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Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, an intern with the Library of Congress. Jeremy Myntti is the Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. Jeremy recently gave a presentation at the ALA Midwinter conference entitled Re-Discovering and Linking Metadata in Viewshare. In the presentation, he …
Posted in: Viewshare
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 …
Posted in: Education and Training, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving, Videos and Podcasts
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 …
Posted in: Inside the Library, 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. In this installment of the Insights Interviews Series I interview Dr. Leonardo Flores, Professor of English at El …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA