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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 …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
When I wrote my post on the “Library of Congress” as a unit of measure, I expected to receive some feedback. And boy, did I. As expected, I received some new examples: “In less than two years the app has already hosted more than 500 million images — more than 30 times greater than the …
Posted in: Inside the Library
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Abbey Potter
If you are a frequent visitor to digitalpreservation.gov you may have come across our Collections section. In it we list the digital collections that have been selected for preservation by our NDIIPP partners. We are using Viewshare to make the list more interactive and to help us learn more about this collection of collections. We’ve just …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure, Viewshare
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 …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration