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Archive: May 2013 (20 Posts)

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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 …

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Understanding User Generated Tags for Digital Collections: An Interview with Jennifer Golbeck

Posted by: Trevor Owens

This is a guest post by Jose “Ricky” Padilla, a HACU intern working with NDIIPP. More and more cultural heritage organizations are inviting their users to tag collection items to help aggregate, sort and filter collection items. If we could better understand how and why users tag and what they’re tagging we can better understand how …