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By: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group. Following our earlier summary of the recent International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly, I thought I’d share some of the insights from the workshop, “Harvesting and Preserving the Future Web. The workshop was divided into three topics: 1) …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Robert Casper
The following is a guest post from Camila Escobar-Vredevoogd, the 2012 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center. I arrived here fresh from the University of Virginia, where I earned my undergraduate degree in English and Psychology. My love for poetry brought me to the Library of Congress this summer, and …
Posted in: From the Catbird Seat
By: Trevor Owens
Alongside this year’s NDSA/NDIIPP conference, DigitalPreservation 2012, we are excited to try out another kind of meeting, an unconference. In conjunction with DigitalPreservation 2012 we are going to play host to a CurateCamp. For those unfamiliar with unconferences, the key idea is that the participants define the agenda and that there are no spectators, everyone …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Erin Engle
This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. What do you get when mix six lawyers and more than 25 web archivists in a room together? No, not a joke. When you’re serious about the topics of legal deposit, permissions responsibilities, access concerns, and robots.txt, you …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. The World Wide Web is a complex and constantly-evolving network of linkages. Maintaining access to web content can be very challenging because content producers can change or remove pages or entire sites at any time. We’ve …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Mike Ashenfelder
“Digital Preservation at the Library of Congress: Past, Present and Future,” is an introduction to the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. The seven-minute video features commentary by: Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Martha Anderson, Director of NDIIPP Program Management, the Library of Congress …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Mike Ashenfelder
During Preservation Week 2012, April 22-28, librarians nationwide held events on saving personal digital possessions. These events are evidence of how librarians are stepping up and taking on the responsibility of helping their communities understand digital preservation. Julie Mosbo, chair of the Preservation Week Working Group and preservation librarian at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois, who presented these ideas at the 2012 General Assembly of the IIPC. This post is the third in a three-part series. Read the first and second posts or the full paper on netpreserve.org. As web archives mature and expand, a growing question …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois, who presented these ideas at the 2012 General Assembly of the IIPC. This post is the second in a three-part series. View the first post in here. Data Mining For millennia, scholarship in archives and libraries has meant intensive reading of a …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois, who presented these ideas at the 2012 General Assembly of the IIPC. This post is the first in a three-part series. Imagine a world in which libraries and archives had never existed. No institutions had ever systematically collected or preserved our collective …
Posted in: The Signal