The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. In part 1 of this series, I sketched the background of the Library of Congress format sustainability Web site. This month we are pleased to announce the availability of 35 descriptions of digital geospatial formats and two brief accompanying …
The December 2011 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available (PDF). In this issue: *Information about how the Library of Congress is archiving the 2012 Election campaign websites *Updates from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards and Outreach Working Groups *An article about saving the record of American business *A recent meeting discussed …
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. The Library has presented information about digital formats since 2004, intended to support preservation planning in our institution and in our sister archives. This is, of course, an open-ended activity: new formats come along with some regularity and, in …
The following is a guest post from Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead and National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group Co-Chair In November 2010, the Library of Congress convened a Citizen Journalism workshop that brought together researchers, bloggers, journalists, academics and archivists to address selection and preservation issues for hyper-local community news on the …
It barely needs to be said that video is a great way to get ideas across in a succinct and entertaining manner. But with the increased acceleration of broadband internet adoption, videos are increasingly becoming a primary information source (and search engines are recognizing this). The digital preservation community is only beginning to get into …
While most of us love a good movie about lawyers and the law, few of us read actual legal documents for fun. Well, I did say FEW of us… Earlier this summer I wrote a post about the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, a uniform law that will establish digital preservation protections for “official” state …
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 …
Like many of you, I’ve got hundreds (thousands?) of photos. This is one of my favorites: It’s not the most flattering photo in my collection, but it was taken by a good friend back when I was still a crazy grad student, and I crack up every time I see it. Of course, the photo …
The October 2011 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201110.pdf In this issue: *Personal Digital Archiving talked about at the National Book Festival and on our blog, “The Signal” *More from our ABCs of Digital Preservation series on “The Signal” – B is for Bit Preservation and C is for Collections *A …
