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Posted by: Trevor Owens
The NDSA levels of digital preservation are useful in providing a high-level, at-a-glance overview of tiered guidance for planning for digital preservation. One of the most common requests received by the NDSA group working on this is that we provide more in-depth information on the issues discussed in each cell. To that end, we are …
Posted in: NDSA, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
And if so, why would you ever want to? About a year ago the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections announced a rather exciting project, to digitize the data tapes from the Explorer I satellite mission. My first thought: the data on these tapes is likely digital to begin with, so there’s not really something …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
Open source software is playing an important role in digital stewardship. In an effort to better understand the role open source software is playing, the NDSA infrastructure working group is reaching out to folks working on a range of open source projects. Our goal is to develop a better understanding of their work and how they are …
Posted in: Insights Interview, NDSA, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
A single photograph in a personal collection or archive might be represented by any number of derivative files of varying sizes, in varying formats, all with different sets of embedded metadata. At the bit level, all of the variations of the photograph are unique. However, in practice, a particular individual or organization might just be …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is a guest post from Raegan Swanson, Archivist with Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute. Reagan contacted members of the NDSA group working on the levels of digital preservation with her thoughts and comments and we were excited to offer her the opportunity to share her comments on the utility of the levels with a broader audience here on …
Posted in: NDSA, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’ve talked about Matthew Kirschenbaum’s work in a range of posts on digital objects here on The Signal. It seemed like it would be valuable to delve deeper into some of those discussions here in an interview. If you are unfamiliar, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is a guest post from Megan Phillips, NARA’s Electronic Records Lifecycle Coordinator and an elected member of the NDSA coordinating committee and Andrea Goethals, Harvard Library’s Manager of Digital Preservation and Repository Services and co-chair of the NDSA Standards and Practices Working Group. As part of the effort to publicize the NDSA Levels of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
A few months back several members of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance’s Levels of Digital Preservation team presented a short paper at Archiving 2013, The NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation: An Explanation and Uses. While the Levels of Digital Preservation will continue to be refined and improved we are thrilled to report that they are …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following interview is a guest post from Karen Cariani, Director of the WGBH Media Library and Archives at WGBH Educational Foundation and Co-Chair for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Infrastructure Working Group. Open source software is playing an important role in digital stewardship. In an effort to better understand the role open source software is …
Posted in: Insights Interview, NDSA, Tools and Infrastructure