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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. You might imagine that with the web being in its twenties everyone would know exactly what a website is. But you’d be surprised – those of us in the web archiving business spend quite a bit of time pondering what makes up …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Trevor Owens
Video games represent one of the most difficult challenges for digital preservationists. Created for a diverse array of hardware and software platforms, rife with rights issues, and as expressive creative works objects which one hopes to attend to the highest levels of artifactual qualities. Despite being one of the most challenging forms of content, there …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
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 Georgina Goodlander, the Web & Social Media Content Manager for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Exhibition Coordinator for the Museum’s The Art of Video Games exhibition. There are already some nice interviews exploring the subject …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following guest post from Kathleen O’Neill, Archives Specialist in The Library of Congress Manuscript Division continues our series of posts reflecting on CurateCamp Processing. Meg Phillips’s earlier post on More Product, Less Process for Born Digital Collections focused on developing minimum standards for ingest and processing with the goal of making the maximum number …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
I had the pleasure of joining a number of colleagues at the inaugural meetup for Digital Cultural Heritage DC last night. The informal group bills itself as a monthly gathering for those “working to acquire, preserve, steward, provide access to, exhibit and interpret digital cultural heritage,” and “a great opportunity for networking with others from …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
Heads up, recent grad students! The National Digital Stewardship Residency program is in the works, and Library of Congress staff members are currently working with other institutions in the Washington, D.C. area to set up this new program, which promises to be a great opportunity for students to gain real world experience with digital preservation …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Jennifer Gunter King, Director, Harold F. Johnson Library, Hampshire College. In July, scholars, entrepreneurs and digital preservation practitioners gathered in Arlington, Va., for the annual meeting of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, DigitalPreservation 2012. NDIIPP program management director Martha …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
I am introducing a new occasional feature for my posts on this blog — a series called “Before You Were Born.” When I was an undergraduate and a graduate student at UCLA in the 1980s, one of my faculty mentors had been teaching there since 1950. His name was Albert Hoxie†, an historian who lavishly …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The launch of a new web site is the perfect opportunity for an organization to revamp itself. Information is refreshed and updated, new initiatives are touted while old content and projects get shuffled out of plain sight. Graphics and architectures change to better meet user needs and underlying technologies allow for easier management. Even an …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration