(NOTE: This is a reprinted and updated article from our digitalpreservation.gov website.) The motion picture industry is rapidly changing from film to digital media and within the next decade most movies will be shot, edited, distributed and projected digitally. Yet even as the industry embraces new technology, they may not be doing enough to archive …
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. In part 1 of this series, I sketched the background of the Library of Congress format sustainability Web site. This month we are pleased to announce the availability of 35 descriptions of digital geospatial formats and two brief accompanying …
The December 2011 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available (PDF). In this issue: *Information about how the Library of Congress is archiving the 2012 Election campaign websites *Updates from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards and Outreach Working Groups *An article about saving the record of American business *A recent meeting discussed …
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. The Library has presented information about digital formats since 2004, intended to support preservation planning in our institution and in our sister archives. This is, of course, an open-ended activity: new formats come along with some regularity and, in …
While clearing out some personal clutter recently, I came across an old CD-ROM, published in 1989, that I always assumed was of great cultural value. Of course, when I tried to play it I got nothing but error messages and I set about finding a way to make it work. The CD-ROM is the Electronic …
The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I’m the co-chair of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards Working Group along with Andrea Goethals of Harvard University. Over the past year, the working group has been engaged in a project to identify, describe and …
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 …
While most of us love a good movie about lawyers and the law, few of us read actual legal documents for fun. Well, I did say FEW of us… Earlier this summer I wrote a post about the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, a uniform law that will establish digital preservation protections for “official” state …
This article is reprinted by request from the digitalpreservation.gov website. While the saying “New Zealand is far from everywhere” may be true, distance is not an issue regarding its digital cultural collections and how efficiently the National Library of New Zealand makes them available over the Internet. For a small country (population approximately 4,393,500 as …
