The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program of the Library of Congress, in partnership with the Indiana State Archives and Indiana State Library, is pleased to announce a call for applications to participate in the DPOE Train-the-Trainer …
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. A number of us around the office have fielded some interesting questions recently, both at public events and over email, regarding digital preservation’s susceptibility to what I will call, for lack of a better term, cataclysmic …
Of late it seems that almost every project I have been called to work on involves some aspect of “Big Data.” I have been challenged in the past that libraries actually have big data, because we don’t as a general rule collect social science or scientific datasets. But I feel strongly in asserting that our …
Selection–what to keep, how to keep it, and how long to keep it–quickly comes up in connection with stewardship of digital content. Consider two prevalent concepts at opposite extremes. One holds that we are failing to save enough digital content, a position taken in a recent article in the Economist, History flushed: The digital age …
Consider this digital photo I took of the face of the Albert Einstein Memorial outside the National Academy of Sciences. Although my photo tells us something about what the memorial looks like, I don’t think anyone would say that I “digitized” it. We think about this kind of photo as a creative work (albeit not …
At the beginning of April 2012 we published States of Sustainability: A Review of State Projects funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) (PDF), a report written by Christopher A. Lee. The comprehensive report neatly wraps our recent digital preservation work with state governments, but in the case of the Geospatial …
The following is a guest post by Ellen O’Donnell, Technical Writer, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, who recently spent a year on detail in OSI. After a strange winter in Washington, D.C., of no snow and warm temperatures, and a strange spring of early blossoms and drought, I woke up to something rare–a …
The Library of Congress was thrilled to host the 2012 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly April 30 – May 4th. Over 150 registrants packed meeting rooms to discuss all aspects of web archiving. From legal issues to technical challenges to research use, the entire lifecycle of web archiving was covered. As a library and …
The following is a guest post by Carla Miller, Administrative Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives. This is Part Two of a post reporting on the joint meeting on March 23, 2012 of both the Still Image and Audio Visual Working Groups of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative hosted at the National Archives …
The following is a guest post by Jane Mandelbaum, IT Project Manager at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Insights Interview series is an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved in projects related to preservation, access, and stewardship of digital information. …