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Archive: 2014 (191 Posts)

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The National Digital Stewardship Residency, Four Months In

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

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File Format Action Plans in Theory and Practice

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