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Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead and Co-Chair of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group A researcher, a crawl engineer, a program manager and a curator walk into a national library… sounds like the start to a great joke, doesn’t it? But it actually …
Posted in: Digital Content, 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. “If you want to do important work, you have to work on an important problem.” With these words, Betsy Humphreys, Deputy Director of the National Library of Medicine, effectively …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
While we officially welcomed Spring last month, April seems to be the unofficial start to conference season. This week, NDIIPP staff are busy talking about the NDSA’s National Agenda for Digital Stewardship and NDIIPP’s personal digital archiving guidance at TLA’s Digital Libraries Roundtable on Friday, April 11 and at Personal Digital Archiving 2014 on April …
Posted in: NDSA, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The Texas Library Association Annual Conference started earlier this week, and I’ll be heading out there on Friday April 11 to participate in an interactive session with the TLA’s Digital Libraries Roundtable on the National Digital Stewardship Alliance and some of NDIIPP’s initiatives related to Personal Digital Archiving. Our parents and grandparents saved hand-written diaries, …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The fifth annual Personal Digital Archiving conference is on April 10-11 and you can still register online until tomorrow, April 1. This conference attracts a variety of information-technology professionals with a range of digital-preservation interests, mainly oriented toward the needs of individuals rather than the digital collections of cultural institutions. Topics include – but are …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Kim Schroeder, a lecturer at the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science. Several years ago before the glory of the annual NDSA conference, professionals across America were seeking more digital curation literature and professional contacts. Basic questions like ‘what is the first step in digital …
Posted in: Education and Training, NDSA, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Erin Engle
Personal Digital Archiving 2014 will be held at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 10-11, 2014. This is THE conference that raises awareness among individuals, public institutions and private companies engaged in the creation, preservation and ongoing use of personal digital content. A key overarching topic will be how libraries, archives and other …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
On Sunday, March 2, I had the opportunity to attend an OpenNews Hack Day event at the Newseum in Washington DC, sponsored by Knight-mozilla OpenNews, PopUp Archive, and the Newseum. The event was held in conjunction with the NICAR (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting) conference on working with datasets and developing interactive applications in journalism. …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Nicole Scalessa, IT manager at The Library Company of Philadelphia, an NDSA member. Digital stewardship is a prime topic for small institutions trying to keep pace with the increasing demands for digital content. The Library Company of Philadelphia, a special collections library founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration