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 Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. In a previous post I reviewed my process for end-of-the-year archiving of my picture and personal files onto two external hard disk drives. This year I went an extra step – I added all the files saved in my CD-ROM …
Martha Anderson and Bill Lefurgy contributed to this story. Twenty years ago, Dr. James Billington hired Laura Campbell to join the Library of Congress as director of Library Distribution Services. Through Campbell’s previous consultation work with the Library, he recognized her great talent. “I was impressed by the organization and precision in the reports she …
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 …
The following is a guest post by Kevin Marcou, a second-year student in the School of Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America and a Crowley Company contract worker at the Library of Congress. Recently, while clearing out a backpack, I found a 3.5” floppy disk dating from high school. Of course, I …
The June 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201206.pdf In this issue: The Library of Congress digital preservation blog, The Signal, is a year old A recap of the week-long International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly News from The Signal: Defining the “Big” in Big Data; GeoMAPP and the Future of …
When historians of the future want to understand Latin American governments, they are going to be thrilled that curators like Kent Norsworthy from University of Texas Libraries have been preserving Latin American government websites. Since 2005 the Latin American Government Documents Archive has been collecting, preserving, and providing access to ministerial and presidential documents from 18 Latin …
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Humanities and Technology Camp, or THATCamp, is a model for holding low-cost, collaborative “unconferences” at which professionals from a range of different communities can share tools, knowledge, and ideas to support the relationship between the …