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Archive: August 2011 (30 Posts)

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Multitasking for Digital Preservation News

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. Recently, in one of my library school classes, I was assigned to watch a documentary about how the web affects our ability to learn. One segment tested the efficiency of self-proclaimed “multitaskers,” who often performed …

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I Can Haz Standardz: What Standards Should be in the Digital Preservation Toolbox?

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Audiovisual Specialist, and Carla Miller, Administrative Specialist, at the Library of Congress. The NDSA Standards and Best Practices Working Group is working on a digital preservation standards survey that has the following objectives: • Identify and describe existing digital preservation standards and best practices • Identify …

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Digital Preservation’s Got Talent: Awarding Innovation and Accomplishment

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. How can the digital stewardship community do more to recognize and encourage innovation in the field? That was the central question posed to the participants of And the Winner Is…, a workshop hosted by the National Digital Stewardship …