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Archive: July 2015 (4 Posts)

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Mapping Libraries: Creating Real-time Maps of Global Information

Posted by: Erin Engle

The following is a guest post by Kalev Hannes Leetaru, a data scientist and Senior Fellow at George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. In a previous post, he introduced us to the GDELT Project, a platform that monitors the news media, and presented how mass translation of the world’s information offers libraries …

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How to Participate in the September 2015 NDSA New England Regional Meeting

Posted by: Erin Engle

The following is a guest post by Kevin Powell, digital preservation librarian at Brown University. On September 25th, UMass Dartmouth will host the National Digital Stewardship Alliance New England Regional Meeting with Brown University. We enthusiastically encourage librarians, archivists, preservation specialists, knowledge managers, and anyone else with an interest in digital stewardship and preservation to …

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Keeping Up With the Joneses: The New Recommended Formats Statement

Posted by: Erin Engle

The following post is by Ted Westervelt, head of acquisitions and cataloging for U.S. Serials in the Arts, Humanities & Sciences section at the Library of Congress. Issuing the Recommended Format Specifications When the Recommended Format Specifications were issued last summer, the Library of Congress was making an attempt to come to grips with the …

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Exploring Web Archiving at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Erin Engle

The following is a guest post by Samantha Abrams, an intern for the Web Archiving Team at the Library of Congress. As a library school graduate student, I developed an interest in archives and born-digital objects (content pulled from floppy disks, web pages, Tweets, and on) but I lack practical, professional experience working with these …