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Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. Spring time in Washington, DC has a lot going for it. Cobblestone streets and historic row houses accented by blooming bushes and trees, beautiful weather with lots of sunshine and breezes, and sunsets against the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
I’ve been following the tweets coming out of Webwise 2012 this week. The annual Institute for Museum and Library Services conference is an opportunity for practitioners from museums, libraries, archives, educational institutions and other organizations to discuss and see first-hand the impact of digital technologies in their respective fields. It has a broad reach for …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post from Heather Bowden, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. Hot on the heels of the Academy Awards, we would like to present to you, Zoe Friedlander, Systems Librarian for the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture …
Posted in: Education and Training, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
One of the great things about my job is that I’m constantly absorbing new information about the preservation and access to digital content. Whether it be through relevant reports and white papers or scanning blogs and listservs or responding to email or attending meetings, I’m frequently learning about emerging policies and practices in the digital …
Posted in: Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
Looking back at the formation of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, it’s fulfilling to see we’ve come a long way from where we started. It’s been about year and a half since NDSA officially launched at the July 2010 partners meeting. Since then, fifty-five founding members participated in developing membership benefits and crafting mission and …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
The February 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201202.pdf In this issue: *The Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2011 *Thoughts and reflections on the Science 2012 conference *Update about the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act *Read about what projects the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group and the Infrastructure …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post from Heather Bowden, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. On January 3rd, it was my great pleasure to be simultaneously ringing in the New Year and starting my work as the new Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Specialist. …
Posted in: Education and Training, Inside the Library
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. Here is the third in my series of “Ask the Recommending Officer” posts. This time I feature a conversation with Atish Chatterjee about the Indian General Elections 2009 Web Archive. Who are you and what is your job at the Library of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Erin Engle
While I was exploring the new National Archives and Records Administration Transcription Pilot Project this week, I thought about how many innovative, and frankly cool, crowdsourcing platforms the libraries and archives communities launched in the past year. The New York Public Library What’s on the Menu project, the NARA Citizen Archivist Dashboard, The University of …
Posted in: Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources, Videos and Podcasts