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Archive: May 2014 (16 Posts)

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Preserving Your Personal Memories: Students Create Workshop on Photo Archiving

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Lea Harrison, Lindsey Bright & Michelle Datiles, all graduate students in the digital curation class of Dr. Jane Zhang, Catholic University of America Inspired by the Library of Congress’ Personal Digital Archiving initiatives, our small team of three Catholic University of America grad students in the Library & …

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All that Big Data Is Not Going to Manage Itself: Part Two

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

Yesterday’s blog post described some of the federal government initiatives that have driven data management requirements over the past ten years or so. “Data management” is a hot job area right now, and if you tilt the digital stewardship universe a certain direction, almost everything we do falls under the rubric of “data management.” Data …

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Preview of the Digital Preservation 2014 Program

Posted by: Erin Engle

It’s hard to believe, but this is the tenth year of the annual digital preservation meeting convened by the Library of Congress.  Yes, it really has been 10 years. Registration for this year’s annual meeting, Digital Preservation 2014, (July 22-24) will open next week. Until then, I’m pleased to share with you the draft program …

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Announcing Hosts and Projects for Next Round of NDSR

Posted by: Susan Manus

Some good news coming out of the National Digital Stewardship Residency program – the host institutions and projects for the upcoming year have now been announced!  The NDSR, an initiative to develop new professionals in digital stewardship through funded, post-graduate residencies, is wrapping up the first successful year of the program, held in 10 different …

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The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

“Over here,” said Matt Kirschenbaum as he led past the researchers’ desks toward the far side of the room. He stopped and beamed as he pointed toward the corner and said, “Mysty.” “Mysty” – weighing about 200 pounds and shaped like a small refrigerator — is an IBM MT/ST, the first product ever marketed as …

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International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly 2014

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead and Co-Chair of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group A researcher, a crawl engineer, a program manager and a curator walk into a national library… sounds like the start to a great joke, doesn’t it? But it actually …

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Comparing Formats for Still Image Digitizing: Part Two

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. This is the second post (of two) on the recently posted comparison of selected digital file formats compiled by the Still Images Working Group within the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative.  In this post, I’ll offer some thoughts about JPEG …

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Comparing Formats for Still Image Digitizing: Part One

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. The Still Image Working Group within the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) recently posted a comparison of a few selected digital file formats.  We sometimes call these target formats: they are the output format that you reformat to.  In …