Library of Congress: Digital Preservation

NDIIPP Meeting Draws Record Crowd

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:39:34 GMT

July 2, 2009 -- The Library of Congress annual National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program meeting drew over 150 people from 20 states to share results from digital stewardship projects.

NDIIPP Launches New Digital Preservation Video Series

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:38:50 GMT

July 2, 2009 -- The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program has released a new video: Bagit: Transferring Content for Digital Preservation.

Battling Link Rot

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:03:30 GMT

June 30, 2009 -- A Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive report illustrates the severity of link rot: the tendency of web hyperlinks to become invalid over time.

The report notes that nearly 14 percent of 4,300 online publications archived between 2007 and 2009 have already disappeared from their original locations on the web. Due to the project’s efforts, however, these publications remain available.

Digital Preservation in the Round

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:02:31 GMT

June 30, 2009 -- The 2009 annual Special Libraries Association conference, held in Washington, D.C. in mid-June, featured a session entitled "Digital Preservation: Discovery in the Round."

Meeting the Challenge: Digital Content Transfer Tools

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:53:21 GMT

The Library of Congress has developed new tools to transfer large quantities of digital content. During 2008, the Library used these tools to add approximately 80 terabytes to its digital collections.

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Jerry Handfield

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:52:33 GMT

Washington State Archivist Jerry Handfield traces his work on the innovative Washington State Digital Archives back to a history project he did in high school in Norwich, Connecticut.

June 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter now available.

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:02:43 GMT

The June 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available.

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200906.pdf

Articles in this issue:

* Tradition Meets Web 2.0 – The Library’s Flickr Project
* Archiving 2009 Conference
* Library Trends Issue Dedicated to NDIIPP Projects
* Recent Meetings, Announcements and more!

Web Preservationists Meet

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:48:21 GMT

June 11, 2009 -- On May 4-7, 2009, 60 participants from 20 countries gathered at the Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa for the annual International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly.

Get Smart about Photography Metadata

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:47:32 GMT

June 11, 2009 -- The Stock Artists Alliance, a partner of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Preserving Creative America initiative, has launched a website to promote industry-wide use of metadata in digital images.

WARC File Format Published as an International Standard

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:19:31 GMT

June 4, 2009 -- The WARC file format is now approved as an international standard: ISO 28500:2009.

Issue of "Library Trends" Focuses on NDIIPP Results

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:18:44 GMT

June 4 , 2009 -- The Winter 2009 issue of "Library Trends" provides a broad overview of results from the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.

May 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter Now Available

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:59:44 GMT

The May 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now
available.

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200905.pdf

Articles in this issue:

* Public Interest in Private Records
* State Partners Meet
* NARA Conference Explores a New Preservation Era
* International Intern at NDIIPP
* World Digital Library & other announcements

Big Issues, Practical Tools Discussed at Archiving 2009 Conference

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:44:39 GMT

May 28, 2009 -- The Archiving 2009 Conference, held in Arlington, VA, from May 4-7, 2009, had something for everyone with an interest in digital preservation.

The conference program was evenly balanced between digital collection stewardship on the one hand and imaging and preservation on the other. This permitted a unique opportunity for cross-domain interaction and sharing.

State Legislators Hear About Digital Preservation

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:43:59 GMT

May 28, 2009 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program hosted a meeting in late April of the National Conference of State Legislators, bringing state legislators and their information technology representatives to the Library to hear about recent projects that are leveraging existing investments and technology solutions to both preserve and provide access to valuable state legislative information.

International Exchange Intern Visits NDIIPP

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:43:04 GMT

May 14, 2009 -- The National Digital Infrastructure and Information and Preservation Program hosted its first international exchange intern during April and May of 2009. Sabine Schrimpf of nestor, the German Network of Expertise in Digital Preservation, worked with the NDIIPP team at the Library of Congress for six weeks to gain insight into all aspects the program.

Fran Berman Joining Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:40:31 GMT

May 14, 2009 -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego has announced that Director Fran Berman will be leaving to accept the position of Vice President of Research with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, effective August 1, 2009.

