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Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
By Butch Lazorchak and Trevor Owens We’ve talked in the past on the Signal on the need more applied research in digital preservation and stewardship. This is a key issue addressed by the 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship, which dives in a little deeper to suggest that there’s a great need to strengthen the …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Kim Schroeder, a lecturer at the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science. Several years ago before the glory of the annual NDSA conference, professionals across America were seeking more digital curation literature and professional contacts. Basic questions like ‘what is the first step in digital …
Posted in: Education and Training, NDSA, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
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 Yesterday we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web. How many of you can remember the first time you saw a website, clicked on …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
“Location is everywhere.” It’s become a catch phrase in mobile computing development and marketing, but it could just as easily become standard operating procedure in libraries, archives and museums as our content becomes increasingly geoenabled, using “location intelligence” to liberate our physical information from the confines of our walled spaces. Legislators, funders and planners have …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA, Publications and Resources