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Posted by: Martha Anderson
This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. Some of you may have heard the recent news that The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program, including their website, was to be terminated on January 15 due to a loss of funding. This impending loss grabbed the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The January 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation newsletter is now available (PDF). In this issue: *A review of the Digital Formats Sustainability website and news about the addition of 35 geospatial formats to the site *Digital stewards are invited to comment on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI on public …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
Why should you care if a resource is authentic? Well, you’d care if you were a presidential candidate and an altered photograph contributed in a way to your ultimate loss. You might also care if you were a NASA scientist and a forgery introduced doubt about one of your agency’s most stellar historic achievements. Most …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Digital Antiquities is a 15-minute science-fiction film that considers the social impact of data recovery in the not-too-distant future. Its summary states, “By 2036, data loss has become a thing of the past. All digital media is instantly uploaded to the internet and permanently stored in the cloud, safely backed-up on servers scattered around the …
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Susan Manus
The digital preservation-related video show, that is. The set of newly released videos from the Belgian project “Archipel” are the latest digital preservation videos to hit the scene. The Archipel project is a recent collaboration by organizations in Belgium, to study digitization and digital preservation of cultural heritage materials. Even though these videos are basically …
Posted in: Digital Content, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience digital collections. It was launched a few months ago and it has been featured …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure, Viewshare
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
(NOTE: This is an updated article from our digitalpreservation.gov website originally written by Mike Ashenfelder.) As we discussed in an earlier post, the landscape is changing for the better in terms of the appearance of open source tools to support digital preservation and access. NDIIPP has contributed by developing tools to transfer large quantities of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure, Videos and Podcasts