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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
As you play a digital music file on an audio-enabled device such as a computer or smart phone, the audio player displays information about the song. Sometimes that happens because the player has an associated database, sometime that happens because the information is embedded in the file. This blog is about embedding, how song information …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
I had the opportunity today to talk at the Big Data and Big Challenges for Law and Legal Information symposium at the Georgetown University Law Center. The event marked the 125th anniversary of the University Law Library. My panel was on Big Data Applications in Scholarship and Policy, and I was pleased to present with …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead While organizations have been archiving the web since the mid-1990s, it’s only in the last few years that there’s been a surge in web archivists speaking out about issues they encounter, uses of archives, and innovations in tools and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by Chris Adams, in the Repository Development Center, technical lead for the World Digital Library at the the Library of Congress. Like many people who work with digital imagery, I’ve been looking forward to the JPEG-2000 image format for a long time due to solid technical advantages: superior compression performance …
Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Erin Engle
At our personal digital archiving events, we get various questions about scanning family photos, slides, negatives and film. Questions like: What type of scanner should I use? What resolution should I use? How can I scan negatives? While we’ve focused on developing tips and resources for saving personal digital materials created with software and hardware, …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Abbey Potter
Last October Viewshare turned two. I know what you’re going to say: Viewshare is getting so big and is so advanced for it’s age! We agree. (Editor’s note: the Viewshare program was retired in 2018.) This post will round up links to recent papers, presentations and blog posts that show how Viewshare enhances access to …
Posted in: Viewshare
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. My interest in digital preservation began many years before I started my master’s degree. I was working on a long and arduous project and located a very helpful looking resource created in the 1980s at a local …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
Did you know that John Wilkes Booth was involved in an incident at Lincoln’s second inauguration, in March of 1865? It was seen as a mere scuffle at the time, but significant later on, as it happened about six weeks before Booth assassinated President Lincoln on that fateful day in April, 1865. The whole fascinating …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I am excited to continue the NDSA infrastructure working group’s ongoing exploration of the role that open source software can and is playing in supporting long term access to digital cultural heritage with this interview with Peter Murray about FOSS4lib, “the site that helps libraries decide if and which open source software is right for …
Posted in: NDSA, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure