Last Thursday I was invited to participate in a discussion organized by the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) on the future of the Federal government 1410 series. What, pray tell, is the 1410 series and why should we care about it? Turns out that the Office of Personnel Management maintains a master list of …
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 …
On January 6, 2012, I had the opportunity to attend CurateGear, an interactive, day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This meeting did many things right. It introduced attendees to the wide spectrum of digital curation activities, from appraisal to ingest to auditing …
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, a Digital Archivist and Abbey Potter, a Program Officer in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. When historians look back on late 20th and early 21st century science they will undoubtedly be interested in understanding how the web has facilitated, altered and otherwise shifted …
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. This week, my Library of Congress colleague Abbey Potter and I will participate in ScienceOnline 2012, an international unconference on science and the web. We are both excited to learn more about the interesting and valuable resources scientists, …
The January 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation newsletter is now available (PDF). In this issue: *A review of the Digital Formats Sustainability website and news about the addition of 35 geospatial formats to the site *Digital stewards are invited to comment on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI on public …
I’ve written a couple of blog posts (as a guest blogger) about the personal digital archiving talks I’ve given and about some of our events. So for my first post as an “official” NDIIPP blogger, it seems fitting I write about a recent talk I gave at a meeting of the Washington DC Chapter of …
In November of 2011 I had the pleasure of attending the annual World Digital Library partner’s meeting in Munich, Germany, hosted by the Bavarian State Library. This year’s meeting was a highly productive series of working sessions, highlighting the exceptional progress of the initiative and the current and future efforts of the partner institutions in …
It’s time to take stock of the most memorable digital preservation happenings of 2011. This is a challenge, since many organizations around the world have done fine work and a full accounting would be long. Really, really web-unfriendly long. Hence the virtue of the top 10 trope: brevity makes up for ruthless exclusion. In that …