A few month’s ago, we announced the release of States of Sustainability: A Review of State Projects funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) (PDF), a report written by Christopher A. Lee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that provides a review of the Preserving State Government Information …
Advertisers and economists talk about a concept known as the value proposition. It refers to what makes a product or service valuable to others. In the context of how preserving institutions communicate, the value proposition bluntly asks: why should anyone pay attention to what an organization has to say? When we talk about digital preservation, …
Registration is now open for DigitalPreservation 2012, which will take place July 24-26. This is the latest in a series of meetings the Library of Congress has held since 2005 as a forum for sharing information about digital stewardship concepts, tools and best practices. The meeting is in two parts. Both will be held as …
I was hoping to have more to contribute to an after-the-fact blog post on the 2012 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , which took place last week here in Washington, DC. But because I was on the conference organizing team, I spent most of the time either behind the registration desk answering questions, or running around …
The following is a guest post by Emily Reynolds, 2012 Junior Fellow. Last week, the Library of Congress Archives Forum hosted a talk by Kate Theimer of the popular blog ArchivesNext. Theimer is a prominent voice in the archival community, frequently writing and speaking about archival advocacy issues as well as the challenges and opportunities …
We recently celebrated The Signal’s first birthday, and we’re thrilled there are over 10,000 followers of our NDIIPP Twitter account. Social media has become more and more a mass means of communication. We started by dipping our toes in the facebook pool and then swimming laps in the Twitter stream. And a year ago, we …
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group awards action team is excited to announce the first set of projects, individuals, and organizations to receive NDSA Innovation Awards. Almost a year ago, the NDSA Innovation Working group announced the development of a series of awards to recognize innovative work in digital preservation. Several months ago we …
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group. This is the second part of a two-post recap of the “Harvesting and Preserving the Future Web” workshop at the recent International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly. The session was divided into three topics: Capture: challenges in acquiring …
The following is a guest post by Kevin Marcou, a second-year student in the School of Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America and a Crowley Company contract worker at the Library of Congress. Recently, while clearing out a backpack, I found a 3.5” floppy disk dating from high school. Of course, I …
