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Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
Like many of you, I’ve got hundreds (thousands?) of photos. This is one of my favorites: It’s not the most flattering photo in my collection, but it was taken by a good friend back when I was still a crazy grad student, and I crack up every time I see it. Of course, the photo …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The October 2011 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201110.pdf In this issue: *Personal Digital Archiving talked about at the National Book Festival and on our blog, “The Signal” *More from our ABCs of Digital Preservation series on “The Signal” – B is for Bit Preservation and C is for Collections *A …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post from Sam Meister, Digital Archivist, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. During the week of September 20 – 23, 2011, a group of individuals from all across the United States descended on the Library of Congress to attend the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) initiative’s first ever Train the …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead, and NDSA Content Working Group Co-Chair The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Content Working Group is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Barrie Howard, Program Management Coordinator, NDIIPP. This post is the third in a short series about U.S. government grant programs that have funded digital preservation since the beginning of the new millennium. This series focuses on federal agencies other than The Library of Congress, such as the National …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
Back in the early 1970’s when I was just a wee lad, I was smitten with television commercials for a certain product billed as the “uncola.” Of course, calling it the “uncola” was excellent marketing and a great product differentiation hook. When you’re trying to market to people (1970’s teenagers) who are generally free-thinking, inquisitive …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Laura Graham, a Digital Media Project Coordinator at the Library of Congress. Bit preservation activities for the Web Archiving team include acquiring content, copying it to multiple storage systems, verifying it, and maintaining information current about the content. But even these minimal steps, which do not include managing …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
We are excited to share this guest post from MacKenzie Smith, Research Director at the MIT Libraries. At the joint NDIIPP/NDSA meeting this summer MacKenzie gave a talk titled “Exhibit3@MIT: Lessons learned from 10 years of the Simile Project for building library open source software” in our session on open source tools and communities. The …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
What’s on the minds of archivists these days? Well, lots of things, judging from the program from the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, held at the end of August in Chicago. The theme of this year’s conference was “Archives 360°,” and the 75th anniversary providing a convenient milestone for the profession …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration