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Posted by: Susan Manus
The following 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. After a strange winter in Washington, D.C., of no snow and warm temperatures, and a strange spring of early blossoms and drought, I woke up to something rare–a …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Carla Miller, Administrative Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. This is Part Two of a post reporting on the joint meeting on March 23, 2012 of both the Still Image and Audio Visual Working Groups of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative hosted at the National Archives …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The NDSA Content Working Group, one of the five working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance focuses on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. Librarians are often accused of talking in a language that can be difficult for non-librarians to understand. While jargon is a part of constructing professional identity, it becomes problematic when that jargonizing hinders how librarians interface …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Carla Miller, Administrative Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. On March 23, 2012, the Still Image and Audio Visual Working Groups of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) held a joint meeting hosted at the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) College Park campus. This is …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Insights Interview series is an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved in projects related to preservation, access, and stewardship of digital information. In …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview, NDSA, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. I continue to be reminded that we’re extremely lucky in the digital preservation community to have a wide range of partners and collaborators from a diverse set of organizations to work with, both in the Unites States and globally. With web archiving …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
During the past almost-year of our existence, The Signal has covered a lot of territory, topic-wise. But in the midst of all the activity required to keep this very active blog going, it’s easy for us to get lost in the day-to-day. So, I think it’s a good idea once in awhile to pause and …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group. What is the value of a broken link? For understandable reasons, many would say, “not much.” While the destination-unaware nature of hyperlinks has facilitated the decentralized growth of the web, it has also greatly contributed to the perceived …
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