The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. Frequency of occurring? Rare. Impact of occurring? Huge. I’m talking about digital disasters. Stewards of digital content, like stewards of analog content, must plan for catastrophe in advance in order to minimize loss and recover quickly. True, digital disasters may occur infrequently. But at …
This year’s Best Practices Exchange will take place on December 4-6 in Annapolis, MD. The Maryland State Archives has graciously agreed to host the meeting. BPE meetings focus on the management of digital information in state government, and bring together practitioners to discuss real-world experiences, including tools, services and lessons learned. The meetings have taken …
The following is a guest post by Emily Reynolds, a 2012 Junior Fellow. As we mentioned in our introductory post last month, the OSI Junior Fellows are working on a project involving a draft digital preservation policy framework. One component of our work is revising a glossary that accompanies the framework. We’ve spent the last …
Advertisers and economists talk about a concept known as the value proposition. It refers to what makes a product or service valuable to others. In the context of how preserving institutions communicate, the value proposition bluntly asks: why should anyone pay attention to what an organization has to say? When we talk about digital preservation, …
The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. A packed house heard Tony Hey and Clifford Lynch present on The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Research, Digital Scholarship and Implications for Libraries at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference. Jim Gray coined The Fourth Paradigm in 2007 to reflect a movement toward data-intensive science. Adapting …
Registration is now open for DigitalPreservation 2012, which will take place July 24-26. This is the latest in a series of meetings the Library of Congress has held since 2005 as a forum for sharing information about digital stewardship concepts, tools and best practices. The meeting is in two parts. Both will be held as …
The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. A recent behind-the-scenes tour of the Packard Campus of the Library of Congress in Culpeper, VA, offered us Junior Fellows a glimpse into the cutting edge of audiovisual preservation, as well as insight into incremental development of a digital preservation effort. Undoubtedly one of …
The following is guest post from Amy Rudersdorf, Director, Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina. We’ve got high hopes . . . Just what makes that little ole ant Think he’ll move that rubber tree plant? Anyone knows an ant can’t Move a rubber tree plant But he’s got high …
The following is a guest post by Emily Reynolds and Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellows. Every summer, the Library of Congress hosts interns as part of its Junior Fellows program. This year, 38 students from across the country were placed in a variety of library departments. Two fellows—Emily Reynolds and Chelcie Rowell—are working in the …
