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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, a Digital Archivist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. We here at NDIIPP are always on the lookout for opportunities to help the digital preservation community improve their work. In this respect, I was excited to see the announcement for the National Endowment …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
NDIIPP managed to acquire a brief hipster sheen at the recent South by Southwest gathering in Austin, TX. The annual SXSW event bills itself as “the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies,” and “the premier destination for discovery.” To my admittedly unpracticed eye, the event indeed looked like it lives at …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting Steps in a Digital Preservation Workflow as part of the American Library Association/Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Online Learning program. I talked about planning and building a staged process for preserving digital information in a cultural heritage context. Part of what I covered relates to ideas …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
We do a fair amount of personal digital archiving outreach. Our main goal is to raise awareness that people who create and keep personal digital information need to take steps to ensure their data persists. We hit the point over and over that digital files are maddeningly apt to disappear due to a host of …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving