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Archive: August 2012 (25 Posts)

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Digital Strategy Catches up With the Present: An Interview with Smithsonian’s Michael Edson

Posted by: Trevor Owens

For this installment of Insights, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group’s ongoing series of interviews, I talk with Michael Edson, the Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution. Edson gave a compelling talk at last year’s NDIIPP/NDSA conference, Let Us Go Boldly into the Present I’m excited to take …

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How Do You Staff Your Digital Preservation Initiatives?

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Digital preservation is an emergent field. Businesses, cultural memory institutions and government bodies that want to responsibly preserve and generate digital assets face significant challenges with respect to staffing. How many staff do we need? What …

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“Supply Side” Digital Preservation

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

Most people working with digital information are on the “supply side.” You know, the beginning of the digital information lifecycle where you create and “supply” great stuff like photos, music, TPS reports and the like. In fact, most people are on the supply side. The technology consulting firm IDC noted in their Extracting Value from …

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The Immeasurable Library of Congress

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group. Online photo platforms increasingly support the precise positioning and browsing of user-submitted images in a three-dimensional space. Unsurprisingly, the geographic locations that are most thoroughly blanketed with photos correspond to popular tourist attractions; so many photos are taken …

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Digital Preservation’s Wicked Problems – An Interview With Megan Winget

Posted by: Susan Manus

As part of the recent meeting, DigitalPreservation 2012, there was a very lively panel session on the subject of “Preserving Digital Culture”.  Among the representatives on the panel was Megan Winget, Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin.  Megan’s talk, “The Wicked Problem of New Media Preservation”  illustrated the complexities of preserving …

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Making the Point About Digital Preservation

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. At the opening keynote of DigitalPreservation 2012, Anil Dash exhorted the digital preservation community to build bridges to other groups, from the tech community to everyday people. Just a few days later, Emily Reynolds and I got to practice talking about digital preservation with …

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Prognosticating Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Final Results from the NDSA Storage Survey

Posted by: Trevor Owens

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. Over the last few months, we have been reporting results from the storage survey conducted by the NDSA Infrastructure Working Group, one of the five working groups of the The National Digital Stewardship Alliance. See the …