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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Selection–what to keep, how to keep it, and how long to keep it–quickly comes up in connection with stewardship of digital content. Consider two prevalent concepts at opposite extremes. One holds that we are failing to save enough digital content, a position taken in a recent article in the Economist, History flushed: The digital age …
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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by George Alter, Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Research data produced by federally funded scientific projects should be freely available to the wider research community and the public at large. That simple statement should not be controversial, especially as federal research funding agencies increasingly require …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Barbara Taranto, Digital Program Director at New York Public Library. In this installment of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Insights interview series, I interview lighting designer Beverly Emmons. Emmons has designed for Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, dance and opera both in the U.S. and abroad. For more background …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Like a comedian from yesteryear, email gets no respect. What it does get is plenty of ire. I’m always hearing about how email is “out of control” and that we waste too much time dealing with it. Or that we don’t have enough time to deal with it. One writer proclaims 10 Reasons I Don’t …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, a Digital Archivist and Abbey Potter, a Program Officer in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. When historians look back on late 20th and early 21st century science they will undoubtedly be interested in understanding how the web has facilitated, altered and otherwise shifted …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
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: 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