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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Jessica Tieman. Three quarters of the way into my twelve-month National Digital Stewardship Residency at the U.S. Government Publishing Office, I reflect on the success and challenges of my project. I also recognize how the outcome of my work will impact the future of the GPO, its business units, the communities within the …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post from Dinah Handel. For the past six months, I’ve been immersed in the day to day operations of the archive and library at CUNY Television, a public television station located at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My National Digital Stewardship residency has consisted of a …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is guest post by Hirad Dinavari, reference specialist for the Iranian World Collections, African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Watch a video of Hirad Dinavari giving a guided tour of the exhibition “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book.” The exciting thing about working at the Library is that you …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Valerie Collins. As part of the National Digital Stewardship Residency DC program, each resident develops and hosts a half-day enrichment session for the cohort and their mentors. The topic is up to the resident, as long as it is on some aspect of digital preservation. For my enrichment session, …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSR
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Alice Sara Prael. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library began the “Access to Legacy” project in 2007 with the goal to digitize, describe, and permanently retain millions of presidential documents, photographs, and audiovisual recordings. Since the project began the Library has accumulated over 150 terabytes of data. With …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Kathryn Gronsbell, Digital Asset Manager, Carnegie Hall; Shira Peltzman, Digital Archivist, UCLA Library; Ashley Blewer, Applications Developer, NYPL; and Rebecca Fraimow, Archivist and AAPB NDSR Program Coordinator, WGBH. The intersection of digital preservation and audiovisual archiving has reached a tipping point. As the media production and use landscape …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Project Manager in the National Digital Initiatives unit at the Library of Congress. It’s not for everyone, but I enjoy trying to figure out specialized technical terminology, even at a superficial level. For the last month or two, I have been helping assemble a revision …
Posted in: FADGI, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Genevieve Havemeyer-King, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Wildlife Conservation Society Library & Archives. She participates in the NDSR-NYC cohort. This post is Part 2 on Genevieve’s exploration of stewardship issues for preserving geospatial data. Part 1 focuses on specific challenges of archiving geodata. Frank Donnelly, GIS Librarian …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Genevieve Havemeyer-King, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Wildlife Conservation Society Library & Archives. She participates in the NDSR-NY cohort. This post is Part 1 of 2 posts on Genevieve’s exploration of stewardship issues for preserving geospatial data. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, NDSR