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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
We do a fair amount of personal digital archiving outreach. Our main goal is to raise awareness that people who create and keep personal digital information need to take steps to ensure their data persists. We hit the point over and over that digital files are maddeningly apt to disappear due to a host of …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
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: Mike Ashenfelder
For its third consecutive year, the Personal Digital Archiving conference brought together a diverse range of presenters and audience members with different approaches to “personal archiving.” There were a few case studies in which the researchers worked directly with people and reported their findings; most of the presentations were about tools, data analysis and social …
Posted in: Digital Content
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