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Digital Preservation News, August 1-5, 2011

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites – http://blog.photography.si.edu/2011/08/02/five-tips-for-designing-preservable-websites/ The Smithsonian Institution Archives outline five tips for designing websites for digital preservation, including following accessibility guidelines and maintaining stable URLs. Flash more reliable than hard disk? …

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Digital Preservation in a Box: NDSA Outreach

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

“Bob, can you give a presentation to thirty 8th graders on digital preservation.” “Sure. When’s the presentation?” “At 3:00 o’clock today.” “[YIKES!]” If your organization is like most, this scenario happens more regularly than you’d like. Fear not! The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Outreach Working Group set out to provide some solutions during its workshop …

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Digital Preservation News, July 25-29, 2011

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. We will post future updates as they become available every week.  The listing below is from last week. Here is your weekly round-up of digital preservation articles: Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records …

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Multitasking for Digital Preservation News

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. Recently, in one of my library school classes, I was assigned to watch a documentary about how the web affects our ability to learn. One segment tested the efficiency of self-proclaimed “multitaskers,” who often performed …

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I Can Haz Standardz: What Standards Should be in the Digital Preservation Toolbox?

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Audiovisual Specialist, and Carla Miller, Administrative Specialist, at the Library of Congress. The NDSA Standards and Best Practices Working Group is working on a digital preservation standards survey that has the following objectives: • Identify and describe existing digital preservation standards and best practices • Identify …

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Meet My Trustworthy Friend UELMA

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

NCCUSL. If pronounced a certain way (think “nah-kooz-ull”) it sounds like the latest toy fad. But get used to the acronym because the organization behind it is responsible for one of the most important pieces of digital preservation legislation in the past ten years. NCCUSL stands for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State …

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How Do You Find Training on Digital Preservation?

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Barrett Jones, Program Specialist for the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education initiative at the Library. Right now as I type this post, there is a two-hour Introduction to Digital Preservation online course available from the State Library of North Carolina Digital Information Management Program. On July 25th there’s …