World Digital Library Launched

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:21:49 GMT

May 14, 2009 -- On April 21, 2009, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and 32 partner institutions launched the World Digital Library.

State CIOs Briefed on NDIIPP

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:21:09 GMT

May 14, 2009 -- Chief Information Officers and policy leaders from a dozen states received an update on April 29, 2009 about Library of Congress digital preservation efforts. The National Association of State Chief Information Officers arranged the briefing in connection with its annual "Fly-In" to meet with federal officials in Washington, DC.

Kirsch Discusses Public Interest in Private Records

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:04:51 GMT

April 21, 2009 -- “There are more businesses created each year than there are marriages, but even with high divorce rates the business failure rates are higher,” said David Kirsch, Associate Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland during a presentation at the Library of Congress on March 17, 2009.

Kirsch leads the Birth of the Dot-Com Era project, which is supported by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. He spoke about the project at the Library of Congress on March 17, 2009.

NDIIPP State Partners Meet to Discuss Network Opportunities

April 17, 2009 -- According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, at least 47 states are currently facing shortfalls in their budgets, and the combined budget gap for the current and next two fiscal years is estimated to total more than $350 billion.

This issue served as a backdrop for a recent meeting of the four Preserving State Government Information initiative projects supported by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. The projects met in late March at the Library of Congress to share information about efforts to preserve and provide access to important government digital information.

NARA Conference Explores a New Preservation Era

April 17, 2009 -- A one-day conference, Digitizing for Preservation and Access: Past is Prologue, was held at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. on March 26, 2009. In addition to staff from NARA, the Library of Congress and other federal government agencies, there were participants from university libraries, state archives and a representative from the National Archives of the UK.

April 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available

Articles in this issue:
* Indo-US Workshop on International Trends in Digital Preservation
* Preserving Photogrammetry
* Community Approaches to Preservation Conference
* Digital Preservation Pioneer: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science
* Announcements

Registration Open for the Archiving 2009 Conference

The sixth IS&T Archiving Conference brings together an international group of experts from industry, academia, government, archives, libraries and museums to share the latest information about digital stewardship and preservation imaging.

Call for Papers for the Cultural Heritage Online Conference

The Call for Papers is now open for the Cultural Heritage Online Conference. The conference is being sponsored by the Digital Renaissance Foundation, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and the Library of Congress.

NDIIPP Works with Indian National Digital Preservation Programme

April 7, 2009 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program was well represented at the Indo-US Workshop on International Trends in Digital Preservation held in Pune, India on March 24-25, 2009. Workshop objectives included learning from the experiences of other nations and developing a strategy for implementing the Indian National Digital Preservation Programme.

ASPRS Aspires to Preserve Geospatial Data

March 26, 2009 -- The 75th anniversary annual meeting of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing considered digital stewardship issues from the perspective of the NDIIPP Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership.

MetaArchive Supports Community Approaches Conference

March 26, 2009 -- The MetaArchive Project helped sponsor Community Approaches to Digital Preservation 2009, a February 20, 2009 conference focusing on collaborative approaches to digital preservation services.

Digital Preservation Pioneer: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

March 20, 2009 -- The motion picture industry is rapidly changing from film to digital media, and within the next decade it is likely that most movies will be shot, edited, distributed and projected digitally. As the industry embraces new technology, there is concern that they are not doing enough to address the long-term preservation of digital productions. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is working quickly and diligently to remedy the situation and save valuable works before they become lost.

Students 'Spring Break' with NDIIPP

March 20, 2009 -- For students, spring break is a tradition that usually involves sunshine and sleeping in. But two graduate students from the University of Michigan, School of Information spent their week interning with NDIIPP as part of the school’s Alternative Spring Break Program.

March 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter Now Available

The March 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available.

