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Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is a guest post from Julia Fernandez, this year’s NDIIPP Junior Fellow. Julia has a background in American studies and working with folklife institutions and worked on a range of projects leading up to CurateCamp Digital Culture in July. This is part of a series of interviews Julia conducted to better understand the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is a guest post from David Gibson, a moving image technician in the Library of Congress. He was previously interviewed about the Library of Congress video games collection. The discovery of that which has been lost or previously unattainable is one of the driving forces behind the archival profession and one of the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
Back in late June I attended the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) meeting here in DC. NGAC is a Federal Advisory Committee sponsored by the Department of the Interior under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The committee is composed of (mostly) non-federal representatives from all sectors of the geospatial community and features very high profile …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
XFR STN (“Transfer Station”) is a grass-roots digitization and digital-preservation project that arose as a response from the New York arts community to rescue creative works off of aging or obsolete audiovisual formats and media. The digital files are stored by the Library of Congress’s NDIIPP partner the Internet Archive and accessible for free online. At the …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Web Archiving Service Manager for Stanford University Libraries. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine has been mentioned in several news articles within the last week (see here, here and here) for having archived a since-deleted blog post from a Ukrainian separatist leader touting his shooting down a …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is a guest post from Julia Fernandez, this year’s NDIIPP Junior Fellow. Julia has a background in American studies and working with folklife institutions and is working on a range of projects related to CurateCamp Digital Culture. This is part of an ongoing series of interviews Julia is conducting to better understand the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview
Posted by: Susan Manus
Continuing with our series of blog posts devoted to the upcoming Digital Preservation 2014 conference, the following interview features a preview of the panel session entitled “Research Data and Curation” with panel members Inna Kouper (Data to Insight Center at Indiana University), Elizabeth Yakel (University of Michigan School of Information) and Ixchel Faniel (OCLC Research). Susan: …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Partner Specialist at Internet Archive and co-chair of the NDSA Innovation Working Group. Continuing in our series previewing sessions at the Digital Preservation 2014 conference, the NDSA Innovation Working Group will host the session “Digital Preservation Questions and Answers” on Day 2 (Wednesday July 23, 2014) …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is a guest post from Julia Fernandez, this year’s NDIIPP Junior Fellow. Julia has a background in American studies and working with folklife institutions and is working on a range of projects leading up to CurateCamp Digital Culture in July. This is part of an ongoing series of interviews Julia is conducting to …
Posted in: Digital Content, Insights Interview