Day two of the 2011 NDIIPP partners meeting featured several workshops focusing on digital stewardship. Highlights from each of the workshops are below. Slaying the Dragons: What is at risk and how do we rescue it? Sponsored by the Content Working Group. The group discussed the goals of a proposed “adoption clearinghouse” for at-risk data. […]
Today is the first day of the 2011 NDIIPP partners meeting. We are starting out with a bang: a keynote from Tim O’Reilly. Our other opening speakers are Siva Vaidhyanathan, Yancy Strickler, Micheal Edson and Aaron Presnall. When I think back to the first NDIIPP partners meeting six years ago, two opposing thoughts rattle my […]
The following is a guest post by Victoria Priester, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. During my first week as a Library of Congress Junior Fellow I was given the North Carolina Public Outreach and Education Project. The project’s objective was to send resources and information about personal digital preservation to public libraries, community […]
The following is a guest post by Kristin Snawder, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. “If it’s scanned, then it’s preserved, right? I mean, it’s in the computer now so that’s all I need to do!” I’ve heard this response when I ask if something is digitally preserved and it raises concerns. Lumping scanning […]
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. In an earlier post I talked about the types of Web content that the Library of Congress archives. Despite the tremendous amount we’ve preserved, we know we can’t do it alone. We often collaborate to build web […]
Archives, libraries and other collecting organizations are in the midst of a staff revolution. The digital age is driving a demand for employees who are comfortable and creative with technology. As someone who hires and supervises staff in a digitally-oriented environment I know this first hand. I often hear from students and others with questions […]
In addition to the ongoing challenge of direct digital preservation there are other related activities that are crucial to this effort. Lots of things, actually – that are not directly “preservation” activities but do affect the digital preservation end result. Things such as metadata – which I’d like to focus on here, and using music […]
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Web Archiving Team. If science reporters, IT industry pundits and digital storage and network infrastructure purveyors are to be believed, devices are being lab-tested even now that can store all of the data in the Library of Congress or transmit it […]
The following is a guest post by Barrett Jones, Program Specialist for the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education initiative at the Library. Right now as I type this post, there is a two-hour Introduction to Digital Preservation online course available from the State Library of North Carolina Digital Information Management Program. On July 25th there’s […]
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP, and Communications Officer, IIPC. You’ve no doubt heard this catch phrase made popular by Tim Gunn from the reality competition show Project Runway. It is the advice he gives harried contestants who are trying to create a fabulous dress in under two hours […]