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Archive: January 2012 (24 Posts)

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The World Digital Library Backstory

Posted by: Susan Manus

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 …

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Partly Cloudy: Trends in Distributed and Remote Preservation Storage–More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. As discussed in a previous post, the NDSA Infrastructure Working Group recently conducted an extensive survey of NDSA member preservation storage systems. While the survey examined a wide range of preservation storage trends and activities, it …

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Taking Digital Preservation to Science Online 2012

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. This week, my Library of Congress colleague Abbey Potter and I will participate in ScienceOnline 2012, an international unconference on science and the web. We are both excited to learn more about the interesting and valuable resources scientists, …

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A Tale of a Disappearing Website

Posted by: Martha Anderson

This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. Some of you may have heard the recent news that The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program, including their website, was to be terminated on January 15 due to a loss of funding. This impending loss grabbed the …

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The January 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation newsletter is Now Available

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The January 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation newsletter is now available (PDF). In this issue: *A review of the Digital Formats Sustainability website and news about the addition of 35 geospatial formats to the site *Digital stewards are invited to comment on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI on public …

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Truth, Justice and the “Authenticity” Way

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

Why should you care if a resource is authentic? Well, you’d care if you were a presidential candidate and an altered photograph contributed in a way to your ultimate loss. You might also care if you were a NASA scientist and a forgery introduced doubt about one of your agency’s most stellar historic achievements. Most …

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Digging into a Slice of Digital History

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

This is a guest post by Ellen O’Donnell, Technical Writer, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, who recently spent a year on detail in OSI. When shepherd Christopher Day made a routine check of his boss’s flock, he noticed that a sheep was missing. Word got around town. An alert policeman spotted a suspicious …

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Short Film: Digital Antiquities

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Digital Antiquities is a 15-minute science-fiction film that considers the social impact of data recovery in the not-too-distant future. Its summary states, “By 2036, data loss has become a thing of the past. All digital media is instantly uploaded to the internet and permanently stored in the cloud, safely backed-up on servers scattered around the …