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Archive: December 2011 (4 Posts)

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Supporting Open Source Tools for Digital Preservation and Access

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

Skimpy.  Sparse.  Sporadic. I used these words a few years ago to generalize the state of tools, services and other technology for digital stewardship.  Until recently, an institution that wanted to actively manage its digital content over the long term had one basic option: build an infrastructure from scratch. Much has changed over the last …

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Providing Access to 70 Million Copyright Records

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

This is a guest post from Mike Burke from the U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. The U.S. Copyright Office has a comprehensive set of records about books, periodicals, music, motion pictures and other works that were registered with the Office between 1870 and 1977.  The records include transfers and assignments of rights …

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Crowdsourcing the Civil War: Insights Interview with Nicole Saylor

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I’m excited to offer this fourth interview for Insights, an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved with projects related to preservation, access and stewardship of digital …

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The Artifactual Elements of Born-Digital Records, Part 2

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. A previous post suggested how the digital environment within computer programs and systems creates an artifactual element to born-digital records. An analog equivalent to this idea can be found in the popular Thomas Jefferson’s Library exhibit …