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200903.pdf

In this issue:
* Link to the "CBS Sunday Morning" story on "data rot"
* Report from the Fifty States Federal Stakeholders Workshop on GIS data
* New Preserving State Government Information project brochures
* Information about the Audio-Visual Working Group of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiatives
* Announcement of the Audit Control Environment (ACE) software from the University of Maryland
* Upcoming Events

Secretaries of State Briefed on Preserving State Government Information

March 12, 2009 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program was on the agenda for the National Association of Secretaries of State Heritage Committee meeting on February 6, 2009. Over two dozen secretaries and staff attended a briefing about the NDIIPP Preserving State Government Information initiative.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: CBS Looks at "Data Rot"

March 6, 2009 -- Digital preservation was featured on the "CBS Sunday Morning" show on March 1, 2009 with a segment titled "Bye, Tech: Dealing with Data Rot."

Meeting the Challenge: Federal Agencies Collaborate on Digitization Guidelines, Pt. III

March 9, 2009 -- Books, photographic slides, audio tapes: these and other documentary materials require specialized techniques to create long-term, sustainable digital versions. Developing best practices for digitizing sound, video recordings and motion picture film is the specific challenge faced by the Audio-Visual Working Group, a component of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative.

Dr. David Kirsch to Speak at the Library

March 9, 2009 -- Dr. David Kirsch, an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, will discuss "A Public Interest in Private Records."

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: National Digital Library Learning Center, Madison Building Atrium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Registration Open for Digital Preservation Management Workshop

March 9, 2009 -- Registration is now open for the Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems Workshop, now hosted by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) after originally being developed at Cornell by Anne R Kenney and Nancy Y McGovern.

ACE Trumps Digital Integrity Threats

February 26, 2009 -- The University of Maryland has released the Audit Control Environment (ACE) to help archives and libraries manage the integrity of their holdings.

GeoMAPP Engaging With National Geospatial Networks

February 26, 2009 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program supported GeoMAPP project is a multi-agency partnership working to preserve significant geospatial data. A key part of this work involves engaging with the long-standing network among federal, state, and local geospatial agencies.

NDIIPP States Projects Publish Informational Brochures

February 26, 2009 -- The four projects of the Preserving State Government Information initiative are making it easier to get information about their activities.

February 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter Now Available

February 11, 2009 - - In this edition:

* Digital Preservation Pioneer: Jerry McDonough
* The release of the Understanding PREMIS Metadata Guide
* An update from the ALA Digital Preservation Interest Group meeting
* LiWA web archiving newsletter released
* Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives Laura
Campbell at Information Online

New Digital Preservation Pioneer: Jerry McDonough

February 6, 2009 -- Early one recent evening, eight-year-old Colleen A. eagerly climbed onto the desk chair at the family computer, grabbed the mouse and settled in. It was time for her to visit her favorite kid-friendly online world.

After logging on, she selected an animated cat named
Princess as her avatar (a digital representation of her) and within minutes she found some avatar friends and they dashed off together into the vast virtual world to play.

Millions of people immerse themselves daily in games and virtual worlds and gaming is fixed in our culture. But only recently have cultural institutions begun attempts to document and preserve games. It is a thorny problem, even for those with substantial experience archiving other varieties of digital content.

Jerry McDonough, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of the NDIIPP-funded Preserving Virtual Worlds scholars working on the challenge.

Campbell Speaks to the Australian Library and Information Association

February 6, 2009 -- Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress, recently spoke at Information Online, the 14th meeting of the Australian Library and Information Association held January 20-22 in Sydney. ALIA is a professional organization that provides leadership, advocacy and support for the Australian library and information services community.

Understanding PREMIS Metadata Guide Available

February 5, 2009 -- The Understanding PREMIS Guide is now available on the Library of Congress Standards Web site. This guide is a relatively brief overview of the PREMIS preservation metadata standard.

Web Archiving Newsletter

February 5, 2009 -- LiWA, or Living Web Archives, has published the first issue of the "LiWA News." LiWA seeks to develop Web capture and preservation tools in the increasingly complex and dynamic Web environment.

