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Posted by: Susan Manus
Note: We will occasionally post material to The Signal, with updates, that was previously published only on our website. The following is an article from our “Meeting the Challenge” series, October, 2010. Behind every digital object, there is usually metadata with descriptive information about the object. But the library world is all too aware that …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. The Future of the Past of the Web was a well-named event hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition, JISC, and the British Library on October 7th. It followed in a sequence of DPC events on …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
A couple of weeks ago I attended a talk by Michael Edson, Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution. The talk, entitled “Let Us Go Boldly Into the Present” (similar to his presentation at our Partners Meeting this past summer), touched on a lot that we think about, deal with or just …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Susan Manus
Anyone who is following our program, and our blog, is by now familiar with the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, our partnership initiative that was launched a little over a year ago. The members of the NDSA all share a common purpose, contributing to a collaborative effort to preserve access to our national digital heritage. Since …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. We are excited to continue our Insights series of interviews, featuring conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation working group members and individuals working on projects related to preservation, access and stewardship of digital information. In this installment, Jane …
Posted in: Insights Interview, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Susan Manus
When was the last time you wrote a letter, on paper? Other than my note-to-self stickies (my desk usually has a bunch), or greeting cards, I personally have not written much of substance, just on paper, in a long time. These days, of course, we are engulfed in the digital versions of note writing – …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
What a treat – I was able to listen to an historic 1912 recording of the violinist Fritz Kreisler playing his Schön Rosmarin – and I ventured no farther than my computer. Amidst the crackle and hiss of the old recording, Kreisler’s rich sound came through, and gave me the experience I was looking for …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. This week’s digital preservation items from around the web: Videos from the ICE Forum: http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/jisc-bgdp/2011/08/19/videos-from-the-ice-forum/ Some short vox pop videos created at the JISC International Curation Education (ICE) Forum are now available. Moonalice plays Palo …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Steve Puglia, Digital Conversion Services Manager for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative, formed in 2007, includes representatives from various Federal agencies dealing with the digitization of cultural heritage collections. This group meets regularly to discuss technical topics of common interest, with the …
Posted in: Digital Content