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Archive: January 2014 (3 Posts)

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Data: A Love Story in the Making

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

Here’s a simple experiment that involves asking an average person two questions. Question one is: “how do you feel about physical books?” Question two is: “how do you feel about digital data?” The first question almost surely will quickly elicit warm, positive exclamations about a life-long relationship with books, including the joy of using and …

Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events

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Two New Exciting Research Data Infrastructure Projects: Or From Soup to Nuts and Back (Maybe)

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

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NDSA National Agenda Digital Content Area: Web and Social Media

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