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Posted by: Susan Manus
As part of her closing presentation at the recent combined NDIIPP/NDSA partners meeting , Martha Anderson, Director of Program Management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, said she has noticed a change taking place for organizations and that “no one is dealing with the tried and true anymore. The skills to innovate …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. It’s been three weeks since the NDIIPP/NDSA partners meeting and to keep the “Make it Work” spirit going we’d like to focus on the work of one of the speakers from that event, Helen Hockx-Yu. …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is part of a series featuring the work of our National Digital Stewardship Alliance partners. “A place for everything, everything in its place, and seven secure copies”, so says the “digital” Ben Franklin, as he’s quoted at the top of the MetaArchive project page. He would of course, be very happy with the …
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. Over the last six months, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Infrastructure Working Group has been talking storage. After listening to several presentations on shiny new decentralized, distributed and or cloud storage platforms we quickly realized that the diversity …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
In addition to the ongoing challenge of direct digital preservation there are other related activities that are crucial to this effort. Lots of things, actually – that are not directly “preservation” activities but do affect the digital preservation end result. Things such as metadata – which I’d like to focus on here, and using music …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP, and Communications Officer, IIPC. You’ve no doubt heard this catch phrase made popular by Tim Gunn from the reality competition show Project Runway. It is the advice he gives harried contestants who are trying to create a fabulous dress in under two hours …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
To have a complete picture of digital preservation, it helps to look at other activities that have a very real impact – digital conversion being a good example. We recently welcomed a new colleague who is already making a difference with this effort, Steven Puglia, who recently joined the Library of Congress as Digital Conversion …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, Project Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. Like many others, I have been fascinated to watch the production of newspapers–as depicted in the movies like The Front Page or All the President’s Men. To be sure, these tales were enlivened by plot elements like exposing Watergate and …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
There is a new collaboration under way, which is community driven, international in scope, and will be an invaluable resource for the entire digital library community. The “Unified Digital Formats Registry” is a project with the ambitious goal of providing online access and open information sharing for the entire range of digital format information. A …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure