The December 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201212.pdf In this issue: Digital Preservation Pioneer: Martha Anderson, Director Program Management NDIIPP Levels of Digital Preservation Candidate One Release Find out about the latest PDF/A specification: PDF/A-3 Did you know that museums had computer networks in the 1960’s? Read about a recent …
The October 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201210.pdf In this issue: *Find out how you can help define levels of digital preservation *Reflections on CurateCamp processing *Read about three individuals who are working on the preservation of video games *Learn about the difference between domains and subdomains in web archiving …
The June 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201206.pdf In this issue: The Library of Congress digital preservation blog, The Signal, is a year old A recap of the week-long International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly News from The Signal: Defining the “Big” in Big Data; GeoMAPP and the Future of …
It’s Preservation Week! How are you celebrating it? Attending an event at your local library? Holding an event? Thinking about some of your own personal collections that may need preservation treatment to pass on? Even though our blog focuses on the preservation of digital materials, we are about raising awareness and promoting preservation-related activities. That’s …
March 2012 marks the fourth anniversary of our Digital Preservation Newsletter. With this issue, we’ve updated our look and feel. But you’ll notice that our content remains focused on providing current information for the digital preservation community. Thanks to all of our over 18,000 subscribers for your support! http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201203.pdf In this issue: *Check out the …
The February 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201202.pdf In this issue: *The Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2011 *Thoughts and reflections on the Science 2012 conference *Update about the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act *Read about what projects the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group and the Infrastructure …
The following is a guest post from Heather Bowden, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. On January 3rd, it was my great pleasure to be simultaneously ringing in the New Year and starting my work as the new Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Specialist. …
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. Here is the third in my series of “Ask the Recommending Officer” posts. This time I feature a conversation with Atish Chatterjee about the Indian General Elections 2009 Web Archive. Who are you and what is your job at the Library of …