The February 2013 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201302.pdf In this issue: Digital Preservation Top Ten of 2012 Scanning: DIY or Outsource? Incorporating History in Digital Maps Is JPEG-2000 A Preservation Risk? The Power of Digital Oral History Viewshare Highlights Interviews with Peter Murray and Arfon Smith Upcoming …
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead While organizations have been archiving the web since the mid-1990s, it’s only in the last few years that there’s been a surge in web archivists speaking out about issues they encounter, uses of archives, and innovations in tools and …
The January 2013 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201301.pdf In this issue: Why does digital preservation matter? Learn about some key dates in the history of digitizing texts. A call to action to preserve science discourse on the Web. Find out what resolution to scan at when using your personal scanner. …
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 …
