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Posted by: Susan Manus
For many organizations that are just starting to tackle digital preservation, it can be a daunting challenge – and particularly difficult to figure out the first steps to take. Education and training may be the best starting point, creating and expanding the expertise available to handle this kind of challenge. The Digital Preservation Outreach and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The National Digital Stewardship Residency program just completed the first year of residencies in the Washington, DC area. The second, upcoming round of residencies will take place in New York and Boston, and both cities have recently announced the selection of residents and projects. At this year’s Digital Preservation 2014, there will be a panel …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
The National Digital Stewardship Residency program has recently announced the next group of 10 residents selected for this prestigious program. This Residency program, funded by the IMLS, has just completed its inaugural year, with 10 residents working in various organizations in the Washington, DC area. The next round of the NDSR will begin in September …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
Some good news coming out of the National Digital Stewardship Residency program – the host institutions and projects for the upcoming year have now been announced! The NDSR, an initiative to develop new professionals in digital stewardship through funded, post-graduate residencies, is wrapping up the first successful year of the program, held in 10 different …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Margo Padilla, Program Manager for NDSR-NY. With a month remaining in the inaugural term of the National Digital Stewardship Residency program, the cohort is busy putting the finishing touches on projects, participating in closing program events and planning future endeavors. Since arriving in Washington DC last September, residents …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Erica Titkemeyer, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Smithsonian Institution Archives As the National Digital Stewardship Resident placed within the Smithsonian Institution Archives I have been tasked with identifying the specialized digital curation requirements for time‐based media art (TBMA). I typically use this definition to best describe TBMA (also referred to here as digital media art): artwork containing …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jaime McCurry, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Folger Shakespeare Library. It’s certainly been an exciting and busy few months for the National Digital Stewardship Residents and although we are well into the final portion of our projects, we’re showing no signs of slowing down. In addition to …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Lauren Work, a National Digital Stewardship Resident at PBS. After our inaugural experience presenting just a few weeks ago at ALA Midwinter, the residents of the National Digital Stewardship Residency program headed to WebWise 2014 in Baltimore, MD on February 10th to present our project progress as well …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Maureen McCormick Harlow, a National Digital Stewardship Resident at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. She is working on a project to build a thematic web collection. Greetings from the National Library of Medicine! It’s hard to believe it, but I’m heading into the fourth quarter …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training