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Posted by: Susan Manus
Many of our readers are (hopefully) familiar with the NDSA , a large-scale collaboration of many organizations working together, pooling time and talents to create solutions for long term preservation of digital materials. The effort is growing by leaps and bounds – as a matter of fact, we’ve now reached a milestone – 100 organizations! …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
On October 20 I had the extreme pleasure of being one of the plenary speakers at the 2011 Best Practices Exchange. I rarely have the opportunity to get an hour all to myself to speak about pretty much whatever I want to talk about. One one hand, I wanted the opportunity to extend the topics …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Viewshare
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. Last weekend, I participated in the Save Our African American Treasures Program at the Houston Public Library. The Treasures Program is a collections and education initiative of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. For the past few years, NMAAHC’s …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. I recently attended the Best Practices Exchange 2011, held October 20-22 in Lexington, KY. The meeting focuses on the work of state archives and libraries to preserve state government digital information, although practitioners from other kinds of memory organizations are welcome. This was …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. The Future of the Past of the Web was a well-named event hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition, JISC, and the British Library on October 7th. It followed in a sequence of DPC events on …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Web Archiving
Posted by: Martha Anderson
Guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead and NDSA Content Working Group Co-Chair. As announced earlier this month, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The goal of the survey is …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post from Sam Meister, Digital Archivist, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. During the week of September 20 – 23, 2011, a group of individuals from all across the United States descended on the Library of Congress to attend the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) initiative’s first ever Train the …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Helen Tibbo is a descendant of Mayflower settlers Miles Standish and John Alden but she doesn’t flaunt her pedigree or socialize exclusively with snooty blue bloods. It’s difficult to say exactly how her Massachusetts cultural roots have defined her but she does embody bedrock New England characteristics such as self-reliance and practicality. And these traits …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest blog post by Gloria Gonzalez, a UCLA Library and Information Science graduate student and former NDIIPP Junior Fellow. I hobnobbed with celebrities in Hollywood recently. And I mean real A-list talent: I got to spend quality time with the archival stars of the moving image world at the Association of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events