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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Given the popularity of 71 Digital Portals to State History from last month–we got many comments with great additions to that list–I thought it would be useful to extend the conversation to the local level. Unlike for the earlier post, we did not have the services of an intern to do the research, so the starting …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
A recent NDIIPP intern, Ingrid Jernudd, did some research into current web resources that provide digital access to a broad array of primary source materials at the state level. She prepared a list of sites that billed themselves as general-interest portals to historical resources. Although the list is likely incomplete, I was surprised she found …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. In 2003, we began drafting descriptions of digital formats, intended to support the Library’s preservation planning. Knowing that our descriptions would be of general interest, and wishing to work cooperatively with emerging format registries (e.g., the Unified Digital Format …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Madeline Sheldon, a 2013 Junior Fellow with NDIIPP. My major project as a Library of Congress Junior Fellow was to identify and analyze cultural heritage institution digital preservation policies. This project was an update and extension of work done in 2011 by another Junior Fellow, Kristen Snawder. My full …
Posted in: Publications and Resources
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
With 2012 safely behind us, let us praise some of the best things that happened last year in digital preservation. This is something of a tradition for us, as we have previously run down a list for 2011 and 2010. I cast a wide net and mustered my objectivity in in picking activities with the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting Steps in a Digital Preservation Workflow as part of the American Library Association/Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Online Learning program. I talked about planning and building a staged process for preserving digital information in a cultural heritage context. Part of what I covered relates to ideas …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
It’s time to take stock of the most memorable digital preservation happenings of 2011. This is a challenge, since many organizations around the world have done fine work and a full accounting would be long. Really, really web-unfriendly long. Hence the virtue of the top 10 trope: brevity makes up for ruthless exclusion. In that …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by David Brunton, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. I have heard the National Digital Newspaper Program jokingly described as “putting breaking new online, within 200 years.” In some ways, it’s a fitting tag line: the most current newspaper pages released …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Publications and Resources