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Archive: March 2013 (21 Posts)

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An Intern Considers the Digital Preservation Challenge, Part 2

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Jennifer Clark, an NDIIPP intern from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. In yesterday’s post, I discussed how my initial ideas about digital preservation changed during my visit with NDIIPP. Today, I consider what I learned about building a socio-technical cyberinfrastructure. In an ever-changing digital …

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Residency Program Applications Due April 5th

Posted by: Susan Manus

This announcement is from the Library’s Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program. There is only a short time left to apply for the National Digital Stewardship Residency program. The deadline is April 5th, 2013!  Interested applicants can apply to the program on the USA Jobs website. The NDSR is a new field experience program developed …

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An Intern Considers the Digital Preservation Challenge, Part 1

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Jennifer Clark, an NDIIPP intern from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. I came to NDIIPP expecting to hear that institutions and the public weren’t prioritizing digital preservation, and that the next wave of librarians would need to shout from the rooftops to raise awareness …

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Death, Taxes, Digital Audits and PUPPIES!

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Note: there will be photographs of puppies throughout this post. TS Eliot wasn’t wrong. The upcoming April is the cruelest month. The days are grey and cold, the nights are rainy and windy, the temperature fluctuates wildly, and …

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Voices of the Holocaust Resonate on the Web

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum include recorded accounts from people who experienced one of the most horrific events in history. And, by the very nature of these interviews, the Museum faces a unique challenge: the last of the potential interviewees are aging and dying. Time is running out and opportunities to record …

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Hacking, Making and Library-ating: A Week in the Trenches at SXSW 2013

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

South by Southwest is a marathon. Actually, it’s more like trying to sprint your way through a hot and dusty marathon populated with approximately 60,000 badge-wearing attendees across the Interactive, Film and Music conferences and numerous others in town to bask in the vibrations. In other words, it’s crazy, amazing and discombobulating all at the …

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Announcing a Free “Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving” Publication

Posted by: Susan Manus

We are very excited to unveil our new e-publication, Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving! This is something new for us: a published compilation of selected blog posts published in The Signal. All of these posts are written by NDIIPP staff as well as guest bloggers from inside and outside the Library of Congress. This resource …

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Quest for the Critical E-dition: An interview with Leonardo Flores

Posted by: Trevor Owens

The following interview is a guest post from Jose (Ricky) Padilla, an intern with the NDIIPP program working on issues related to software preservation and the innovation and infrastructure working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. In this installment of the Insights Interviews Series I interview Dr. Leonardo Flores, Professor of English at El …