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Archive: September 2011 (6 Posts)

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Simple, Weak, Scalable and Open: Concepts to Live by in Developing New Solutions

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The 2011 Annual Summer Meeting of DataCite, brought data lovers from several nations to Berkeley, CA, recently. A celebration of access and preservation ensued, with communal sharing of case studies, best practices and ideas for future work. DataCite is an organization with members from national libraries and other organizations from around the world that are …

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Library of Congress To Launch New Corps of Digital Preservation Trainers

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post from Ellen O’Donnell, Senior Technical Writer, on assignment to the Office of Strategic Initiatives from the National Institutes of Health. The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program at the Library of Congress will hold its first national train-the-trainer workshop on September 20-23, 2011, in Washington, DC. The DPOE Baseline …

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The Library: One Place for Publications and Data

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

Scientific data management has some buzz going.  As a longtime data archivist/advocate this is a dream come true for me.  I’ve pinched myself a couple of times to make sure it’s really happening. For decades, scientific practice focused attention on the published results of research.  A substantial infrastructure supports this literature, including an article citation …

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Election Websites Reveal Technology Adoption Trends

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Victoria Priester, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. After completing the North Carolina Public Outreach and Education Project, my next Junior Fellow internship activity involved analyzing trends in web technology on sites featured in the Library of Congress Web Archives. I focused on congressional campaign web sites …