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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
We hear a constant stream of news about how crunching massive data collections will change everything from soup to nuts. Here on The Signal, it’s fair to say that scientific research data is close to the heart of our hopes, dreams and fears when it comes to big data: we’ve written over two-dozen posts touching on …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The 2014 National Digital Stewardship Agenda, released in July 2013, is still a must-read (have you read it yet?). It integrates the perspective of dozens of experts to provide funders and decision-makers with insight into emerging technological trends, gaps in digital stewardship capacity and key areas for development. The Agenda suggests a number of important …
Posted in: NDSA, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead and Co-Chair of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group You may have seen the news on this blog and elsewhere that the National Digital Stewardship Alliance launched the first ever National Agenda for Digital Stewardship last July. One …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA
Posted by: Erin Engle
The Library Company of Philadelphia will be hosting Philadelphia’s first National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Regional Meeting and Unconference on January 23 and 24. This is part of an initiative across the country for NDSA member organizations to host day-long events, or “NDSA Regional Meetings,” that provide networking and collaboration opportunities for members and highlight the work of …
Posted in: NDSA, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Abbey Potter
Following is a guest blog post from Lisa Shiota, a student at Drexel University School of Information and Library Science and a staff member in the Music Division at the Library of Congress. She explains how she utilized Viewshare in a digital library technologies class. I am currently finishing classes towards a post-graduate certificate in …
Posted in: Viewshare
Posted by: Susan Manus
The January 2014 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (pdf) is now available! Included in this issue: Two digital preservation pioneers: Steve Puglia and Gary Marchionini New NDSA Report: Staffing for Digital Preservation GIS Data at Montana State Library Upcoming events: NDSA regional meeting, ALA Midwinter, International Digital Curation Conference Interviews with …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
It was raining hard on Sunday morning November 17, 2013, as librarian Genna (pronounced “Gina”) Buhr anxiously watched the Weather Channel coverage of the storm system battering central Illinois. Buhr, Public Services Manager at Illinois’ Fondulac District Library, was visiting her parents in Utica, Illinois, about an hour north of Buhr’s home. Her two young …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post from Emily Reynolds, Resident with the World Bank Group Archives For the next several months, the National Digital Stewardship Residents will be interrupting your regularly-scheduled Signal programming to bring you updates on our projects and the program in general. We’ll be posting on alternate weeks through the end of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Inside the Library
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is a guest post from Lee Nilsson, a National Digital Stewardship Resident working with the Repository Development Center at The Library of Congress. The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship makes a clear-cut case for the development of File Format Action Plans to combat format obsolescence issues. “Now that stewardship organizations are amassing large collections of digital …
Posted in: Education and Training, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure