http://www.digitalpreservation.gov Provides the latest information about the Library of Congress's digital preservation activities. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:30:10 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/feed/ The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress is updating its communication tools! <br> <br>This is the final posting to the RSS feed you are currently viewing (http://www.loc.gov/rss/osi/digpre.xml). <br> <br>Please update your RSS readers to point to: <br>http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/feed/ <br> <br>You can subscribe to the monthly Digital Preservation newsletter at: <br>http://service.govdelivery.com/service/multi_subscribe.html?code=USLOC&amp;origin=http://www.loc.gov <br> <br>If you are already signed up for the newsletter you remain signed up and do not need to sign up again. <br> <br>For more RSS and email subscription options at the Library of Congress, please visit: <br>http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/#locshare/subscribe <br> <br> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:30:03 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/update-on-the-fadgi-still-image-group/ The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative, formed in 2007, includes representatives from various Federal agencies dealing with the digitization of cultural heritage collections. Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:10:22 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/the-voyage-of-the-library-of-congress-film/ Rediscovering a film from the 1940's about the Library of Congress. Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:09:55 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/neh-grants-relating-to-digital-preservation/ A look at the NEH and the projects it funds. Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:09:29 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/meeting-of-the-federal-agencies-audiovisual-working-group/ The Federal Agencies Audiovisual Working Group held a meeting on July 28, 2011 attended by professionals from several agencies including the Library of Congress, the National Archives (NARA) and the Smithsonian. Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:09:03 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/digital-preservation-digital-curation-digital-stewardship-what%E2%80%99s-in-some-names/ Where do these different terms come from and what do they imply? Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:08:33 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/full-open-source-release-of-recollection-platform/ Recollection is a web application that enables librarians, archivists, curators, and historians to create dynamic interfaces to cultural heritage collections. Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:08:06 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/it%E2%80%99s-been-a-busy-year-%E2%80%93-partnership-highlights/ Among our digital preservation partners innovation is taking place. Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:35:56 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/web-archive-preservation-planning/ Though presented as a unified experience, a website depends on many interrelated parts. Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:35:28 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/6-wishes-for-the-human-face-of-digital-preservation/ Technology is the easy part of digital preservation. Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:35:01 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/yes-the-library-of-congress-develops-lots-of-software-tools/ "What? Libraries develop software?" Yes they do. Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:34:23 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/ask-the-recommending-officer-the-civil-war-sesquicentennial-web-archive/ The first of a series of occasional "ask the Recommending Officer" posts. Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:50:31 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/helen-hockx-yu-web-archiving-at-the-british-library/ Helen Hockx-Yu is the Head of Web Archiving at the British Library. Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:50:04 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/a-is-for-archives-the-abcs-of-preserving-digital-information/ A new series that will explore the topic of digital preservation in an alphabetical way. Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:49:35 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/you-had-me-at-preservation-of-geospatial-information/ Highlighting the Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center. Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:49:02 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/behind-the-video-making-adding-descriptions-to-digital-photos-your-gift-to-the-future/ The making of an NDIIPP video. Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:10:14 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/mapping-the-geospatial-format-landscape/ The Library of Congress hosted the 3rd Geospatial PDF Working Group meeting. Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:09:47 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/ndsa-profile-educopia-institute/ Enter Educopia, a non-profit organization whose mission it is to foster institutional relationships and help them succeed in their digital lifecycle curation efforts. Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:08:43 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201108.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*Making It Work: A recap of the July 2011 NDSA/NDIIPP Partners Meeting <br> <br>*A compilation of blog posts on "The Signal" about Library of Congress web archiving projects, processes and data management <br> <br>*A summary of the Uniform Law Commission's approval of the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act at the ULC annual meeting last month <br> <br>*Exploring Cultural Heritage Collections With Recollection, a free, open source platform that lets archivists, librarians, scholars and curators create easy to navigate web interfaces for digital collections <br> <br>*Information about how to find out about digital preservation training <br> <br>*Recent blog posts on "The Signal" featured stories by NDIIPP interns on their summer projects, topics related to creating and organizing personal digital content for future access, and other topics related to digital preservation <br> <br>*Upcoming Events: Best Practices Exchange 2011, Oct. 20-22 in Lexington, KY, and Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections, Sept. 26-27, 2011 in Washington, DC <br> Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:55:25 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/junior-fellows-wrapping-up-digital-preservation-internship-projects/ The Library's 2011 Junior Fellows reflect on their busy summer. Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:52:35 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/how-we-do-storage-a-saga-of-bits-disk-tape-and-systems/ Over the last six months, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Infrastructure Working Group has been talking storage. Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:52:06 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/slaying-the-dragons-what-is-at-risk-and-how-do-we-rescue-it/ The NDSA Content Working Group workshop explored what types of digital information might be particularly in need of preservation. Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:51:36 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/digital-preservation-in-a-box-ndsa-outreach/ Resources to support digital preservation outreach. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:10:44 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/multitasking-for-digital-preservation-news/ How do you find pertinent information related to digital preservation? Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:10:19 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/i-can-haz-standardz-what-standards-should-be-in-the-digital-preservation-toolbox/ The NDSA Standards and Best Practices Working Group is working on a digital preservation standards survey. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:09:47 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/digital-preservations-got-talent-awarding-innovation-and-accomplishment/ How can the digital stewardship community do more to recognize and encourage innovation in the field? Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:09:14 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/digital-pioneer-rebecca-guenther/ When Rebecca Guenther retires from the Library of Congress in August 2011, 35 years of institutional knowledge about bibliographic information will go with her. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:08:45 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov:8081/news/events/ndiipp_meetings/ndiipp11/index.html Presentations from the annual meeting are now available. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:08:18 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/meet-my-trustworthy-friend-uelma/ The Uniform Law Commission approved Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, and this is huge for digital preservation. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:07:51 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/the-remains-of-the-day%E2%80%94thoughts-from-the-ndiippndsa-2011-meeting/ More perspective on the 2011 NDSA/NDIIPP Partners meeting. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:02:22 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/the-end-of-term-was-only-the-beginning/ Capturing and archiving the online record of the George W. Bush administration. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:01:55 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/tending-the-machines/ Data centers and digital preservation. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:01:27 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/2011-ndiippndsa-partners-meeting-it-worked/ Notes on the conclusion of the NDSA/NDIIPP Partners meeting. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:00:55 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/workshops-on-dragons-crypts-challenges-awards-and-interns/ Day two of the 2011 NDIIPP/NDSA meeting featured several workshops focusing on digital stewardship. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:00:23 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/kicking-off-the-2011-ndiipp-digital-preservation-partners-meeting/ An overview of first day of the 2011 NDIIPP/NDSA partners meeting. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:59:56 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/carolina-on-my-mind-marketing-digital-preservation/ A marketing effort to promote NDIIPP's personal digital archiving resources to public libraries, community colleges, and historians in North Carolina. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:48:34 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/digitization-is-different-than-digital-preservation-help-prevent-digital-orphans/ A new blog post talks about the differences between digitization and digital preservation. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:48:03 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/index.html Helen Hockx-Yu, the Head of Web Archiving at the British Library, will provide an overview of the British Library's web archiving activities. Monday July 18 at 12 noon. Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:56:43 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/it-takes-a-village%E2%80%A6to-archive-the-internet/ The Library works with organizations around the world to preserve the web. Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:57:29 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/what-skills-does-a-digital-archivist-or-librarian-need/ The digital age is driving a demand for employees who are comfortable and creative with technology. Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:56:51 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/similarity-breeds-confusion-%E2%80%93-the-challenge-of-finding-music/ The importance of metadata in finding digital music. Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:24:56 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/transferring-libraries-of-congress-of-data/ How do you measure a "Library of Congress" worth of data? Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:24:26 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/how-do-you-find-training-on-digital-preservation/ The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education initiative national calendar of digital preservation courses. Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:03:29 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/make-it-work/ A preview of the upcoming NDSA/NDIIPP Partners meeting in July 2011. Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:02:56 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/digital-time-capsules/ If you wanted to create a digital time capsule, how would you ensure that it is usable in twenty or fifty or more years? Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:21:23 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/facing-off-with-digital-preservation-policy/ The hard issues underlining digital preservation policy development. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:04:41 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/whither-digital-video-preservation/ What’s the best digital video file format for preservation? Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:04:09 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/exploring-cultural-heritage-collections-with-recollection/ Recollection lets digital curators create easy to navigate web interfaces to their cultural heritage collections. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:03:35 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/when-i-go-away-getting-your-digital-affairs-in-order/ An industry of services is growing for online memorials and digital estate planning. Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:18:28 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/panel-explores-educational-alignment-in-digital-management-and-curation/ A May meeting in Tallinn, Estonia helps to build strategic collaborations to preserve the world’s collective digital cultural memory. Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:39:12 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/save-our-african-american-treasures-dallas/ The Smithsonian is building a National Museum of African American History and Culture from the ground up, and NDIIPP is helping. Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:17:04 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/1000-years-give-or-take-a-few-of-digital-mapping/ An overview of geospatial preservation efforts at the Library. Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:43:49 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/the-first-decade-of-web-archiving-at-the-library-of-congress/ Eleven years ago, the Library of Congress established a pilot web archiving project to preserve at-risk born digital content for future generations. Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:07:57 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/steven-puglia-connecting-digital-conversion-with-digital-preservation/ To have a complete picture of digital preservation, it helps to look at other activities that have a very real impact – digital conversion being a good example. Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:07:23 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/bringing-sunlight-to-state-government-legal-information/ OpenGovernment Minnesota is bringing enhanced access to digital legislative resources. Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:37:19 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/digital-pioneer-andrea-goethals/ Goethals, Digital Preservation and Repository Services Manager at the Harvard University Library, has been active in digital repository and format registry activity. Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:14:01 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/linked-open-data-a-beckoning-paradise/ Imagine an internet where every single webpage interconnects to other related information. Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:13:30 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/putting-out-a-daily-paper-was-never-a-linear-process/ What does the newspaper production operation look like today? The preservation challenges of digital news. Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:27:51 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/real-solutions-at-open-repositories-2011/ An overview of the Open Repositories conference, which was recently held in Austin, Texas from June 6-11. Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:27:23 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/turning-the-clock-forward/ Sharing lessons learned from the 2003 project called the Archive Ingest and Handling Test. Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:44:59 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/demand-side-economics-and-digital-preservation/ Economic sustainability is a key issue for digital preservation. Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:44:28 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/a-meeting-of-the-minds-for-udfr/ The Unified Digital Formats Registry looks to provide online access and open information sharing for the entire range of digital format information. Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:43:58 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/it-data-and-hockey-what-do-they-have-in-common/ What do you get when you fill a room full of people interested in social sciences and technology? Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:40:26 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/insights-interview-with-david-rosenthal/ Insights features conversations with NDSA members working on projects related to preservation, access and stewardship of digital information. We kick off the series with an interview with eminent computer scientist and engineer David Rosenthal. Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:59:15 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/digital-archaeology-on-display/ Some key examples of the early web are not in any archive. Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:00:12 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/preserving-digital-public-television/ Fast forward to the present, and we see that digital technology has radically transformed the nature of television program production. Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:59:31 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/confessions-of-an-imperfect-personal-digital-archivist/ Even for professionals it's a challenge to keep and maintain digital materials. Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:15:17 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201106.pdf In this issue: <br>*The Library of Congress digital preservation program now blogs - "The Signal" launched on May 31! <br>*What do teenagers know about digital preservation? More than you think.... <br>*The National Digital Stewardship Alliance elects Coordinating Committee <br>*Digital Preservation and Jazz are alike - find out why <br>*The International Internet Preservation Consortium hold 2011 general assembly meeting <br>*A profile of NDSA member organization American Society of Media Photographers <br>*Learn about the World Digital Library Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:46:15 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/index.html Cal Lee, Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Bob Horton, the State Archivist at the Minnesota Historical Society, will talk about the Preserving State Government Information initiative. When: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 1:00 p.m. <br>Where: Dining Room A, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:25:27 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/a-fine-view-at-the-summit-of-jp2/ May 2011 JPEG2000 summit at the Library. Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:55:11 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/personal-archiving-in-the-cloud/ Caring for your personal digital files and online backup storage are explored. Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:54:39 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/eight-years-of-web-archiving-one-week-in-the-hague/ The Internet is a vast utility shared across borders and cultures–a resource like no other. Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:32:36 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/digital-forensics-and-digital-preservation/ There is an increased use of digital forensics tools in the appraisal and processing of born-digital collections. Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:56:40 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/ndiipp-junior-fellows-on-the-job/ The conclusion of May marked a significant event here at the Library of Congress—the arrival of the 2011 Junior Fellow interns. Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:55:59 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/communication-team-spreads-the-word/ Every once in awhile at "The Signal" blog we will feature the work of staff members to highlight what’s going on "behind the scenes" in NDIIPP. Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:23:48 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/digital-preservation-jazz/ Saving digital information is a lot like jazz — it is creative, diverse, and collaborative. Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:32:01 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/partner-profile-american-society-of-media-photographers/ The American Society of Media Photographers is a trade organization whose members create works primarily for publication. Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:30:18 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/what-do-teenagers-know-about-digital-preservation-actually-more-than-you-think/ It’s many adults’ worst nightmare: how to entertain and (try to) educate thirty 8th graders for an hour? Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:29:46 GMT http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/05/a-blog-about-saving-bits/ New NDIIPP blog will discuss digital stewardship in a way that is informative and appealing. Tue, 31 May 2011 21:35:41 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/ndiipp_meetings/ndiipp11/index.html Make It Work: Improvisations on the stewardship of digital information <br> <br>July 19-21, 2011 <br>Washington, DC <br>Registration information coming soon. <br> <br>Despite the grand challenges associated with building and using digital collections in an ever-changing environment, digital stewards are making it work. Join the thinkers and makers who are solving problems for their communities at the annual NDIIPP/NDSA partners meeting. <br> <br>The program will feature a keynote address by Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media. Other speakers include Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of "The Googlization of Everything" and Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter. Action-oriented workshops will follow, producing tangible results which will be widely shared. Tue, 24 May 2011 20:56:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110519event_estonia.html A number of countries have embarked on ambitious digital preservation programs at the local and/or national level. The “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation ” Conference will provide a forum in which national preservation programs may share information with each other in order to begin building strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of our collective cultural memory. Fri, 20 May 2011 18:40:36 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110516_news_ndsa_coord_comm.html May 16, 2011 -- The National Digital Stewardship Alliance, an initiative of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, has announced the election of its initial nine-member Coordinating Committee. Mon, 16 May 2011 16:51:49 GMT http://www.loc.gov/podcasts/digitalpreservation/podcast_papenfuse.html Mike Ashenfelder and Bill Lefurgy, from the Library of Congress, talk with Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist of Maryland. Dr. Papenfuse discusses his career, his early success with records databases, creating the first online U.S. state archives, the utility of GPS data, developing a financially self-sustaining repository, the value of folding publicly contributed data into online state records and making government information available online to its citizens. Mon, 16 May 2011 16:51:10 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201105.pdf In this issue: <br>An overview of Personal Archiving Day at the Library of Congress <br>A recap of the Newspaper Archive Summit New reports available: <br>The Center for Research Libraries describes digital newspaper production; and new reports on Preserving Legislative Data Videos from two recent webinars are now available: <br>Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories and a Recollection Workshop <br>Upcoming Conference: IASSIST 2011Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 30 - June 3, 2011. Fri, 06 May 2011 14:56:00 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110505_news_PAD2011.html Who are you going to ask for advice on preserving your personal photographs? Thu, 05 May 2011 19:54:49 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110505_news_ALCTS_webinar.html Many people want to keep their digital photographs, videos and other files as long-term personal and family memories. This is a fairly new challenge, as until recently most personal documentation was in a hard copy or other analog format. <br> <br>To address this need, the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partnered with the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services to present a webinar, "Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories." Thu, 05 May 2011 19:54:10 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110505_news_CRL_report.html