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Posted by: Martha Anderson
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. The second in my series of “ask the Recommending Officer” posts features a conversation with Cassy Ammen, who shares her experience in helping to build the September 11 Web Archive. Who are you, and what’s your job at the Library of Congress? …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
When was the last time you wrote a letter, on paper? Other than my note-to-self stickies (my desk usually has a bunch), or greeting cards, I personally have not written much of substance, just on paper, in a long time. These days, of course, we are engulfed in the digital versions of note writing – …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. I am attending the annual conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) in Frankfurt, Germany, hosted by the Hessischer Rundfunk (the public broadcasting unit for the German state of Hesse), the German public broadcasting archive, …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Kate Zwaard, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. I used to have a note on the wall of my office that said “get the records off the floor.” It reminded me that making sure the collections are safe comes first. …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Victoria Priester, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. After completing the North Carolina Public Outreach and Education Project, my next Junior Fellow internship activity involved analyzing trends in web technology on sites featured in the Library of Congress Web Archives. I focused on congressional campaign web sites …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
What a treat – I was able to listen to an historic 1912 recording of the violinist Fritz Kreisler playing his Schön Rosmarin – and I ventured no farther than my computer. Amidst the crackle and hiss of the old recording, Kreisler’s rich sound came through, and gave me the experience I was looking for …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Barrie Howard, Program Management Coordinator, NDIIPP. This post is the second in a short series about U.S. government grant programs that have funded digital preservation since 2000. Readers can discover what the Library of Congress has accomplished through NDIIPP from the program’s website, and my previous post covered …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Lara Lookabaugh, an intern working with the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Initiative. This week’s digital preservation items from around the web: Videos from the ICE Forum: http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/jisc-bgdp/2011/08/19/videos-from-the-ice-forum/ Some short vox pop videos created at the JISC International Curation Education (ICE) Forum are now available. Moonalice plays Palo …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Steve Puglia, Digital Conversion Services Manager for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative, formed in 2007, includes representatives from various Federal agencies dealing with the digitization of cultural heritage collections. This group meets regularly to discuss technical topics of common interest, with the …
Posted in: Digital Content