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Archive: November 2011 (5 Posts)

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The Artifactual Elements of Born-Digital Records, Part 1

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In Carl Fleischhauer’s recent four-part blog series, he discussed the challenges of, and different approaches to, capturing both the informational and the artifactual aspects of physical books and photographic negatives when reproducing these records in digital …

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Have You Got The Right Stuff? Or, Is Your Digital Content Sustainable?

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Steve McCollum, Digital Media Project Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. Central to any digital preservation strategy is making sure that the stuff you have is the right stuff.  To that end, the Library of Congress endeavors to make sure that digital image files delivered by contractors in a …

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Digital Preservation Outreach through the NDSA

Posted by: Susan Manus

Many of our readers are (hopefully) familiar with the NDSA , a large-scale collaboration of many organizations working together, pooling time and talents to create solutions for long term preservation of digital materials.  The effort is growing by leaps and bounds  – as a matter of fact, we’ve now reached a milestone – 100 organizations! …

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Preserving Business History

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP.  She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. Today’s economic situation draws parallels with the booms and busts of markets past. Policy makers, pundits and economists (we hope) try to learn from the past, to not repeat mistakes or to try and duplicate …

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Photo Sharing Sites as Digital Preservation Tools

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. The numbers are staggering – an estimated 2.5 billion people in the world have digital cameras!  They take perhaps 3.75 billion pictures each year.  And we love to share those pictures – hundreds of millions of pictures are uploaded …