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Posted by: Susan Manus
This announcement is from the Library’s Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program. There is only a short time left to apply for the National Digital Stewardship Residency program. The deadline is April 5th, 2013! Interested applicants can apply to the program on the USA Jobs website. The NDSR is a new field experience program developed …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Note: there will be photographs of puppies throughout this post. TS Eliot wasn’t wrong. The upcoming April is the cruelest month. The days are grey and cold, the nights are rainy and windy, the temperature fluctuates wildly, and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. In a recent meeting, some colleagues and I discussed the age in which individuals should start understanding the basics of digital preservation. I suggested that, with children creating digital files earlier and earlier, it should be taught …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. In Part 1 of this series, we examined how a simple scanner was built and showed how the manufacturer determined their claimed “resolution.” We noted that the International Standards Organization calls this the “sampling rate” and defines resolution differently. …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Even though I’m relatively new to the professional library world, I’ve long known that digital preservation on a personal level is a daunting task laced with threats of doom. It requires great amounts of time, energy and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress I love dumb magazines. Love ‘em. The more photoshopped the front cover, the more vapid the articles, the more stereotypical the content, the more I love them. In college, while I was spelling woman with a y …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Ali Fazal, Program Management Assistant for NDSR at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library Services are pleased to announce the official open call for applications for the first National Digital Stewardship Residency. From today until April 5, 2013, applicants …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
The February 2013 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201302.pdf In this issue: Digital Preservation Top Ten of 2012 Scanning: DIY or Outsource? Incorporating History in Digital Maps Is JPEG-2000 A Preservation Risk? The Power of Digital Oral History Viewshare Highlights Interviews with Peter Murray and Arfon Smith Upcoming …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. Of all the impediments to preservation, disasters fill my heart with the most dread. From the destruction of 60 percent of the Ciambue Crucifix in the 1966 flood of the Arno river, to the crashing of a …
Posted in: Digital Content