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Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In Carl Fleischhauer’s recent four-part blog series, he discussed the challenges of, and different approaches to, capturing both the informational and the artifactual aspects of physical books and photographic negatives when reproducing these records in digital …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
Events associated with the Kennedy assassination offer a compelling case study regarding obsolete data formats and digital preservation. Shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy on this day 48 years ago, an organization turned to the latest computer technology in an effort to study the tragedy. From November 26 through December 3, 1963, the National …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by David Brunton, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. I have heard the National Digital Newspaper Program jokingly described as “putting breaking new online, within 200 years.” In some ways, it’s a fitting tag line: the most current newspaper pages released …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
While most of us love a good movie about lawyers and the law, few of us read actual legal documents for fun. Well, I did say FEW of us… Earlier this summer I wrote a post about the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, a uniform law that will establish digital preservation protections for “official” state …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Steve McCollum, Digital Media Project Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. Central to any digital preservation strategy is making sure that the stuff you have is the right stuff. To that end, the Library of Congress endeavors to make sure that digital image files delivered by contractors in a …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. The United States national elections are a year away, but the Library of Congress is already busy archiving presidential campaign websites and preparing to archive House and Senate campaign sites and more starting in March 2012. This actually isn’t the earliest we’ve …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Susan Manus
Many of our readers are (hopefully) familiar with the NDSA , a large-scale collaboration of many organizations working together, pooling time and talents to create solutions for long term preservation of digital materials. The effort is growing by leaps and bounds – as a matter of fact, we’ve now reached a milestone – 100 organizations! …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Sharon M. Leon, Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and Associate Professor at George Mason University. Historians are not the most likely candidates to design and develop an open source web publishing platform. But, as historians working at in the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This article is reprinted by request from the digitalpreservation.gov website. While the saying “New Zealand is far from everywhere” may be true, distance is not an issue regarding its digital cultural collections and how efficiently the National Library of New Zealand makes them available over the Internet. For a small country (population approximately 4,393,500 as …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources