December 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter

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

Good News: Librarian Job Growth Exploding!

Quick quiz: Is the employment outlook for librarians growing or shrinking? The answer depends on what you call a “library job.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job outlook for librarians is “slower than average,” with a projected rate of change in employment this decade of 7%, slower than the 14% average growth …

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Back to School: Students Archiving the Web

“Do you remember how we did things back when your great great grandma or grandpa [were alive]? We had moved Native Americans from their homelands, so we could have more and more land for ourselves.” The above reference describes the Whitefish Middle School’s Montana Indian Tribes, Modern Life, 2010-2011 Web Archiving Collection. This unique collection, …

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A Piece of Southern Cultural Heritage Preserved

“We leave Gulfport at noon; gulls overhead trailing the boat—streamers, noisy fanfare— all the way to Ship Island. What we see first is the fort, its roof of grass a lee— half reminder of the men who served there— a weathered monument to some of the dead.” -excerpt from Natasha Trethewey’s “Elegy for the Native …

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Where We Communicate

We recently celebrated The Signal’s first birthday, and we’re thrilled there are over 10,000 followers of our NDIIPP Twitter account.  Social media has become more and more a mass means of communication. We started by dipping our toes in the facebook pool and then swimming laps in the Twitter stream.  And a year ago, we …

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

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 …

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

The May 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201205.pdf In this issue: Exploring Collections using Viewshare The challenges of extracting information from floppy disks U.S. government elections and web archiving at the Spring CNI Meeting Preservation of and access to federally funded scientific data Help launch a digital preservation Q & …

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Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone): Stewarding Digital Geospatial Data

I had the pleasure of giving a lightning talk (PDF) at last week’s Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, DC. The conference, which is free to Federal government employees, annually brings together over 2700 attendees of all experience levels to discuss the latest in geospatial technologies. I tried to have fun with it, using the …

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The February 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation newsletter is now available

The February 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201202.pdf In this issue: *The Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2011 *Thoughts and reflections on the Science 2012 conference *Update about the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act *Read about what  projects the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group and the Infrastructure …

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Readers, Would You Care to Contribute Digital Preservation Web-based Resources?

While I was exploring the new National Archives and Records Administration Transcription Pilot Project this week, I thought about how many innovative, and frankly cool, crowdsourcing platforms the libraries and archives communities launched in the past year. The New York Public Library What’s on the Menu project, the NARA Citizen Archivist Dashboard, The University of …

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