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Posted by: Erin Engle
It’s the end of the year on The Signal, and it gives us the chance to look back at our most popular posts of the year. As we have in past years, we were thrilled to share projects and updates that are happening in the community or for the community. Digital stewardship on a national …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Alexandra Curran, National Digital Stewardship Resident at MIT Libraries. She participates in the NDSR-Boston cohort. Hello readers, and happy holidays! Looking back at the last few months of my residency working in collaboration with the Digital Preservation Unit (DPU) at MIT Libraries and especially their Lead for Digital …
Posted in: Education and Training
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University. In this edition of the Insights Interview series for the NDSA Innovation Working Group, I was excited to talk with collaborators on Cornell University Library’s Preservation & Access Framework for Digital Art Objects project: Madeline …
Posted in: Insights Interview, NDSA
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager at the Library of Congress. More often than not, the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative Working Groups (one for still images, one for audio-visual) find themselves walking a line between codifying widely adopted practices and exploring new ideas and new technologies …
Posted in: FADGI, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
This post was originally published on the Folklife Today blog, which features folklife topics, highlighting the collections of the Library of Congress, especially the American Folklife Center and the Veterans History Project. In this post, Nicole Saylor, head of the American Folklife Center Archive, talks about the StoryCorps.me mobile app and interviews Kate Zwaard and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by John Caldwell, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the United States Senate Historical Office. Who remembers Home Improvement? Tim the “Tool Man” Taylor was always trying to show the “Tool Time” audience how to build things, make repairs and of course, demo new tools made by the show’s sponsor, …
Posted in: Education and Training, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Karen Cariani, AAPB Project Director and Director WGBH Media Library and Archive, Alan Gevinson, AAPB Project Director and Special Assistant to the Packard Campus Chief, and Casey Davis, Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting, WGBH Educational Foundation. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) Project Team at …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
On behalf of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group, I am excited to announce the 2015 NDSA Innovation Award winners! This year, the annual innovation awards committee reviewed over thirty exceptional nominations from across the country. Awardees were selected based on how their work or their project’s whose goals or outcomes represent an …
Posted in: NDSA, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
Kalev Leetaru, a senior fellow at George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, has written for The Signal in previous posts. I recently had the chance to ask him about his latest work, processing and analyzing digitized books stretching back two centuries. Erin: You recently completed research and analysis on large datasets of …
Posted in: Digital Content