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Posted by: Susan Manus
In anticipation of the Museum Computer Network conference next week in Seattle, I’ve been giving some extra thought lately to museum community involvement in digital preservation. We (the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, that is) work with many partners from a range of industries, and in the last couple of years this has …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. Is a U.S. Government website or part of a site you use or know about at risk of disappearing? Is there a website related to the 2012 U.S. Elections that you think should be preserved? Always dreamed of contributing to a collaborative …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Carla Miller, Administrative Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. This is Part Two of a post reporting on the joint meeting on March 23, 2012 of both the Still Image and Audio Visual Working Groups of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative hosted at the National Archives …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The NDSA Content Working Group, one of the five working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance focuses on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Carla Miller, Administrative Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. On March 23, 2012, the Still Image and Audio Visual Working Groups of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) held a joint meeting hosted at the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) College Park campus. This is …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Insights Interview series is an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved in projects related to preservation, access, and stewardship of digital information. In …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. I continue to be reminded that we’re extremely lucky in the digital preservation community to have a wide range of partners and collaborators from a diverse set of organizations to work with, both in the Unites States and globally. With web archiving …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Insights Interview series is an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved in projects related to preservation, access, and stewardship of digital information. In …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. A vexing property of digital objects is the difficulties they pose to ensuring their ongoing authenticity and stability. Files can become corrupted by use, bits can rot even when unused, and during transfer the parts essential …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration