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Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post from Sarah Osborne Bender, Director of the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. I graduated from library school in 2001, just months after Wikipedia was launched. So as a freshly minted information professional, it is no surprise that I fell …
Posted in: At the Museum, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Open Access, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Andrea Goethals, Digital Preservation and Repository Manager at Harvard Library. It’s St. Patrick’s Day, so I wanted to have a catchy Irish saying for the title but, believe it or not, Irish sayings about web archiving or even the web are hard to find. I did find some …
Posted in: Digital Content, Web Archiving
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Alice Sara Prael. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library began the “Access to Legacy” project in 2007 with the goal to digitize, describe, and permanently retain millions of presidential documents, photographs, and audiovisual recordings. Since the project began the Library has accumulated over 150 terabytes of data. With …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The following is a guest post by Kathryn Gronsbell, Digital Asset Manager, Carnegie Hall; Shira Peltzman, Digital Archivist, UCLA Library; Ashley Blewer, Applications Developer, NYPL; and Rebecca Fraimow, Archivist and AAPB NDSR Program Coordinator, WGBH. The intersection of digital preservation and audiovisual archiving has reached a tipping point. As the media production and use landscape …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Abbey Potter
Do you have fifteen minutes to tell the National Digital Stewardship Alliance about your organization’s web archiving activities? If the answer is yes, please contribute to the NDSA Web Archiving Survey. By filling out this short survey, your institution will be part of a multi-year project to track the evolution of web archiving programs in …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA, Publications and Resources, Web Archiving
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The NDSA Infrastructure Working Group’s goals are to identify and share emerging practices around the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities supporting the long term preservation of digital content. One of the ways the IWG strives to achieve their goals is to collaboratively develop …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Abbey Potter
Newspapers are some of the most-used collections at libraries. They have been carefully selected and preserved and represent what is often referred to as “the first draft of history.” Digitized historical newspapers provide broad and rich access to a community’s past, enabling new kinds of inquiry and research. However, these kinds of resources are at …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Web Archiving
Posted by: Abbey Potter
The news is often called the “first draft of history” and preserved newspapers are some of the most used collections in libraries. The Internet and other digital technologies have altered the news landscape. There have been numerous stories about the demise of the newspaper and disruption at traditional media outlets. We’ve seen more than a …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Abbey Potter
Imagine you’re a legal scholar and you’re examining the U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the late nineties to mid-two thousands and you want to understand what resources were consulted to support official opinions. A study in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology indicates you would find that only half of the nearly 555 URL …
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