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Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
Yesterday’s blog post described some of the federal government initiatives that have driven data management requirements over the past ten years or so. “Data management” is a hot job area right now, and if you tilt the digital stewardship universe a certain direction, almost everything we do falls under the rubric of “data management.” Data …
Posted in: NDSA, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
On February 26, 2003 the National Institutes of Health released the “Final NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data.” As you’ll be reminded when you visit that link, 2003 was eons ago in “internet time.” Yet the vision NIH had for the expanded sharing of research data couldn’t have been more prescient. As the Open Government …
Posted in: Publications and Resources
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 A researcher, a crawl engineer, a program manager and a curator walk into a national library… sounds like the start to a great joke, doesn’t it? But it actually …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. This is the second post (of two) on the recently posted comparison of selected digital file formats compiled by the Still Images Working Group within the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative. In this post, I’ll offer some thoughts about JPEG …
Posted in: FADGI, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. The Still Image Working Group within the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) recently posted a comparison of a few selected digital file formats. We sometimes call these target formats: they are the output format that you reformat to. In …
Posted in: FADGI, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Kris Nelson, Program Management Specialist at the Library of Congress and Program Coordinator of the National Digital Stewardship Residency. It’s hard to believe that the current cohort of National Digital Stewardship Residents will conclude their program later this month. After nine months of working on their projects, attending …
Posted in: Education and Training, Partners and Collaboration