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The February 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is Now Available

Posted by: Erin Engle

The February 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201202.pdf In this issue: *The Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2011 *Thoughts and reflections on the Science 2012 conference *Update about the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act *Read about what  projects the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group and the Infrastructure …

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Designing Preservable Websites, Redux

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group at the Library of Congress. As much as we can do to preserve archived websites once we have them, the challenges we encounter are always already determined by how those websites were originally constructed. In the interest of …

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There are More Tools for Digital Curation Than You Might Think

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

On January 6, 2012, I had the opportunity to attend CurateGear, an interactive, day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This meeting did many things right. It introduced attendees to the wide spectrum of digital curation activities, from appraisal to ingest to auditing …

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Bit By Bit: Recent Projects on Digital Forensics for Collecting Institutions

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

This is a guest post by Bradley Daigle, Director of Digital Curation Services and Digital Strategist for Special Collections, University of Virginia; Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland; and Christopher (Cal) Lee, Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library …

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What Does Innovation Look Like? The NDSA Innovation Working Group Wants to Know

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post from Micah Beck, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, and Jane Mandelbaum, Trevor Owens and Jefferson Bailey in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. What important big ideas are just around the corner in digital stewardship? What …

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Partly Cloudy: Trends in Distributed and Remote Preservation Storage–More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. As discussed in a previous post, the NDSA Infrastructure Working Group recently conducted an extensive survey of NDSA member preservation storage systems. While the survey examined a wide range of preservation storage trends and activities, it …

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Digging into a Slice of Digital History

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

This is a guest post by Ellen O’Donnell, Technical Writer, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, who recently spent a year on detail in OSI. When shepherd Christopher Day made a routine check of his boss’s flock, he noticed that a sheep was missing. Word got around town. An alert policeman spotted a suspicious …

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The World Digital Library: A Truly International Effort

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

In November of 2011 I had the pleasure of attending the annual World Digital Library partner’s meeting in Munich, Germany, hosted by the Bavarian State Library. This year’s meeting was a highly productive series of working sessions, highlighting the exceptional progress of the initiative and the current and future efforts of the partner institutions in …