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Posted by: Susan Manus
The Omeka project team is coming up with some good solutions for building an open source community. Omeka, an open source web publishing platform for cultural heritage collections, was developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. (An overview of Omeka is given in a previous blog post …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post from Mike Burke from the U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. The U.S. Copyright Office has a comprehensive set of records about books, periodicals, music, motion pictures and other works that were registered with the Office between 1870 and 1977. The records include transfers and assignments of rights …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I’m excited to offer this fourth interview for Insights, an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved with projects related to preservation, access and stewardship of digital …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. A previous post suggested how the digital environment within computer programs and systems creates an artifactual element to born-digital records. An analog equivalent to this idea can be found in the popular Thomas Jefferson’s Library exhibit …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
While clearing out some personal clutter recently, I came across an old CD-ROM, published in 1989, that I always assumed was of great cultural value. Of course, when I tried to play it I got nothing but error messages and I set about finding a way to make it work. The CD-ROM is the Electronic …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. What are the access requirements for digital cultural heritage collections? This was one of the questions that the National Digital Stewardship Alliance started exploring earlier this year. Different access requirements result in very different kinds of preservation storage …
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure