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Content Creator Data Tool Released by NDIIPP Partner

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. In mid-October, BMS/Chace of Nashville, Tennessee, released the “first generation version” of a software tool to support the collection of metadata for the multi-track, multi-session sound recordings being produced in the music industry today.  The Metadata for Recorded Sound …

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F is for Forensics

Posted by: Martha Anderson

This post is part of a continuing series of alphabetically titled digital preservation topics. A few months ago, I met a special collections librarian at a conference. I asked if her library was receiving digital materials in their acquisitions.  She said, “Yes, but we are not doing anything with them at this time.”  I suggested …

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Digital Preservation and the 1963 Kennedy Assassination Study

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 …

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Have You Got The Right Stuff? Or, Is Your Digital Content Sustainable?

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Steve McCollum, Digital Media Project Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. Central to any digital preservation strategy is making sure that the stuff you have is the right stuff.  To that end, the Library of Congress endeavors to make sure that digital image files delivered by contractors in a …

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It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like… Election Archiving Season!

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. The United States national elections are a year away, but the Library of Congress is already busy archiving presidential campaign websites and preparing to archive House and Senate campaign sites and more starting in March 2012. This actually isn’t the earliest we’ve …

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Hashing Out Digital Trust

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 …

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Growing Open Source Communities: Omeka, End Users, Designers and Developers

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 …

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From Records to Data: It’s Not Just About Collections Any More

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

On October 20 I had the extreme pleasure of being one of the plenary speakers at the 2011 Best Practices Exchange.  I rarely have the opportunity to get an hour all to myself to speak about pretty much whatever I want to talk about. One one hand, I wanted the opportunity to extend the topics …