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Archive: May 2013 (3 Posts)

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Digital Preservation Pioneer: Clifford Lynch

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Clifford Lynch is widely regarded as an oracle in the culture of networked information. Lynch monitors the global information ecosystem for cultural trends and technological developments. He ponders their variables, interdependencies and influencing factors. He confers with colleagues and draws conclusions. Then he reports his observations through lectures, conference presentations and writings. People who know …

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Reality Check: What Most People Actually Do with Their Personal Digital Archives

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

While Noah Lenstra was working on a website about African-American history in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, many of the people he met at local public libraries, churches and businesses told him they had personal and family memorabilia they wanted to digitize, or they had digital stuff that they didn’t know what to do with. Lenstra, a PhD student …

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New Video: Digital Preservation at the Library of Congress’s Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

We produce occasional short videos  related to digital preservation. These videos address such topics as personal digital archiving, adding descriptions to digital photographs and the K-12 Web Archiving program, to name a few. Our newest video profiles one of the Library of Congress’s most magnificent treasures: the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, located in …