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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: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jennifer Clark, intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. I am a first-year Master of Science student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through their online distance-learning LEEP program. I am pursuing a specialization in Data Curation …
Posted in: Education and Training, Inside the Library, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. In a recent meeting, some colleagues and I discussed the age in which individuals should start understanding the basics of digital preservation. I suggested that, with children creating digital files earlier and earlier, it should be taught …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. In Part 1 of this series, we examined how a simple scanner was built and showed how the manufacturer determined their claimed “resolution.” We noted that the International Standards Organization calls this the “sampling rate” and defines resolution differently. …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Even though I’m relatively new to the professional library world, I’ve long known that digital preservation on a personal level is a daunting task laced with threats of doom. It requires great amounts of time, energy and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress I love dumb magazines. Love ‘em. The more photoshopped the front cover, the more vapid the articles, the more stereotypical the content, the more I love them. In college, while I was spelling woman with a y …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Ali Fazal, Program Management Assistant for NDSR at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library Services are pleased to announce the official open call for applications for the first National Digital Stewardship Residency. From today until April 5, 2013, applicants …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The February 2013 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201302.pdf In this issue: Digital Preservation Top Ten of 2012 Scanning: DIY or Outsource? Incorporating History in Digital Maps Is JPEG-2000 A Preservation Risk? The Power of Digital Oral History Viewshare Highlights Interviews with Peter Murray and Arfon Smith Upcoming …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. Of all the impediments to preservation, disasters fill my heart with the most dread. From the destruction of 60 percent of the Ciambue Crucifix in the 1966 flood of the Arno river, to the crashing of a …
Posted in: Digital Content