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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This story was previously published on digitalpreservation.gov. By now you may have gotten an email from a friend or colleague pointing you to the Team Digital Preservation animations, the Saturday morning-style cartoon whose heroes defend against threats to digital preservation. The cartoon series is one of the many innovative resources that DigitalPreservationEurope uses to boost …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I’m excited to share this third interview for Insights, an occasional feature of The Signal sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation working group members and individuals working on projects related to preservation, access and …
Posted in: Insights Interview, NDSA
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Helen Tibbo is a descendant of Mayflower settlers Miles Standish and John Alden but she doesn’t flaunt her pedigree or socialize exclusively with snooty blue bloods. It’s difficult to say exactly how her Massachusetts cultural roots have defined her but she does embody bedrock New England characteristics such as self-reliance and practicality. And these traits …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
In part 1 of this article, I wrote that relational databases are the engines that drive digital genealogy. Databases make it possible to quickly search through enormous quantities of records, find the person you’re looking for and discover related people and events. And when institutions collaborate and share databases, statistical information becomes enriched. For example, …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The popularity of genealogy websites and TV shows is rapidly growing, mainly because the Internet has made it so convenient to access family history information. Almost everything can be done through the computer now. Before the digital age, genealogical research was not only laborious and time consuming, it also resulted in boxes of documents: photos, …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Barrie Howard, Program Management Coordinator, NDIIPP. This post is the second in a short series about U.S. government grant programs that have funded digital preservation since 2000. Readers can discover what the Library of Congress has accomplished through NDIIPP from the program’s website, and my previous post covered …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
“The Library of Congress,” a 20-minute motion picture from the 1940s, is not only a loving homage to the Library, rich with Hollywood production values, but it is also associated with a few significant nodes in history: World War II, the creation of the Library’s motion picture archives and the population of cyberspace with cultural …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Barrie Howard, Program Management Coordinator, NDIIPP. In my work at NDIIPP I’ve been looking at U.S. government grant programs that have funded digital preservation since 2000. I discovered that funding has been sourced primarily from the Library of Congress and four other agencies: the Institute of Museum and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Federal Agencies Audiovisual Working Group held a meeting on July 28, 2011. The meeting was attended by professionals from several agencies including the Library of Congress, the National Archives (NARA) and the Smithsonian. The Library of Congress …
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