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Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Barrie Howard, Program Management Coordinator, NDIIPP. This post is the third in a short series about U.S. government grant programs that have funded digital preservation since the beginning of the new millennium. This series focuses on federal agencies other than The Library of Congress, such as the National …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. I am attending the annual conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) in Frankfurt, Germany, hosted by the Hessischer Rundfunk (the public broadcasting unit for the German state of Hesse), the German public broadcasting archive, …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Martha Anderson
Continuing the alphabetical series of digital preservation topics. Recently one of our California partners commented on the irony of the earthquakes occurring in Colorado and Maryland, two partner sites in areas not prone to earthquakes. This practice of keeping copies of digital collections in geographically diverse areas is one technique employed for bit preservation. Fortunately …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
“The Library of Congress,” a 20-minute motion picture from the 1940s, is not only a loving homage to the Library, rich with Hollywood production values, but it is also associated with a few significant nodes in history: World War II, the creation of the Library’s motion picture archives and the population of cyberspace with cultural …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
I admit it: I’ve been prone to using the terms “digital preservation,” “digital curation” and “digital stewardship” interchangeably without thinking too hard about their origins or subtle differences. Where do these different terms come from and what do they imply? Let’s briefly explore the slightly different (though often overlapping) approaches of preservationistas, curators and stewards. …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. Librarians at University of Minnesota Make an Impact with Data Management Program http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891540-264/librarians_at_university_of_minnesota.html.csp The library has created a program called Managing Your Data, which guides researchers in the creation of data management plans. Inspired by …
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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. UNT receives more than $800,000 dollars in funding to investigate needs in archiving research data http://untsystem.unt.edu/news/2011/August/11-08-09-arch-res-data.htm The first grant of $624,663 from IMLS is for a three-year project to create four graduate-level courses in digital …
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Posted by: Martha Anderson
An abecedarian is one who is learning the fundamentals of something, as in the alphabet, or in this case, digital preservation. Today I am beginning a series that will explore the topic of digital preservation in an alphabetical way. Each post will use a word or phrase as a device to explore a concept and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. On “The Signal,” we’ve talked about different aspects of digital preservation – like here and here – and we’ve talked about geospatial information and digital mapping. In this post, I’d like to talk about the resource NDIIPP is helping to develop (and the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources