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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Data Specialist for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. A previous post on this blog explored why it’s so hard to come up with a reliable measurement of the average lifespan of a webpage. In essence, the argument came down to this: links and the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
We have moved so far so fast with personal computing that older machines are acquiring a cultural patina. Everyone, seemingly, has a memory of “old computers,” even if some people think having a hard drive under 100 gigabytes fits the definition. There are perhaps two ways to think about obsolete computers. One is as trash …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
Image scanning of one sort or another has been in common usage in some industries since the 1920s. Yes, really, the 1920s. The news wire services used telephotography — where images are captured using photo cells and transmitted over phone lines — well into the 1990s. Scanners and digital cameras like those we are familiar …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Christie Moffatt, Manager, Digital Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine In this installment of the “Content Matters” series of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group, I interview Dr. Sylvia Chou, PhD, MPH, Program Director of the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and …
Posted in: Content Matters Interview, Digital Content, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Shall I compare thee to a closed format/ thou art more open and accessible. – Author after 3 coffees. In honor of William Shakespeare’s 449th birthday on April 23rd (observed) and as a tie-in with the recent digital …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to chat with Donald Mennerich, a Digital Archivist at the New York Public Library, as part of our Insights series. Insights is an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved with projects related to preservation, access and stewardship of digital information. Donald …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
This post is cross posted on the blog of the Law Library of Congress, In Custodia Legis. In Custodia Legis is an excellent source of information on current legal trends and materials from the Library’s collections pertaining to the law. Digital technology makes documents easy to alter or copy, leading to multiple non-identical versions that …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
We are excited to host a number of events in celebration of ALA’s Preservation Week (April 21-27, 2013) here at the Library of Congress next week. We’ve collaborated with the Preservation Directorate and the Veteran’s History Project on programs to provide in-person guidance and help to those interested in saving their personal collections — digital …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post by Bill Amberg, a contract software developer and Camille Salas, an intern with the Library of Congress, who are both working on Viewshare. Trevor Owens also contributed to the post. We are pleased to announce a fifth option for importing data into Viewshare – JSON. Users now have the ability …
Posted in: Viewshare