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Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. An Office of Strategic Initiatives team began compiling a set of digital format descriptions in 2004, yielding the format sustainability website, described in my Signal blog posts for December 19 and December 20, 2011. The team includes Jimi Jones …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post from Thomas Padilla, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Assistant in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. We at the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program hear from working professionals across the country that digital preservation can be difficult to implement, let alone maintain, given squeezed …
Posted in: Education and Training, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
In the over 11 years since NDIIPP’s inception, the Program’s digital preservation network has grown substantially from 36 initial partner institutions to over 280 organizations from around the world. The community stewards over 1,400 collections of digital content and developed various tools and services supporting the curation, transfer, validation and preservation of this content. Pretty …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by George Coulbourne, Executive Program Officer at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. On February 21, the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program met with leaders from the Library, Archives, and Academic community to discuss how DPOE will expand on its success in growing a national …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
March 2012 marks the fourth anniversary of our Digital Preservation Newsletter. With this issue, we’ve updated our look and feel. But you’ll notice that our content remains focused on providing current information for the digital preservation community. Thanks to all of our over 18,000 subscribers for your support! http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201203.pdf In this issue: *Check out the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. Spring time in Washington, DC has a lot going for it. Cobblestone streets and historic row houses accented by blooming bushes and trees, beautiful weather with lots of sunshine and breezes, and sunsets against the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
I’ve been following the tweets coming out of Webwise 2012 this week. The annual Institute for Museum and Library Services conference is an opportunity for practitioners from museums, libraries, archives, educational institutions and other organizations to discuss and see first-hand the impact of digital technologies in their respective fields. It has a broad reach for …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post from Heather Bowden, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. Hot on the heels of the Academy Awards, we would like to present to you, Zoe Friedlander, Systems Librarian for the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture …
Posted in: Education and Training, Partners and Collaboration