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Archive: June 2011 (27 Posts)

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A Fine View at the Summit of JP2

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Steve Puglia, Manager of Conversion Support Services at the Library of Congress. When you work at the Library of Congress on digital preservation projects, you know you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to (and sometimes learn about) new and exciting endeavors in the realm of technology and content …

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Eight Years of Web Archiving, One Week in The Hague

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP.  She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. The Internet is a vast utility shared across borders and cultures–a resource like no other. It presents information from governments, news outlets, corporations, nonprofits and cultural heritage institutions with the thoughts, feelings and everyday outputs …

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Digital Forensics and Digital Preservation

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

Libraries, archives, and museums are acquiring increasing numbers of born-digital collections. I’ve been interested to see the increased use of digital forensics tools in the appraisal and processing and accessing of such collections. But there are challenges. Some of the software tools come from the realm of legal forensics, where chain of custody and recovery …

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NDIIPP Junior Fellows on the Job

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Gloria Gonzalez, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. The conclusion of May marked a significant event here at the Library of Congress—the arrival of the 2011 Junior Fellow interns. This year there are forty-one Junior Fellows; we spent the past week learning the history of the Library …

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Communication Team Spreads the Word

Posted by: Susan Manus

Every once in awhile here at “The Signal”, we will feature the work of staff members to highlight what’s going on “behind the scenes” in NDIIPP.  This week, it’s not a person it’s a team – the NDIIPP Communications Team, to be exact. Six staff members – Mike Ashenfelder, Erin Engle, Butch Lazorchak, Abbey Potter …

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Digital Preservation Jazz

Posted by: Martha Anderson

Saving digital information is a lot like jazz — it is creative, diverse, and collaborative.  There are a variety of styles and musical approaches to jazz. Jazz musicians contribute their unique and unscripted experience and response to the composition. Digital preservation organizations partnering with the Library are a diverse, creative and collaborative community developing tools …

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Partner Profile: American Society of Media Photographers

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The American Society of Media Photographers is a trade organization whose members create works primarily for publication. ASMP offers members legal, business and technical information and it advocates for photographers’ legal rights. In 2007, NDIIPP awarded funding to ASMP, which ASMP used to develop a comprehensive digital photography resource online. ASMP titled it Digital Photography …