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By: Erin Engle
Guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead, and Co-Chair of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group. You may have read the news last week that the community news website EveryBlock shut its doors rather abruptly. Founded in 2007 with help from a Knight Foundation News Challenge grant, EveryBlock’s …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Erin Allen
(The following is an article from the January-February 2013 issue of the Library’s magazine, LCM, featuring an excerpt from an interview with historian and author Robert Caro about Lyndon Baines Johnson.) LCM: You’ve spent more than 30 years researching and writing about Lyndon Johnson, with a final volume yet to be published. What aspects of …
Posted in: Timeless
By: Jeff Bridgers
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we feature a 120-year-old card. This circa 1890 valentine features a curly-headed angel paddling a flower-laden love boat “Hearts Delight.” The sail bears the inscription: “Pray Sweetheart, send me just a line to say you’ll be my Valentine.” Happy Valentine’s Day! Learn More: Put a little romance in your life via …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Trevor Owens
The following is a guest post from John Spencer, President BMS Chace, and coordinating committee member for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. In this post, Spencer shares information he presented on a National Digital Stewardship Alliance panel on the importance of understanding bit level threats to preserving digital content (PDF) at the 2012 NDIIPP Digital …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Mike Ashenfelder
Next week the University of Maryland will host Personal Digital Archiving 2013 (Erin Engle wrote about it on Tuesday). This is the fourth PDA conference since its inception in 2010 at the Internet Archive and its significance — for both cultural institutions and the general public — increases every year. It is the one major conference …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Trevor Owens
In this installment of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation working group’s series of interviews Lori Emerson of the Media Archaeology Lab interviews Wolfgang Ernst of Humboldt University in Berlin. The interview explores the relationship between media archaeology and digital preservation as evident in the design and structure of the Humbolt Media Archaeological Fundus. Lori: I deeply …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Susan Manus
The February 2013 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201302.pdf In this issue: Digital Preservation Top Ten of 2012 Scanning: DIY or Outsource? Incorporating History in Digital Maps Is JPEG-2000 A Preservation Risk? The Power of Digital Oral History Viewshare Highlights Interviews with Peter Murray and Arfon Smith Upcoming …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. Of all the impediments to preservation, disasters fill my heart with the most dread. From the destruction of 60 percent of the Ciambue Crucifix in the 1966 flood of the Arno river, to the crashing of a …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council, National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group co-chair and a former Fellow in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. An affordance is a characteristic of an object or thing that supports a specific activity. For …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Leslie Johnston
I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the 2013 CurateGear meeting held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on January 9, 2013. And what a good experience it was. CurateGear is a somewhat unique experience because it focuses not on presentations, but on demonstrations. LIVE demonstrations. Every presenter gives a …
Posted in: The Signal