficult to say exactly how her Massachusetts cultural roots have defined her but she does embody bedrock New England characteristics such as self-reliance and practicality. And these traits …

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D is for data

Posted by: Martha Anderson

Part of a continuing series of alphabetically chosen digital preservation topics. I believe a “picture is worth a thousand words” especially when masses of digits form a new shape that presents fresh insights. The Library and National Endowment for the Humanities have been working with partners for several years to build a digital archive of historic …

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Take Our Web Archiving Survey!

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead, and NDSA Content Working Group Co-Chair The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Content Working Group is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The …

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Digital Asset Management in the Real World: Finish Moves and Stone Cold Stunners

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest blog post by Gloria Gonzalez, a UCLA Library and Information Science graduate student and former NDIIPP Junior Fellow. I hobnobbed with celebrities in Hollywood recently.  And I mean real A-list talent: I got to spend quality time with the archival stars of the moving image world at the Association of …

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Graduates To Sow Seeds of New Training Program Across U.S.

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post from Ellen O’Donnell, Senior Technical Writer, on assignment to the Office of Strategic Initiatives from the National Institutes of Health. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  The Nevada State Library and Archives. The local history center of the Hartford, Conn., Public Library. These organizations and 21 others involved …