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Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Baseball season is upon us! It’s time we root root root for the home teams, eat peanuts and crackerjacks, and yell at the umpires. It is also time to delight in the zany antics of mascots. However, there …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group is excited to launch a new series for the Signal. We’re calling it Content Matters, and much like the Insights series that the Innovation Working Group has published here for few years now, the interview series will feature discussions and stories about the content that our members …
Posted in: Content Matters Interview, Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
This past April 8 was the 2013 “Day of Digital Humanities.” Started in 2010, this is an annual event of blogging and tweeting about the experience of digital humanities by graduate students, professors, alt-academics, librarians and other participants who identify with the field. And “the field” of Digital Humanities can be whatever you define it …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by David Riecks, leader of the Photo Metadata Project. Storing information about your images inside the image itself provides a number of useful benefits. Digital photographers may refer to this as embedded photo metadata or just metadata for short. For professional photographers it’s an easy way to let potential publishers …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by Kim Schroeder, Wayne State University Lecturer and WSU NDSA Student Group Faculty Advisor. Sometimes a professional conference offers you nothing new. Sometimes it changes your direction. Sometimes and perhaps more critically, it confirms your route. I suppose I look at the NDSA as my professional Global Positioning System. Since …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Erin Engle
The April 2013 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (PDF) is now available. In this issue: Nominate an individual, student, organization or project for the annual National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Awards A Digital Preservation Fairy Tale: Snow Byte and the Seven Formats Interviews with: Mark Leggott, University Librarian at the University of Prince Edward …
Posted in: Publications and Resources
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. This time in the Insights Interviews series we get the chance to speak with Michael Mansfield, an associate curator …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post from Vidya Vish, The Library of Congress Contracting Officer for the Third Party Digitization RFP. The Library’s collections include tens of millions of items – not just books, but also manuscripts, monographs, serials, newspapers, pamphlets, sound recordings, films, videos, sheet music, photographs, posters, microfilm and maps. Our collections are at …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by David Brunton, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress have partnered to enhance access to historic newspapers for many years with the National Digital Newspaper Program. A centerpiece of this …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure