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Archive: January 2012 (8 Posts)

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Some First Thoughts on Online Science and Digital Preservation

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, a Digital Archivist and Abbey Potter, a Program Officer in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. When historians look back on late 20th and early 21st century science they will undoubtedly be interested in understanding how the web has facilitated, altered and otherwise shifted …

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With Liberty and File Naming for All

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

This is a guest post by Lisa Gregory, Digital Projects Liaison, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina. About two weeks ago, I tried a little thought experiment. Throughout the course of an afternoon, for each person I spoke with or saw, I imagined myself talking to them about digital preservation. From grocery store …

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Partly Cloudy: Trends in Distributed and Remote Preservation Storage–More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. As discussed in a previous post, the NDSA Infrastructure Working Group recently conducted an extensive survey of NDSA member preservation storage systems. While the survey examined a wide range of preservation storage trends and activities, it …

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Taking Digital Preservation to Science Online 2012

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. This week, my Library of Congress colleague Abbey Potter and I will participate in ScienceOnline 2012, an international unconference on science and the web. We are both excited to learn more about the interesting and valuable resources scientists, …

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Digging into a Slice of Digital History

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

This is a guest post by Ellen O’Donnell, Technical Writer, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, who recently spent a year on detail in OSI. When shepherd Christopher Day made a routine check of his boss’s flock, he noticed that a sheep was missing. Word got around town. An alert policeman spotted a suspicious …

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Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2011

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

It’s time to take stock of the most memorable digital preservation happenings of 2011.  This is a challenge, since many organizations around the world have done fine work and a full accounting would be long.  Really, really web-unfriendly long. Hence the virtue of the top 10 trope:  brevity makes up for ruthless exclusion.  In that …

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Funding Opportunity for Ph.D. Studies in Web Archiving

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The University of North Texas College of Information with the International Internet Preservation Consortium is seeking applications for a 3-year doctoral studies support award. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2012, and annual financial support is approximately $40,000 (USD). The awardee will be directly involved with the activities of the IIPC and will experience …

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Exploring and Sharing Community History Through Interface Design

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP.  She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience digital collections. It was launched a few months ago and it has been featured …