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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Skimpy. Sparse. Sporadic. I used these words a few years ago to generalize the state of tools, services and other technology for digital stewardship. Until recently, an institution that wanted to actively manage its digital content over the long term had one basic option: build an infrastructure from scratch. Much has changed over the last …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I’m excited to offer this fourth interview for Insights, an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved with projects related to preservation, access and stewardship of digital …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Megan Forbes, Manager of Collection Information and Access, Museum of the Moving Image. Several weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Digital Library Federation’s 2011 Fall Forum, where I participated in a panel about data management, digital curation and digital preservation. I felt a bit like …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Events associated with the Kennedy assassination offer a compelling case study regarding obsolete data formats and digital preservation. Shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy on this day 48 years ago, an organization turned to the latest computer technology in an effort to study the tragedy. From November 26 through December 3, 1963, the National …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Kate Zwaard, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Library of Congress and its partners continue to work on ways to help users communicate and evaluate trustworthiness of the electronic material they are accessing. The risk is higher for some …
Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Sharon M. Leon, Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and Associate Professor at George Mason University. Historians are not the most likely candidates to design and develop an open source web publishing platform. But, as historians working at in the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post from Kathleen Kenney, Digitization Specialist, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina. The State Library of North Carolina, in collaboration with the North Carolina State Archives, has been archiving North Carolina state agency web sites since 2005 and social media since 2009. Since then, we have crawled over …
Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. This is the final blog on the topic of informational and artifactual values in the digitization of books (and other documents) and photographic negatives and transparencies. Here are links to the book-related blogs: Part 1 and Part 2. Part …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. What does it mean to digitize a photographic negative? My previous pair of blogs discussed digitizing books (and other textual materials), exploring the ways that the process captures informational and artifactual aspects of the original item. The short version …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure