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Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
Hannah Sommers has done just about every job one can do in a library. Today she serves as NPR’s first Library Program Manager, helping forge a new path for the profession in her role directing product development for the NPR Library. This is her guest post. NPR’s mission is to create a more informed public, …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post from Joshua Sternfeld, National Endowment for the Humanities and Gail Truman, Truman Technologies. The statements and ideas expressed here are attributed solely to the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of any federal agency or institution. As the National Digital Stewardship Alliance prepares to add new categories of …
Posted in: NDSA, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Many institutions and individuals that use CDs as a storage medium are now concerned because information technologists have deemed the medium to be unsuitable for long-term use. As a result, institutions are racing to get the data off the discs as quickly and safely as possible and into a more reliable digital storage environment. Two …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
The National Digital Stewardship Residency program has recently announced the next group of 10 residents selected for this prestigious program. This Residency program, funded by the IMLS, has just completed its inaugural year, with 10 residents working in various organizations in the Washington, DC area. The next round of the NDSR will begin in September …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Kris Nelson, Program Management Specialist at the Library of Congress and Program Coordinator of the National Digital Stewardship Residency. A version of this article was originally published in the Library of Congress weekly staff newspaper The Gazette. The National Digital Stewardship Residency concluded the inaugural year of the …
Posted in: Education and Training, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Digital Preservation 2014 is hosting such a rich variety of presentations that we at the Signal want to preview some of them for you. Today, as part of our Insights Interview series, we present a Q&A with Bradley Daigle, director of Digital Curation Services and digital strategist for Special Collections at the University of Virginia …
Posted in: Insights Interview, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The design and structure of cultural heritage institutions and systems comes with a values and a politics. The values and politics of these infrastructures are often worked out and explored in the work of artists in a range of media. This is just as true of physical structures and spaces as it is of digital …
Posted in: Insights Interview, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Erin Engle
Registration for Digital Preservation 2014 (July 22-24 in Washington, DC) is now open! It’s a packed program (PDF) this year, and unlike in previous years, we have a full-three day program planned for our attendees. DP14 kicks off on July 22 with registration and a continental breakfast at 8:30 am, and will conclude on July …
Posted in: NDSA, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
It’s hard to believe, but this is the tenth year of the annual digital preservation meeting convened by the Library of Congress. Yes, it really has been 10 years. Registration for this year’s annual meeting, Digital Preservation 2014, (July 22-24) will open next week. Until then, I’m pleased to share with you the draft program …
Posted in: NDSA, Outreach and Events