Digital Preservation Interest Group at 2009 ALA Midwinter

February 5, 2009 -- The American Library Association Digital Preservation Interest Group met during the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The Group provides librarians from large and small institutions the opportunity to share and discuss plans and experiences in establishing digital preservation programs.

Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access Report Now Available

January 29, 2009 -- The Interim report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access is now available.

Minn. State Government Initiative Brings Partners Together

January 12, 2009 -- Partners in the Model Technological and Social Architecture for the Preservation of State Government Digital Information project met in December in St. Paul, Minn. to get updates on the latest project work, and to plan activities for the next phase of the project.

The project is part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s Preserving State Government Information initiative, which is focused on capturing, preserving, and providing access to a rich variety of state and local government digital information.

Library Releases Software Tools

January 9, 2009 -- The Library of Congress has released software tools that cultural heritage organizations can use to send and receive digital data. All the tools are open source, which means they can be freely used and modified with minimal conditions.

The tools are available through SourceForge, the technology community’s hub for open source software distribution and services, under the Library of Congress Transfer Tools project.

Initial NDIIPP Partners Plan for the Future

December 30, 2008 -- Heads of the initial eight NDIIPP partnerships met with Library staff to discuss ideas for continuing collaboration after their projects end in 2009. The meeting took place in Washington, DC, December 10-11, 2008.

Transfer Tools and Services Spark Interest at DLF

December 30, 2008 -- Library of Congress staff and NDIIPP partners participated in a panel focusing on content transfer at the Digital Library Federation 2008 Fall Forum in Providence, RI.

New Digital Preservation Pioneer: Larry Carver

On November, 3, 2008, election night, almost every television news station and Web news site displayed an interactive map of the United States with real-time voting results.

The maps shared a common feature: geospatial technology analyzing a range of geographic-based coordinates and data. The technology has evolved over the last three decades from specialized academic obscurity to the ultimate form of public acceptance: it is now just another information-age appliance running discreetly in the background and taken for granted in a Google world. Larry Carver is among the visionaries who enabled this transformation.

Archiving in Aarhus

December 1, 2008 -- Aarhus, Denmark, became a hotbed of Web archiving activities as representatives from the Library of Congress Web Capture team and many other preservation institutions from around the world participated in the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries during the week of September 15, 2008.

November 2008 Digital Preservation Newsletter Released

Full archives of Digital Preservation Newsletters Available

All back issues of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter are available online at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/archive.html.

September 2008 Digital Preservation Newsletter Released

In this issue:

-Announcement of the End-of-Term Web site capture project
-Information about JHOVE and JHOVE2
-Invitation to participate in a Mass Storage meeting in Maryland

April 2008 Digital Preservation Newsletter Released

In this issue:

-An announcement about the recently released Section 108 Study Group Report
-News about the growing Digital Preservation Network
-Information about a multistate project meeting to preserve local government data

Preserving Audiovisual Works: The Packard Campus

The Library of Congress has just opened a state-of-the art conservation center for its audio and visual works. Learn what the Library is doing.

New Digital Preservation Partners: States

The Library of Congress digital preservation program, NDIIPP, adds new partners to preserve state government digital information.

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Richard Pearce-Moses

Archivist Richard Pearce-Moses has the daunting challenge of building a system to curate the valuable digital records and data from the state of Arizona. By his example he is leading the way for 21st century archivists and librarians, and their future work with digital content.

Library of Congress Strategic Planning Reports Released

The Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives has just released their strategic plan for the next six years. It outlines the Library's vision for digital programs, including the national digital preservation plan.

Preserving Audiovisual Works: The Packard Campus

The Library of Congress holds the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of audiovisual works, including more than 6.2 million moving images, sound recordings and related documents. These materials are increasingly being created and distributed in digital form, and the Library is meeting the challenge to collect and preserve this valuable cultural heritage in the digital environment.

Digital Preservation Pioneer: John Spencer

Library of Congress partner in the Preserving Creative America initiative John Spencer, of BMS/Chace, is working to preserve digital recorded music and help solve some of his industry's digital production and storage problems.

Video Formatting Presentation

Click the link above to download a PDF of Carl Fleischhauer's presentation at the Digital Library Federation meeting in November 2007.

Download Digital Preservation Tips

Click the link above to download a PDF brochure with tips for preserving your digital materials at home.

NDIIPP Names New Director

Martha Anderson is the director of program management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Margaret Hedstrom

The current state of digital preservation could bias history in favor of certain cultures. Margaret Hedstrom is searching for solutions.

Did You Know?

Test your knowledge with this short and informative quiz about digital preservation.

Bringing Historic Newspapers to Your Desktop: The National Digital Newspaper Program

Thanks to the historic record provided by newspapers, we have a much clearer picture of the economic, political and social life of the United States. Learn how these fragile resources are being saved through digital preservation.

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Steve Morris

There is a wealth of Geographic Information System (GIS) data available online now. Is that data being preserved? Steve Morris is working hard to sort it out.

Digital Preservation Pioneers: Cathy Hartman And CyberCemetery

The University of North Texas "CyberCemetery" archives expired federal Web sites, making them permanently accessible to the public. The university has been a NDIIPP partner since 2004.

Digital Preservation Partners Update

The Library of Congress digital preservation partners meet in June, and NDIIPP partner California Digital Library shares a collection of web capture plans.

Preserving Digital Creative Works

The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), today announced eight partnerships as part of its new Preserving Creative America initiative to address the long-term preservation of creative content in digital form.

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Eileen Fenton

Eileen Fenton is the executive director of Portico, a continuing archiving service for scholarly resources published in electronic form, beginning with electronic scholarly journals.

Digital Formats

A Library of Congress Web site tracks key information about the sustainability of a variety of digital formats.

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Dr. David Kirsch

Kirsch is on a mission to rescue and preserve data from the very recent past, the dot-com boom and bust, before it slips away.

Preserving Your Digital Memories

Learn important tips from the Library of Congress for preserving your own digital memories.

Public Television Project Spearheads Digital Preservation Archive

The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS), a nonprofit membership organization that supports the continued growth and development of noncommercial television in the United States, is supporting the concepts of preservation and access as an important extension of public broadcasting.

Laura Campbell Wins Prestigious Award

Laura Campbell is the 2007 winner of the EMC Information Leadership Award

NDIIPP Partner Update

The North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP) have two news items to report:

1. Members of the NCGDAP are working with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), a nonprofit international standards organization, to help develop digital preservation standards for the geospatial industry.

2. NCGDAP is actively involved in efforts to improve the North Carolina OneMap services by investigating how historic and at-risk data might be integrated into Web-based mapping services.

Read more about these developments and future NDIIPP partner updates at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news

Meeting the Challenge: Saving the World Wide Web

Since 2000, the Library of Congress has been capturing Web sites and developing thematic, event-driven Web archives on topics such as the 2000, 2002 and 2004 national elections, the Iraq War and the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

Meeting the Challenge is a regular feature of www.digitalpreservation.gov. It describes how the Library of Congress and NDIIPP are meeting the challenge of digital preservation.

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Howard Besser

Read how Howard Besser preserved his T-shirt database and taught the next generation of archivists to save digital material in the new feature on digitalpreservation.gov called Digital Preservation Pioneers.

NDIIP News: May 2007

This month's news features a reminder about NDIIPP's upcoming ALA Symposium, a pointer to the recent feature article in the Washington Times titled "Saving the Digital Record", and an update from the Section 108 Study Group.

Digital Preservation News: April 2007

Welcome, and thank you for subscribing to the Library of Congress Digital Preservation RSS Feed. You'll be receiving the latest news and announcements about the Library's National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP), explanations about why digital preservation is a critical priority for the nation's future, and information on how individuals can preserve their own digital collections.

This first feed features an announcement of a day's worth of digital preservation panels at the Library of Congress coinciding with ALA Annual Meeting in June and updates from NDIIPP partners, including a favorable court ruling supporting the preservation of digital records.