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Posted by: Susan Manus
Every once in awhile here at “The Signal”, we will feature the work of staff members to highlight what’s going on “behind the scenes” in NDIIPP. This week, it’s not a person it’s a team – the NDIIPP Communications Team, to be exact. Six staff members – Mike Ashenfelder, Erin Engle, Butch Lazorchak, Abbey Potter …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Martha Anderson
Saving digital information is a lot like jazz — it is creative, diverse, and collaborative. There are a variety of styles and musical approaches to jazz. Jazz musicians contribute their unique and unscripted experience and response to the composition. Digital preservation organizations partnering with the Library are a diverse, creative and collaborative community developing tools …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The American Society of Media Photographers is a trade organization whose members create works primarily for publication. ASMP offers members legal, business and technical information and it advocates for photographers’ legal rights. In 2007, NDIIPP awarded funding to ASMP, which ASMP used to develop a comprehensive digital photography resource online. ASMP titled it Digital Photography …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
It’s many adults’ worst nightmare: how to entertain and (try to) educate thirty 8th graders for an hour? Especially when the subject matter is as potentially complex as how to preserve digital information. Well, the first thing to do is to try and think like the teenagers who visited the Library on May 13, 2011 …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
We are excited and happy that the Library of Congress digital preservation program is now part of the blogosphere. Our official name is the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, or NDIIPP (pronounced “n-dip”). You might find the acronym cryptic. But the name packs in a lot of meaning and a big mission. Plus, …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration