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Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post from Michael Neubert, a Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist at the Library of Congress. The Library has had a web archiving program since the early 2000s. As with other national libraries, the Library of Congress web archiving program started out harvesting the web sites of its national election campaigns, followed …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
In September the Library held its annual Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections meeting. The meeting brings together technical experts from the computer storage industry with decision-makers from a wide range of organizations with digital preservation requirements to explore the issues and opportunities around the storage of digital information for the long-term. I always learn …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post from Michael Neubert, a Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist at the Library of Congress. Since the U.S. national elections of 2000, the Library of Congress has been harvesting the web sites of candidates for elections for Congress, state governorships and the presidency. These collections require considerable manual effort to identify …
Posted in: Content Matters Interview, Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following post was authored by Erin Engle, Michelle Gallinger, Butch Lazorchak, Jane Mandelbaum and Trevor Owens from the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress held the 10th annual Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections meeting September 22-23, 2014. This meeting is an annual opportunity for invited technical industry experts, IT professionals, digital collections …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Patrick Rourke, an Information Technology Specialist and the newest member of the Library’s Viewshare team. I made my first forays into computing on days when it was too cold, wet or snowy to walk in the woods behind our house, in a room filled with novels, atlases and …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Viewshare
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Woodward, an Information Technology Specialist and the newest member of the Library’s Web Archiving team. The path that lead me to the Library of Congress was long and circuitous, and it includes everything from a tiny web startup to teaching economics in Nicaragua to rediscovering a passion …
Posted in: Inside the Library
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Chris Adams from the Repository Development Center at the Library of Congress, the technical lead for the World Digital Library. Preservation is usually about maintaining as much information as possible for the future but access requires us to balance factors like image quality against file size and design …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Chris Adams from the Repository Development Center at the Library of Congress, the technical lead for the World Digital Library. We live in an age of cheap bits: scanning objects en masse has never been easier, storage has never been cheaper and large-scale digitization has become routine for …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post from Gavin Frome, an intern for the Web Archiving Team at the Library of Congress. Performing artists are by necessity a traveling people. They journey far and wide in the pursuit of their respective crafts, working, learning and weaving a fabric of loose cultural connections that help bind people …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library