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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 …
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By: Martha Anderson
Part of a continuing series of alphabetically chosen digital preservation topics. I believe a “picture is worth a thousand words” especially when masses of digits form a new shape that presents fresh insights. The Library and National Endowment for the Humanities have been working with partners for several years to build a digital archive of historic …
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By: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead, and NDSA Content Working Group Co-Chair The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Content Working Group is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The …
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By: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest blog post by Gloria Gonzalez, a UCLA Library and Information Science graduate student and former NDIIPP Junior Fellow. I hobnobbed with celebrities in Hollywood recently. And I mean real A-list talent: I got to spend quality time with the archival stars of the moving image world at the Association of …
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By: Susan Manus
A couple of weeks ago I attended a talk by Michael Edson, Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution. The talk, entitled “Let Us Go Boldly Into the Present” (similar to his presentation at our Partners Meeting this past summer), touched on a lot that we think about, deal with or just …
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By: Susan Manus
Anyone who is following our program, and our blog, is by now familiar with the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, our partnership initiative that was launched a little over a year ago. The members of the NDSA all share a common purpose, contributing to a collaborative effort to preserve access to our national digital heritage. Since …
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By: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Laura Graham, a Digital Media Project Coordinator at the Library of Congress. Bit preservation activities for the Web Archiving team include acquiring content, copying it to multiple storage systems, verifying it, and maintaining information current about the content. But even these minimal steps, which do not include managing …
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By: Martha Anderson
This is part of a series that explores the topic of digital preservation in an alphabetical way. Each post will use a word or phrase as a device to explore a concept and point to a useful resource for understanding specific aspects of the practice of digital preservation. Almost every week, I encounter some comments …
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By: Mike Ashenfelder
In part 1 of this article, I wrote that relational databases are the engines that drive digital genealogy. Databases make it possible to quickly search through enormous quantities of records, find the person you’re looking for and discover related people and events. And when institutions collaborate and share databases, statistical information becomes enriched. For example, …
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By: Butch Lazorchak
We are excited to share this guest post from MacKenzie Smith, Research Director at the MIT Libraries. At the joint NDIIPP/NDSA meeting this summer MacKenzie gave a talk titled “Exhibit3@MIT: Lessons learned from 10 years of the Simile Project for building library open source software” in our session on open source tools and communities. The …
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