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Archive: February 2012 (23 Posts)

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Personal Digital Archiving: An Interview with Jordan Fields of the Kansas City Public Library

Posted by: Susan Manus

Here in the Library’s digital preservation program, we have become more and more active in the realm of personal digital archiving (and see our related blog posts on the subject here).  So it’s of great interest to us when we hear about other such activities happening in libraries around the country.  For example, the Kansas …

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Jason Scott, Rogue Archivist

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

I first encountered Jason Scott in mid- to late-2010 through a colleague who informed that me that if I did not know who he was, that I had better learn.  Since then I have become a big fan of his passion for digital archiving and his drive to save collections and content that few organizations …

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Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone): Stewarding Digital Geospatial Data

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

I had the pleasure of giving a lightning talk (PDF) at last week’s Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, DC. The conference, which is free to Federal government employees, annually brings together over 2700 attendees of all experience levels to discuss the latest in geospatial technologies. I tried to have fun with it, using the …

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Adding to My Reading List: Preserving Email

Posted by: Erin Engle

One of the great things about my job is that I’m constantly absorbing new information about the preservation and access to digital content. Whether it be through relevant reports and white papers or scanning blogs and listservs or responding to email or attending meetings, I’m frequently learning about emerging policies and practices in the digital …

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Staying Afloat in the Deluge of Health Information

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following 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. If you’re like me, you’re a fan of online resources for health and medical information.  Typically, I use them for things like seeking science-based information on a complementary …

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PASIG: From Special Interest Group to a Life of its Own

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

Once upon a time, a big technology company wanted to get together a like-minded segment of its customers, those who worked at educational and memory institutions that were concerned about long-term preservation and best practices in digital archiving. Thus was born PASIG: the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group.  Since 2007 there have been dozens …

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Life Cycle Models for Digital Stewardship

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

At some point in undertaking digital stewardship, it’s helpful to consider the digital life cycle: the basic stages content moves through from creation to providing ongoing preservation, management and access over time.  Life cycle models are useful for understanding the full scope of the responsibility involved and also in formulating specific workflows for particular kinds …

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Collaboration: Looking Across the NDSA Membership

Posted by: Erin Engle

Looking back at the formation of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, it’s fulfilling to see we’ve come a long way from where we started. It’s been about year and a half since NDSA officially launched at the July 2010 partners meeting.  Since then, fifty-five founding members participated in developing membership benefits and crafting mission and …