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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. When my family and friends ask what I do at the Library of Congress, I invariably get questioning looks when I use the phrase “digital preservation.” The looks turn even more quizzical when I talk about my work managing a project focusing on …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. Librarians at University of Minnesota Make an Impact with Data Management Program http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891540-264/librarians_at_university_of_minnesota.html.csp The library has created a program called Managing Your Data, which guides researchers in the creation of data management plans. Inspired by …
Posted in: Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Technology is the easy part of digital preservation. Actually it’s only easy relative to the other challenges that libraries, archives and other memory institutions face in keeping and serving digital content. The really hard stuff comes down to people: how staff are organized, empowered and trained to do the work. I see two basic issues …
Posted in: Education and Training, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. UNT receives more than $800,000 dollars in funding to investigate needs in archiving research data http://untsystem.unt.edu/news/2011/August/11-08-09-arch-res-data.htm The first grant of $624,663 from IMLS is for a three-year project to create four graduate-level courses in digital …
Posted in: Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. On “The Signal,” we’ve talked about different aspects of digital preservation – like here and here – and we’ve talked about geospatial information and digital mapping. In this post, I’d like to talk about the resource NDIIPP is helping to develop (and the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Gloria Gonzalez, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. When watching a video online, do you ever wonder how much time it took to create? Or what content was left out? During my time as an intern, I worked on a video about descriptive metadata for personal photographs. …
Posted in: Personal Archiving, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Gloria Gonzalez, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. As August begins, our time as NDIIPP Junior Fellows is coming to an end. The four of us—Victoria Priester, Kristin Snawder, Cristina Bilmanis and myself—were introduced on The Signal at the beginning of June. Since then, we’ve worked on …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites – http://blog.photography.si.edu/2011/08/02/five-tips-for-designing-preservable-websites/ The Smithsonian Institution Archives outline five tips for designing websites for digital preservation, including following accessibility guidelines and maintaining stable URLs. Flash more reliable than hard disk? …
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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. We will post future updates as they become available every week. The listing below is from last week. Here is your weekly round-up of digital preservation articles: Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Publications and Resources