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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Ted Westervelt, head of acquisitions and cataloging for U.S. Serials – Arts, Humanities & Sciences at the Library of Congress. As summer has fully arrived now, so too has the revised 2016-2017 version of the Library of Congress’s Recommended Formats Statement. When the Library of Congress first issued the …
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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Barrie Howard. The Library of Congress’s Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program delivered a train-the-trainer workshop on June 10, providing professional development in digital preservation to library professionals from Kentucky and West Virginia. The workshop was held at Northern Kentucky University and sponsored by the State Assisted Academic Library …
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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Eckerd College faculty David Gliem, associate professor of Art History, and Nancy Schuler, librarian and assistant professor of Electronic Resources, Collection Development and Instructional Services. On June 3rd, a meeting at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, brought key experts and College departments together to begin plans for the …
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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Julia Kim, archivist in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The American Folklife Center just celebrated 40 years since it was founded by Congressional mandate. But its origins far predate 1976; its earlier incarnation was the Archive of Folk Song,which was founded in 1928 and was …
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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post from Julia Kim, archivist in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The annual meeting of the Radcliffe Technology Workshop (April 4th – April 5th, #radtech16) brought together historians, (digital) humanists and archivists for an intensive discussion of the “digital turn” and its effect on our work. The …
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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Robert R. Buckley, Technical Adviser at the National Archives of the UAE in Abu Dhabi and the Coordinator for the PERSIST Policy Working Group. Readers of this blog would have first seen mention of the UNESCO PERSIST project in The Signal last January. It occurred in a guest post …
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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
“Simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Most of us comb through a lifelong collection of personal papers and photos either when we have plenty of free time (typically in retirement) or when we have to deal with the belongings of a deceased loved one. All too often the job seems so daunting and overwhelming …
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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Julie Seifert. As part of the National Digital Stewardship Residency, I am assessing the Harvard Library Digital Repository Service, comparing it to the ISO16363 standard for trusted digital repositories (which is similar to TRAC). The standard is made up of over 100 individual metrics that address various aspects of …
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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Nicole Contaxis. On April 12th2016, Alice Allen, editor of the Astrophysics Source Code Library, came to the National Library of Medicine to speak with National Digital Stewardship Residency participants, mentors and visitors about the importance of software as a research object and about why the ASCL is a necessary and …
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