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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
When we launched The Signal one year ago today I declared that “we want to do even better,” in our efforts to share information and engage with people that have a stake in preserving digital information. So–how well did we measure up to that intent in our first year? The metrics tell an encouraging story. …
Posted in: Outreach and Events
Posted by: Erin Engle
This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. What do you get when mix six lawyers and more than 25 web archivists in a room together? No, not a joke. When you’re serious about the topics of legal deposit, permissions responsibilities, access concerns, and robots.txt, you …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. The World Wide Web is a complex and constantly-evolving network of linkages. Maintaining access to web content can be very challenging because content producers can change or remove pages or entire sites at any time. We’ve …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Since 2005, the Library of Congress has hosted annual meetings with digital preservation partners, collaborators and others committed to keeping a record of our time. The meetings have served as a forum for sharing information about concepts, tools and best practices, and have also helped promote a vibrant community of practice. We are pleased to …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
“Digital Preservation at the Library of Congress: Past, Present and Future,” is an introduction to the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. The seven-minute video features commentary by: Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Martha Anderson, Director of NDIIPP Program Management, the Library of Congress …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
During Preservation Week 2012, April 22-28, librarians nationwide held events on saving personal digital possessions. These events are evidence of how librarians are stepping up and taking on the responsibility of helping their communities understand digital preservation. Julie Mosbo, chair of the Preservation Week Working Group and preservation librarian at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois, who presented these ideas at the 2012 General Assembly of the IIPC. This post is the third in a three-part series. Read the first and second posts or the full paper on netpreserve.org. As web archives mature and expand, a growing question …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois, who presented these ideas at the 2012 General Assembly of the IIPC. This post is the second in a three-part series. View the first post in here. Data Mining For millennia, scholarship in archives and libraries has meant intensive reading of a …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois, who presented these ideas at the 2012 General Assembly of the IIPC. This post is the first in a three-part series. Imagine a world in which libraries and archives had never existed. No institutions had ever systematically collected or preserved our collective …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration