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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Like a comedian from yesteryear, email gets no respect. What it does get is plenty of ire. I’m always hearing about how email is “out of control” and that we waste too much time dealing with it. Or that we don’t have enough time to deal with it. One writer proclaims 10 Reasons I Don’t …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, a Digital Archivist and Abbey Potter, a Program Officer in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. When historians look back on late 20th and early 21st century science they will undoubtedly be interested in understanding how the web has facilitated, altered and otherwise shifted …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by Lisa Gregory, Digital Projects Liaison, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina. About two weeks ago, I tried a little thought experiment. Throughout the course of an afternoon, for each person I spoke with or saw, I imagined myself talking to them about digital preservation. From grocery store …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. As discussed in a previous post, the NDSA Infrastructure Working Group recently conducted an extensive survey of NDSA member preservation storage systems. While the survey examined a wide range of preservation storage trends and activities, it …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. This week, my Library of Congress colleague Abbey Potter and I will participate in ScienceOnline 2012, an international unconference on science and the web. We are both excited to learn more about the interesting and valuable resources scientists, …
Posted in: Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by Ellen O’Donnell, Technical Writer, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, who recently spent a year on detail in OSI. When shepherd Christopher Day made a routine check of his boss’s flock, he noticed that a sheep was missing. Word got around town. An alert policeman spotted a suspicious …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
It’s time to take stock of the most memorable digital preservation happenings of 2011. This is a challenge, since many organizations around the world have done fine work and a full accounting would be long. Really, really web-unfriendly long. Hence the virtue of the top 10 trope: brevity makes up for ruthless exclusion. In that …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The University of North Texas College of Information with the International Internet Preservation Consortium is seeking applications for a 3-year doctoral studies support award. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2012, and annual financial support is approximately $40,000 (USD). The awardee will be directly involved with the activities of the IIPC and will experience …
Posted in: Education and Training
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience digital collections. It was launched a few months ago and it has been featured …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure, Viewshare