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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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The Omeka project team is coming up with some good solutions for building an open source community. Omeka, an open source web publishing platform for cultural heritage collections, was developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. (An overview of Omeka is given in a previous blog post …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. In mid-October, BMS/Chace of Nashville, Tennessee, released the “first generation version” of a software tool to support the collection of metadata for the multi-track, multi-session sound recordings being produced in the music industry today. The Metadata for Recorded Sound …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
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! …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new site, Viewshare.org, a platform for empowering curators, archivists, and librarians to provide access to the digital cultural heritage objects they are preserving. (Editor’s note: the Viewshare program was …
Posted in: Viewshare