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By: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Data Specialist for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. A previous post on this blog explored why it’s so hard to come up with a reliable measurement of the average lifespan of a webpage. In essence, the argument came down to this: links and the …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Leslie Johnston
Image scanning of one sort or another has been in common usage in some industries since the 1920s. Yes, really, the 1920s. The news wire services used telephotography — where images are captured using photo cells and transmitted over phone lines — well into the 1990s. Scanners and digital cameras like those we are familiar …
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By: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Christie Moffatt, Manager, Digital Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine In this installment of the “Content Matters” series of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group, I interview Dr. Sylvia Chou, PhD, MPH, Program Director of the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Shall I compare thee to a closed format/ thou art more open and accessible. – Author after 3 coffees. In honor of William Shakespeare’s 449th birthday on April 23rd (observed) and as a tie-in with the recent digital …
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By: Caitlin Rizzo
Next Wednesday, May 1, 2013, Natasha Trethewey, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, will close the Spring literary season with the “Necessary Utterance: Poetry as Cultural Force” reading and lecture. To celebrate her year as Poet Laureate, she has selected five poets whose writing she feels illustrates the best of what poetry can do as force …
Posted in: From the Catbird Seat
By: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to chat with Donald Mennerich, a Digital Archivist at the New York Public Library, as part of our Insights series. Insights is an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved with projects related to preservation, access and stewardship of digital information. Donald …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Caitlin Rizzo
The following is a guest post by Abby Yochelson, English and American Literature Reference specialist at the Library of Congress’s Main Reading Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Division. Can you help me find a novel I read about twenty years ago about time travel back to the dinosaur age? I’m trying to find a poem …
Posted in: From the Catbird Seat
By: Butch Lazorchak
This post is cross posted on the blog of the Law Library of Congress, In Custodia Legis. In Custodia Legis is an excellent source of information on current legal trends and materials from the Library’s collections pertaining to the law. Digital technology makes documents easy to alter or copy, leading to multiple non-identical versions that …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Baseball season is upon us! It’s time we root root root for the home teams, eat peanuts and crackerjacks, and yell at the umpires. It is also time to delight in the zany antics of mascots. However, there …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Butch Lazorchak
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group is excited to launch a new series for the Signal. We’re calling it Content Matters, and much like the Insights series that the Innovation Working Group has published here for few years now, the interview series will feature discussions and stories about the content that our members …
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