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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Megan Forbes, Manager of Collection Information and Access, Museum of the Moving Image. Several weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Digital Library Federation’s 2011 Fall Forum, where I participated in a panel about data management, digital curation and digital preservation. I felt a bit like …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Events associated with the Kennedy assassination offer a compelling case study regarding obsolete data formats and digital preservation. Shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy on this day 48 years ago, an organization turned to the latest computer technology in an effort to study the tragedy. From November 26 through December 3, 1963, the National …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by David Brunton, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. I have heard the National Digital Newspaper Program jokingly described as “putting breaking new online, within 200 years.” In some ways, it’s a fitting tag line: the most current newspaper pages released …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Keri A. Myers, a volunteer archivist with NDIIPP. I never planned to have obsolete digital storage media as a traveling companion. It just kind of happened. And I’m an archivist with lots of experience working with digital materials! This summer I relocated to the Washington DC area after …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Kate Zwaard, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Library of Congress and its partners continue to work on ways to help users communicate and evaluate trustworthiness of the electronic material they are accessing. The risk is higher for some …
Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. In From Records to Data: It’s Not Just About Collections Any More, Leslie Johnston explained how she is increasingly seeing a need for librarians, archivists and curators to shift from thinking about their collections as sets of individual …
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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Sharon M. Leon, Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and Associate Professor at George Mason University. Historians are not the most likely candidates to design and develop an open source web publishing platform. But, as historians working at in the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. Last weekend, I participated in the Save Our African American Treasures Program at the Houston Public Library. The Treasures Program is a collections and education initiative of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. For the past few years, NMAAHC’s …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving