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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
When we launched The Signal one year ago today I declared that “we want to do even better,” in our efforts to share information and engage with people that have a stake in preserving digital information. So–how well did we measure up to that intent in our first year? The metrics tell an encouraging story. …
Posted in: Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Since 2005, the Library of Congress has hosted annual meetings with digital preservation partners, collaborators and others committed to keeping a record of our time. The meetings have served as a forum for sharing information about concepts, tools and best practices, and have also helped promote a vibrant community of practice. We are pleased to …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Selection–what to keep, how to keep it, and how long to keep it–quickly comes up in connection with stewardship of digital content. Consider two prevalent concepts at opposite extremes. One holds that we are failing to save enough digital content, a position taken in a recent article in the Economist, History flushed: The digital age …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by John O’Connor, Program Assistant at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In April, the Office of Strategic Initiatives hosted a discussion panel on the creation of a curriculum for the new National Digital Stewardship Residency. The NDSR is a new partner venture between the Library of …
Posted in: Education and Training
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Do you wonder if cloud storage is a good option for your personal digital photographs? Do you have questions about metadata and file formats? Are you uneasy about the prospects of keeping your digital photos available for yourself and your family into the future? If so, you have lots of company. On April 26, over …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
DigitalPreservation 2012 is scheduled for July 24-26, and will be held in the Washington, DC, area. The theme is access to digital content under stewardship. We are lining up exciting keynote speakers and looking forward to a lively exchange of ideas. Our annual summer meeting of NDIIPP partners, National Digital Stewardship Alliance members and interested …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
They lie in wait, silent sentinels from the era when personal computing first burst into our lives. Their secrets are inscrutable to the human eye. Often they have lived for years–decades even–under rough conditions that challenge their fundamentally delicate constitutions. Floppy disks are both a bane and a blessing to digital preservationists. The blessing part …
Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by George Alter, Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Research data produced by federally funded scientific projects should be freely available to the wider research community and the public at large. That simple statement should not be controversial, especially as federal research funding agencies increasingly require …
Posted in: Digital Content
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. In this installment of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group Insights series, I am excited to have the chance to chat with Bram van der Werf, Executive Director of the Open Planets …
Posted in: Insights Interview, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure