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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group. What is the average lifespan of webpage? Predictably, estimates vary and vary over time. A 1997 special report in Scientific American claimed 44 days. A subsequent 2001 academic study in IEEE Computer suggested 75 days. More recently, in …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. Today’s economic situation draws parallels with the booms and busts of markets past. Policy makers, pundits and economists (we hope) try to learn from the past, to not repeat mistakes or to try and duplicate …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
On October 20 I had the extreme pleasure of being one of the plenary speakers at the 2011 Best Practices Exchange. I rarely have the opportunity to get an hour all to myself to speak about pretty much whatever I want to talk about. One one hand, I wanted the opportunity to extend the topics …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Viewshare
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In early October, I began a postgraduate resident-in-study fellowship in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. I come to LC having received my MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and having worked on digitization …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. The numbers are staggering – an estimated 2.5 billion people in the world have digital cameras! They take perhaps 3.75 billion pictures each year. And we love to share those pictures – hundreds of millions of pictures are uploaded …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
Note: We will occasionally post material to The Signal, with updates, that was previously published only on our website. The following is an article from our “Meeting the Challenge” series, October, 2010. Behind every digital object, there is usually metadata with descriptive information about the object. But the library world is all too aware that …
Posted in: Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. The Future of the Past of the Web was a well-named event hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition, JISC, and the British Library on October 7th. It followed in a sequence of DPC events on …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
Like many of you, I’ve got hundreds (thousands?) of photos. This is one of my favorites: It’s not the most flattering photo in my collection, but it was taken by a good friend back when I was still a crazy grad student, and I crack up every time I see it. Of course, the photo …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Martha Anderson
Guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead and NDSA Content Working Group Co-Chair. As announced earlier this month, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The goal of the survey is to …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration