For this installment of Insights, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group’s ongoing series of interviews, I talk with Michael Edson, the Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution. Edson gave a compelling talk at last year’s NDIIPP/NDSA conference, Let Us Go Boldly into the Present I’m excited to take …
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. Over the last few months, we have been reporting results from the storage survey conducted by the NDSA Infrastructure Working Group, one of the five working groups of the The National Digital Stewardship Alliance. See the …
The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. Frequency of occurring? Rare. Impact of occurring? Huge. I’m talking about digital disasters. Stewards of digital content, like stewards of analog content, must plan for catastrophe in advance in order to minimize loss and recover quickly. True, digital disasters may occur infrequently. But at …
The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. A packed house heard Tony Hey and Clifford Lynch present on The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Research, Digital Scholarship and Implications for Libraries at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference. Jim Gray coined The Fourth Paradigm in 2007 to reflect a movement toward data-intensive science. Adapting …
They’re the red-headed stepchildren of the digital age. They’re neither retro chic (all things being relative, of course) like the server arrays that support “big data,” nor are they as cute as the thumb drives made to look like your favorite Star Wars character (or more oddly, chicken feet). Of what do I speak? The …
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, a summer intern with the Library of Congress. Greetings! I am a graduate student at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies where I am pursuing a master’s degree in Library Science with a concentration in Information and Diverse populations. I hold an undergraduate degree in …
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group. This is the second part of a two-post recap of the “Harvesting and Preserving the Future Web” workshop at the recent International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly. The session was divided into three topics: Capture: challenges in acquiring …
The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. A recent behind-the-scenes tour of the Packard Campus of the Library of Congress in Culpeper, VA, offered us Junior Fellows a glimpse into the cutting edge of audiovisual preservation, as well as insight into incremental development of a digital preservation effort. Undoubtedly one of …
The 2012 IIPC General Assembly has been well documented on this blog. The research use of web archives, legal issues, special collections and the future of harvest have all been covered in detail. This is the last planned post about the 2012 GA but look for more updates about the IIPC and web archiving on …
The following is guest post from Amy Rudersdorf, Director, Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina. We’ve got high hopes . . . Just what makes that little ole ant Think he’ll move that rubber tree plant? Anyone knows an ant can’t Move a rubber tree plant But he’s got high …