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Posted by: Susan Manus
The late Jonathan Larson went through many drafts when composing what became the hit-musical RENT. The tragic end to his life is well known – he died suddenly at age 35 in 1996 shortly before the off-Broadway opening of the musical. What may not be well known is that these early drafts of RENT and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. Is a U.S. Government website or part of a site you use or know about at risk of disappearing? Is there a website related to the 2012 U.S. Elections that you think should be preserved? Always dreamed of contributing to a collaborative …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
As a follow up to the “Preserving Digital Culture” panel from DigitalPreservation 2012, I’ve been interviewing panelists who haven’t yet been featured on The Signal. Megan Winget was previously interviewed, discussing the challenges of preserving new media. This week’s post features Doug Reside, Digital Curator with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
The August 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201208.pdf In this issue: Summary of DigitalPreservation 2012 Rescuing the Tangible from the Intangible From AIP to Zettabyte: Comparing Glossaries One Family’s Digital Archiving Project Fighting the Battle for Fleeting Attention Profile of William Kilbride Training Digital Curators Upcoming Events (Designing Storage Architectures, …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
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: Susan Manus
I was hoping to have more to contribute to an after-the-fact blog post on the 2012 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , which took place last week here in Washington, DC. But because I was on the conference organizing team, I spent most of the time either behind the registration desk answering questions, or running around …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. In a previous post I reviewed my process for end-of-the-year archiving of my picture and personal files onto two external hard disk drives. This year I went an extra step – I added all the files saved in my CD-ROM …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving