Discovering Art Collections through Viewshare. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-18.

2011 Junior Fellow, Jordan Roehl holds Plantation Book discovered in the Collections of the Manuscript Division. Photographer: Abby B. Lewis

Replaying Childhood: On Gifting my Video Games to the Library of Congress. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-17.

MapStory empowers a global community to organize knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. With MapStory, people of all kinds turn into Storytellers who can create, share, and collaborate on MapStories and ultimately improve our understanding of global dynamics.

Digital Technology Expands the Scope and Reach of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-14.

Raising Digital Preservation Awareness to Combat Complacency and Fear. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-13.

December 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-11.

That up there isn't some joke image someone tossed up on Tumblr. It's a real photo, taken from the Library of Congress' video game collection, and it features vintage strategy guides, rebound and preserved for the ages. The image was taken from a recent in-house interview held on the Library's...

From Math to DataPeople used calculators to manipulate numbers. But how do you make machines that also manipulate words or ideas? Punched cards, a mainstay of early office automation and computing, helped launch the transition from doing math to processing data. Patterns of holes punched in cards ca...

Call to Action to Preserve Science Discourse on the Open Web. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-12.

Sharing is Caring 2012 – Let’s Get Real! Program af Merete Sanderhoff •

The Foundations of Emulation as a Service: An Interview with Dirk von Suchodoletz, Part Two. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-11.

The Foundations of Emulation as a Service: An Interview with Dirk von Suchodoletz, Part One. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-10.

As a first year graduate student at the University of Maryland’s School of Information, I, like many other library students across the country, enrolled in a required course that focused on the organization of information.

As in years past, the end of May heralds the results of School of Information student projects related to the UT Videogame Archive. This year, one project held particular interest for the archive, as it sought to “preserve” Richard Garriott’s early RPG Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress.

The Internet is forever — and so are texts, tweets and Facebook updates — but a startup has big ambitions to bring privacy and impermanence to online communication. The company, called Wickr, lets users decide how long a message lives.

Imagine What We’ll Know This Time Next Week: An Interview with Bailey Smith and Anne Wootton of Pop Up Archive. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-06.

* My friend had a young daughter under 5 years old. Like many other families these days, they have no tv in their house, but do have has lots of computers. With his daughter he was visiting another family who had a tv, which was on in another room. The daughter went up to the tv, hunting around it, ...

What Resolution Should I Use? Part 1. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-05.

3Mon DecArchiving the arts – why and how?Posted by Melinda Haunton inArchives sectorArchiving the artsWe’re embarking on an exciting new collection strategy this month, called Archiving the Arts. Our work on collection strategies generally is about identifying those areas of our society which need s...

Digital Pioneer: Martha Anderson. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-12-04.

The DPC Award for Teaching and Communication celebrates significant efforts to empower workforces or engage policy makers with the skills and information they need to make digital preservation a practical reality. It is presented to the project,

Meghan Frazer is the Digital Resources Curator for the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University.

Pulp to Pixels: Artists Books in the Digital Age. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-11-30.

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An Abundant Crop: The End of Term Harvest. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2012-11-29.

MoMA | Video Games: 14 in the Collection, for Starters