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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. When my family and friends ask what I do at the Library of Congress, I invariably get questioning looks when I use the phrase “digital preservation.” The looks turn even more quizzical when I talk about my work managing a project focusing on …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Gloria Gonzalez, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. As August begins, our time as NDIIPP Junior Fellows is coming to an end. The four of us—Victoria Priester, Kristin Snawder, Cristina Bilmanis and myself—were introduced on The Signal at the beginning of June. Since then, we’ve worked on …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. We will post future updates as they become available every week. The listing below is from last week. Here is your weekly round-up of digital preservation articles: Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. How can the digital stewardship community do more to recognize and encourage innovation in the field? That was the central question posed to the participants of And the Winner Is…, a workshop hosted by the National Digital Stewardship …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Our 2011 partners meeting concluded yesterday. The theme was “Make it Work: Improvisations on the Stewardship of Digital Information,” and all the various pieces seemed to come together nicely in this, our sixth year of partners meetings. Truth be told, there was anxiety floating around the office as we planned the meeting. Figurative–and sometimes literal–white …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Day two of the 2011 NDIIPP partners meeting featured several workshops focusing on digital stewardship. Highlights from each of the workshops are below. Slaying the Dragons: What is at risk and how do we rescue it? Sponsored by the Content Working Group. The group discussed the goals of a proposed “adoption clearinghouse” for at-risk data. …
Posted in: Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Today is the first day of the 2011 NDIIPP partners meeting. We are starting out with a bang: a keynote from Tim O’Reilly. Our other opening speakers are Siva Vaidhyanathan, Yancy Strickler, Micheal Edson and Aaron Presnall. When I think back to the first NDIIPP partners meeting six years ago, two opposing thoughts rattle my …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Victoria Priester, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. During my first week as a Library of Congress Junior Fellow I was given the North Carolina Public Outreach and Education Project. The project’s objective was to send resources and information about personal digital preservation to public libraries, community …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
After launching on May 31, “The Signal” had a strong first month. We published 27 posts and are pleased to have had over 60 comments during June. The blog appears to reach a broad audience, which is exactly what we hoped for. Staff wrote about digital preservation outreach events, significant reports and publications, data forensics …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources