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Archive: December 2011 (19 Posts)

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Preserving Creative America: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

(NOTE: This is a reprinted and updated article from our digitalpreservation.gov website.) The motion picture industry is rapidly changing from film to digital media and within the next decade most movies will be shot, edited, distributed and projected digitally. Yet even as the industry embraces new technology, they may not be doing enough to archive …

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Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative – An Overview

Posted by: Susan Manus

(Note:  In the interest of long term access, we will occasionally post material to The Signal that was previously published only on our website.  The following is an updated version of an article from our “Meeting the Challenge” series.) Saving the nation’s cultural heritage is an increasingly important matter for government agencies that hold large …

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Digital Stewards are Invited to Comment

Posted by: Martha Anderson

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is offering the opportunity for interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally funded scientific research. Responses should be submitted by January 12, 2012. The National Digital …

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Digital Pioneer: Mike Wash

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Mike Wash is an engineer, technologist, inventor and visionary who holds 18 patents (search on the U.S. Patent Office site for “Wash; Michael L”), designed and implemented many of the standard automatic functions in modern digital and film cameras and — in an incredible feat of engineering — helped create a new data infrastructure for …

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Digital Formats, part 2: Geospatial Formats Added to LC Web Site

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. In part 1 of this series, I sketched the background of the Library of Congress format sustainability Web site.  This month we are pleased to announce the availability of 35 descriptions of digital geospatial formats and two brief accompanying …

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The December 2011 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is Now Available

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The December 2011 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available (PDF). In this issue: *Information about how the Library of Congress is archiving the 2012 Election campaign websites *Updates from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards and Outreach Working Groups *An article about saving the record of American business *A recent meeting discussed …

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Digital Formats, part 1: Lots of ‘Em and More to Come

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. The Library has presented information about digital formats since 2004, intended to support preservation planning in our institution and in our sister archives. This is, of course, an open-ended activity: new formats come along with some regularity and, in …

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Opting In to Preservation

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post from Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead and National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group Co-Chair In November 2010, the Library of Congress convened a Citizen Journalism workshop that brought together researchers, bloggers, journalists, academics and archivists to address selection and preservation issues for hyper-local community news on the …

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Free Online Viewshare Workshop: Sign up Today!

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Join the NDIIPP team for a free online workshop on using Viewshare to create interfaces to digital collections. See how you can use Viewshare to learn more about your collections and create and share dynamic interfaces to your …