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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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Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2011

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

It’s time to take stock of the most memorable digital preservation happenings of 2011.  This is a challenge, since many organizations around the world have done fine work and a full accounting would be long.  Really, really web-unfriendly long. Hence the virtue of the top 10 trope:  brevity makes up for ruthless exclusion.  In that …

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From There to Here, from Here to There, Digital Content is Everywhere!

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

(NOTE: This is an updated article from our digitalpreservation.gov website originally written by Mike Ashenfelder.) As we discussed in an earlier post, the landscape is changing for the better in terms of the appearance of open source tools to support digital preservation and access. NDIIPP has contributed by developing tools to transfer large quantities of …

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Preserving Creative America: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

(NOTE: This is a reprinted and updated article from our digitalpreservation.gov website.) The motion picture industry is rapidly changing from film to digital media and within the next decade most movies will be shot, edited, distributed and projected digitally. Yet even as the industry embraces new technology, they may not be doing enough to archive …

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Digital Formats, part 2: Geospatial Formats Added to LC Web Site

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. In part 1 of this series, I sketched the background of the Library of Congress format sustainability Web site.  This month we are pleased to announce the availability of 35 descriptions of digital geospatial formats and two brief accompanying …

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The December 2011 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is Now Available

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The December 2011 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available (PDF). In this issue: *Information about how the Library of Congress is archiving the 2012 Election campaign websites *Updates from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards and Outreach Working Groups *An article about saving the record of American business *A recent meeting discussed …

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Digital Formats, part 1: Lots of ‘Em and More to Come

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. The Library has presented information about digital formats since 2004, intended to support preservation planning in our institution and in our sister archives. This is, of course, an open-ended activity: new formats come along with some regularity and, in …

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We Can Haz Standards? Yes, We Can!

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I’m the co-chair of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards Working Group along with Andrea Goethals of Harvard University. Over the past year, the working group has been engaged in a project to identify, describe and …