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With Liberty and File Naming for All

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

This is a guest post by Lisa Gregory, Digital Projects Liaison, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina. About two weeks ago, I tried a little thought experiment. Throughout the course of an afternoon, for each person I spoke with or saw, I imagined myself talking to them about digital preservation. From grocery store …

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Personal Archiving – Year End Boot Camp

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. With the large size and amount of my personal digital archives, my archiving problem may be a bit extreme, but I think a description of my archiving system may be helpful to many people who want to save and …

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Have Obsolete Digital Media, Will Travel

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Keri A. Myers, a volunteer archivist with NDIIPP. I never planned to have obsolete digital storage media as a traveling companion.  It just kind of happened.  And I’m an archivist with lots of experience working with digital materials! This summer I relocated to the Washington DC area after …

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Save Our African American Treasures: Houston

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. Last weekend, I participated in the Save Our African American Treasures Program at the Houston Public Library. The Treasures Program is a collections and education initiative of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. For the past few years, NMAAHC’s …

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Photo Sharing Sites as Digital Preservation Tools

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. The numbers are staggering – an estimated 2.5 billion people in the world have digital cameras!  They take perhaps 3.75 billion pictures each year.  And we love to share those pictures – hundreds of millions of pictures are uploaded …

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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 …