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Archive: April 2012 (22 Posts)

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Preserving Your Personal Digital Photographs: Library of Congress Presents Online Session

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

Do you wonder if cloud storage is a good option for your personal digital photographs?  Do you have questions about metadata and file formats?  Are you uneasy about the prospects of keeping your digital photos available for yourself and your family into the future?  If so, you have lots of company. On April 26, over …

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Archiving Cell Phone Text Messages

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

As choppy and terse as cell-phone texting is, it still qualifies as correspondence. And since we value and save other text correspondence — such as letters and email — it seems natural that we might want to save text messages too. The problem is that saving text messages off a cell phone is not quite …

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Usability and Analytics in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. Librarians are often accused of talking in a language that can be difficult for non-librarians to understand. While jargon is a part of constructing professional identity, it becomes problematic when that jargonizing hinders how librarians interface …

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Seeking Miraculous and Lossless Victories: An Update on the FADGI Still Image Working Group

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Carla Miller, Administrative Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. On March 23, 2012, the Still Image and Audio Visual Working Groups of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) held a joint meeting hosted at the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) College Park campus.  This is …

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It’s Preservation Week! How are you celebrating it?

Posted by: Erin Engle

It’s Preservation Week! How are you celebrating it? Attending an event at your local library? Holding an event? Thinking about some of your own personal collections that may need preservation treatment to pass on? Even though our blog focuses on the preservation of digital materials, we are about raising awareness and promoting preservation-related activities. That’s …

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Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums with Wikipedia (GLAM-Wiki): Insights Interview with Lori Phillips

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Insights Interview series is an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved in projects related to preservation, access, and stewardship of digital information. In …

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Hurry–Send us Your Ideas for DigitalPreservation 2012, July 24-26

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

DigitalPreservation 2012 is scheduled for July 24-26, and will be held in the Washington, DC, area. The theme is access to digital content under stewardship. We are lining up exciting keynote speakers and looking forward to a lively exchange of ideas. Our annual summer meeting of NDIIPP partners, National Digital Stewardship Alliance members and interested …