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Posted by: Susan Manus
The latest project from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, Outreach Working Group, has now reached a milestone with the public unveiling of a new resource, “Digital Preservation in a Box.” Don’t let the “Box” term fool you – in keeping with the digital preservation nature of things, this “Box” is a virtual one. That is, …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Emily Reynolds, a 2012 Junior Fellow. As we mentioned in our introductory post last month, the OSI Junior Fellows are working on a project involving a draft digital preservation policy framework. One component of our work is revising a glossary that accompanies the framework. We’ve spent the last …
Posted in: Inside the Library
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
“In my career I have always switched between computing and archaeology and at various points I have tried to escape back into archaeology,” said William Kilbride. Archaeological data management set him on the path to his current position as executive director of the UK-based Digital Preservation Coalition. Helping to establish international digital preservation standards might …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Advertisers and economists talk about a concept known as the value proposition. It refers to what makes a product or service valuable to others. In the context of how preserving institutions communicate, the value proposition bluntly asks: why should anyone pay attention to what an organization has to say? When we talk about digital preservation, …
Posted in: Outreach and Events
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In a previous post on The Signal, we examined some of the themes that emerged from the survey of organizations in the United States that are actively involved in, or planning to start, programs to archive content …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. A packed house heard Tony Hey and Clifford Lynch present on The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Research, Digital Scholarship and Implications for Libraries at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference. Jim Gray coined The Fourth Paradigm in 2007 to reflect a movement toward data-intensive science. Adapting …
Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
They’re the red-headed stepchildren of the digital age. They’re neither retro chic (all things being relative, of course) like the server arrays that support “big data,” nor are they as cute as the thumb drives made to look like your favorite Star Wars character (or more oddly, chicken feet). Of what do I speak? The …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure