The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. In Part 1 of this series, we examined how a simple scanner was built and showed how the manufacturer determined their claimed “resolution.” We noted that the International Standards Organization calls this the “sampling rate” and defines resolution differently. …
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Even though I’m relatively new to the professional library world, I’ve long known that digital preservation on a personal level is a daunting task laced with threats of doom. It requires great amounts of time, energy and …
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress I love dumb magazines. Love ‘em. The more photoshopped the front cover, the more vapid the articles, the more stereotypical the content, the more I love them. In college, while I was spelling woman with a y …
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. In a previous post I reviewed my process for end-of-the-year archiving of my picture and personal files onto two external hard disk drives. This year I went an extra step – I added all the files saved in my CD-ROM …
As the NDIIPP program name indicates, our mission is focused on digital preservation. That is, preserving material once it’s in digital form. And by our own definition, digital preservation is “the active management of digital content over time to ensure ongoing access.” There is also a separate, but related, concept, addressed by the question, “How …
Here in the Library’s digital preservation program, we have become more and more active in the realm of personal digital archiving (and see our related blog posts on the subject here). So it’s of great interest to us when we hear about other such activities happening in libraries around the country. For example, the Kansas …
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. With the large size and amount of my personal digital archives, my archiving problem may be a bit extreme, but I think a description of my archiving system may be helpful to many people who want to save and …
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. The numbers are staggering – an estimated 2.5 billion people in the world have digital cameras! They take perhaps 3.75 billion pictures each year. And we love to share those pictures – hundreds of millions of pictures are uploaded …
When was the last time you wrote a letter, on paper? Other than my note-to-self stickies (my desk usually has a bunch), or greeting cards, I personally have not written much of substance, just on paper, in a long time. These days, of course, we are engulfed in the digital versions of note writing – …
