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Archive: February 2013 (21 Posts)

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

Visualizations and Digital Collections

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council, National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group co-chair and a former Fellow in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. An affordance is a characteristic of an object or thing that supports a specific activity. For …

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

Video Game Preservation at Scale: An Interview with Henry Lowood

Posted by: Trevor Owens

For a while now, Stanford University’s special collections have had the distinct honor of holding “one of the largest historical collections of interactive software in the world.” The Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing at Stanford University consists of several thousands of pieces of computer hardware and software. At a recent advisory …