I had the pleasure of giving a lightning talk (PDF) at last week’s Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, DC. The conference, which is free to Federal government employees, annually brings together over 2700 attendees of all experience levels to discuss the latest in geospatial technologies. I tried to have fun with it, using the …
Last Thursday I was invited to participate in a discussion organized by the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) on the future of the Federal government 1410 series. What, pray tell, is the 1410 series and why should we care about it? Turns out that the Office of Personnel Management maintains a master list of …
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group at the Library of Congress. As much as we can do to preserve archived websites once we have them, the challenges we encounter are always already determined by how those websites were originally constructed. In the interest of …
The Digital Preservation Outreach in a Box resources being compiled by the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Outreach Working group are designed as a gentle introduction to the concepts of preserving digital information. There are a lot of words in that sentence that could use some deconstruction. “Gentle,” for example. Is it possible to “gently” introduce …
