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Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. As I’ve written about before, LC takes a selective approach when archiving the web. Selection of sites is not something we automate; Recommending Officers (or, “ROs” in LC lingo), do this work. Recommending materials for addition to …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. It’s been three weeks since the NDIIPP/NDSA partners meeting and to keep the “Make it Work” spirit going we’d like to focus on the work of one of the speakers from that event, Helen Hockx-Yu. …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Martha Anderson
An abecedarian is one who is learning the fundamentals of something, as in the alphabet, or in this case, digital preservation. Today I am beginning a series that will explore the topic of digital preservation in an alphabetical way. Each post will use a word or phrase as a device to explore a concept and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. On “The Signal,” we’ve talked about different aspects of digital preservation – like here and here – and we’ve talked about geospatial information and digital mapping. In this post, I’d like to talk about the resource NDIIPP is helping to develop (and the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
Most people think of books when they think of the Library of Congress, but in fact, the Library is one of the largest collectors of maps in the world. It’s a challenge for any organization, even the Library of Congress, to keep up with the quantity of maps now being created digitally, but there is …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is part of a series featuring the work of our National Digital Stewardship Alliance partners. “A place for everything, everything in its place, and seven secure copies”, so says the “digital” Ben Franklin, as he’s quoted at the top of the MetaArchive project page. He would of course, be very happy with the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Over the last six months, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Infrastructure Working Group has been talking storage. After listening to several presentations on shiny new decentralized, distributed and or cloud storage platforms we quickly realized that the diversity …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Martha Anderson
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress, serving as Content Working Group co-chair for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. Digital preservationists are generally peaceful types, so no actual dragons were harmed in the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group’s “Slaying the Dragons: What …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
When Rebecca Guenther retires from the Library of Congress in August 2011, 35 years of institutional knowledge about bibliographic information will go with her. The Library of Congress loses – among other things – the world’s leading authority on PREMIS metadata for digital preservation. Guenther has nurtured conversations among international library stakeholders, conversations that led …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure