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December 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter

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The December 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available.

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201212.pdfDecember 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter

In this issue:

  • Digital Preservation Pioneer: Martha Anderson, Director Program Management NDIIPP
  • Levels of Digital Preservation Candidate One Release
  • Find out about the latest PDF/A specification: PDF/A-3
  • Did you know that museums had computer networks in the 1960′s?
  • Read about a recent exhibit at Hampshire College, “Pulp to Pixels: Artists Books in the Digital Age.”
  • New video release about the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Curriculum Training
  • New report: Science @Risk: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Online Science
  • Recent interviews with Pratt Associate Professor Debbie Rabina and Paul Wheatly of the Spruce Project
  • Upcoming event: Personal Digital Archiving 2013, Feb 21-22, University of Maryland

Read All About It! An Update on the National Digital Newspaper Program

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Here at the Library of Congress, there are many projects underway to digitize and make available vast amounts of historic, archival material.  One such project is the National Digital Newspaper Program, providing access to millions of pages from historic newspapers (a previous blog post provides an introduction).  Deb Thomas, NDNP program coordinator here at the …

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Potential Residency Hosts Invited to Library of Congress

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The following is a guest post by Ali Fazal and Claudia Martinez, both HACU interns with the Library’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The National Digital Stewardship Residency program held a meeting with potential host institutions on Friday, September 21st. This program, which was created by the Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Initiatives, and the Institute …

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The October 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available

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The October 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201210.pdf In this issue: *Find out how you can help define levels of digital preservation *Reflections on CurateCamp processing *Read about three individuals who are working on the preservation of video games *Learn about the difference between domains and subdomains in web archiving …

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Yes, The Library of Congress Has Video Games: An Interview with David Gibson

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Video games represent one of the most difficult challenges for digital preservationists. Created for a diverse array of hardware and software platforms, rife with rights issues, and as expressive creative works objects which one hopes to attend to the highest levels of artifactual qualities. Despite being one of the most challenging forms of content, there …

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Who Do You Want to Be Today?

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I lead a group that develops software for the management, preservation and delivery of digital collections.  In some organizations, digital preservation is part of the physical preservation unit.  In some organizations, software development is part of the systems office.  Or software development might be part of a central IT unit. I work with colleagues who …

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Collaborating to Identify Government or Election-related Websites to Preserve

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The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. Is a U.S. Government website or part of a site you use or know about at risk of disappearing? Is there a website related to the 2012 U.S. Elections that you think should be preserved? Always dreamed of contributing to a collaborative …

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