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Archivists Bridge the Digital Divide at SAA 2013

Posted by: Erin Engle

We’re big fans and proponents of face-to-face meetings and conferences a means to explore best practices and share lessons learned within and outside of the digital stewardship community. We can’t attend every event, so that’s why I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to go to the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, August …

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Content Matters Interview: A Third Man for Musical Preservation

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

In this installment of the Content Matters interview series of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group we’re featuring an interview with Ben Blackwell, the “psychedelic stooge” at  Third Man Records. Third Man’s owner, musician Jack White, has a deep and abiding interest in musical anthropology in all its forms, while being strongly forward-thinking …

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3 Things to Change the World for Personal Digital Archiving

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

I am relentlessly optimistic about the future of personal digital archiving. There is simply too much at stake, in my mind, to feel anything but hopeful. Let’s face it, though: it’s hard. A well-regarded expert who has spent years studying personal digital habits tells me that people just won’t invest time and effort to preserve …

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Picturing the Democratization of Digital Stewardship

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

When we first started promoting personal archiving on our website a couple of years ago, the topics was fairly new. The efforts of major institutions to preserve and make available digital content were well-known, of course, but the idea of doing something similar for personal material was embryonic. Since then, attention to what can be …

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I Made Metadata Fun: A True Story

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Madeline Sheldon, Junior Fellow with NDIIPP. Most of you who follow this blog have an interest in digital preservation and will already be familiar with the following information. This particular post is more for the individuals who are just beginning to understand the implications of their digital footprint …

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10 Resources for Community Digital Archives

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

We write frequently on this blog about the value of personal digital archiving–empowering people to pass on digital memories to their families and others. We’ve always seen public libraries as key allies in promoting personal archiving, and have highlighted libraries that undertake outreach and training in this area. There is a related role for public libraries and …

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What People Are Asking About Personal Digital Archiving: part 1

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

During Preservation Week 2013, I gave a webinar about personal digital archiving. Over 600 people participated and, during the post-presentation question section, 91 people submitted questions online. I had time to answer about a dozen or so. After the webinar, the hosts from the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services sent me the complete …

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Digital Preservation for the People!

Posted by: Erin Engle

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council, National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group co-chair and a former Fellow in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to teach a personal digital archiving workshop at the …