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Hurry–Send us Your Ideas for DigitalPreservation 2012, July 24-26

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

DigitalPreservation 2012 is scheduled for July 24-26, and will be held in the Washington, DC, area. The theme is access to digital content under stewardship. We are lining up exciting keynote speakers and looking forward to a lively exchange of ideas. Our annual summer meeting of NDIIPP partners, National Digital Stewardship Alliance members and interested …

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Preserving Digital Legislative Information: Wrapping Up the MTSA Project

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

At the beginning of this month we published States of Sustainability: A Review of State Projects funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) (PDF), a report written by Christopher A. Lee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The report provides a succinct overview of our recent work with state …

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The April 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is Now Available

Posted by: Erin Engle

The April 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201204.pdf In this issue: *Nominations being accepted for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Awards *How Many Libraries of Congress Does it Take? A look at an unusual unit of measurement *What’s the Value of A Broken Link? *Becoming Digital, Or, What Comes …

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Open Source Software and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Bram van der Werf of the Open Planets Foundation

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, a Digital Archivist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. In this installment of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group Insights series, I am excited to have the chance to chat with Bram van der Werf, Executive Director of the Open Planets …

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States of Sustainability: The NDIIPP Preserving State Government Information Initiative

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

When I first started at the Library of Congress in 2004 I was hired to support the imminent Preserving State Government Information initiative. Over these nearly eight years I have had the opportunity to work with some of the most innovative and committed people in the country on addressing the challenge of keeping state and …

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NEH Funding Opportunity: Research and Development in Digital Preservation and Access

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, a Digital Archivist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. We here at NDIIPP are always on the lookout for opportunities to help the digital preservation community improve their work. In this respect, I was excited to see the announcement for the National Endowment …

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Formatting the Formats Pages

Posted by: Erin Engle

The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. An Office of Strategic Initiatives team began compiling a set of digital format descriptions in 2004, yielding the format sustainability website, described in my Signal blog posts for December 19 and December 20, 2011.  The team includes Jimi Jones …