The "Preserving News in the Digital Environment: Mapping the Newspaper Industry in Transition" report was produced for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program by a team from the Center for Research Libraries. Thu, 05 May 2011 19:53:13 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110505_news_recollection_recap.html On April 19, 2011 40 people representing government agencies, public libraries and historical societies participated in a free online workshop that demonstrated a free and open Library of Congress-sponsored software platform for creating interfaces to digital collections. Thu, 05 May 2011 19:52:16 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_maes.html May 2011 -- Legal information is at the core of democracy, which means that law librarians bear a great responsibility. They also face a unique digital preservation challenge. Thu, 05 May 2011 19:31:59 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/images/maes_200x236.jpg http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_maes.html 200 236 http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110421_news_archive_summit.html April 21, 2011 -- On April 10-12, scholars, journalists, newspaper publishers, librarians, digital archivists and digital newspaper vendors gathered at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute in Columbia, Missouri, for "The Newspaper Archive Summit: Rescuing orphaned and digital content." <br> <br> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:24:50 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110415_news_mn_reports.html April 15, 2011 -- The legislative data preservation project headed up by the Minnesota Historical Society releases a new batch of white papers. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:27:03 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201104.pdf In this issue: <br>*The Library of Congress generates buzz at the 2011 South By Southwest Music and Media Conference <br>*Learn about how the Library of Congress will celebrate Preservation Week 2011 (April24-20) -- and watch a video preview of the events <br>*Read an overview of Siva Vaidhyanathan's recent talk at the Library of Congress on his book, The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) <br>*News from recent conferences: Computers in Libraries 2011 and Screening for the Future 2011 <br>*A new pilot project focuses on preserving state government legislative information <br>*Upcoming events: NDIIPP will host a free online workshop for digital preservation partners on Recollection, April 19 at 1:00 pm EDT; and Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation conference, Tallinn, Estonia. May 23-25, 2011. <br> Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:25:40 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110407event_recollection_webinar.html April 7, 2011 -- NDIIPP is hosting a free online workshop to demonstrate how to use free Library of Congress-sponsored software to easily create intuitive interfaces to their digital collections. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:14:23 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/2011040_news_sxsw2011.html April 7, 2011 -- For the second year in a row Library of Congress staff from the Copyright Office, the Recorded Sound Section and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program attended the SXSW conferences, sharing information at the trade show and moderating a panel discussion during the music conference. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:12:39 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110407_news_CIL2011.html April 7, 2011 -- The materials libraries and archives collect in the digital age have very different characteristics than the traditional books, journals, papers and manuscripts. Martha Anderson and Abigail Grotke explored the challenges and opportunities in collecting and preserving user-generated content from the web at the Computers and Libraries 2011 conference on March 23, 2011 in Washington, DC. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:11:38 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110406_news_tessella.html April 6, 2011 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is supporting a project to explore a digital archiving solution to promote cost-effective enhanced online access to legislative materials in digital form. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:10:54 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110406_news_spencer_webcast.html April 6, 2011 -- BMS/Chace President and co-founder John Spencer visited the Library on December 17, 2010 for a discussion titled "Preserving Creative America: Collecting Metadata for Recorded Sound." A webcast of the event is now available. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:10:11 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/WDL.html March 2011 - The World Digital Library sounds improbable at first - many nations providing open access to highlights of their cultural history, all in one place. But that's exactly what it is. Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:03:22 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/presweek2011/index.html Pass it On: Personal Archiving Day at the Library of Congress is a free public event taking place on Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will provide information about preserving personal and family photographs in both digital and non-digital form. <br> <br>The event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed. <br> <br>Library staff will be on hand to talk directly with individuals about how to manage and preserve their pictorial treasures. There will also be videos and printed information available. Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:02:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/videos/digipresweek2011/index.html An advanced look at what's in store for the Library's participation in Digital Preservation Week 2011. Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:01:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110328_news_vaidhyanathan.html March 28, 2011 -- University of Virginia Professor of Media Studies and Law Siva Vaidhyanathan jumped right into the controversial legal issues surrounding the Google Books project during a speaking engagement at the Library of Congress on March 25, 2011. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:43:24 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110328_news_PrestoCentre.html March 28, 2011 -- The Library of Congress and its partners were well represented at the Screening for the Future 2011 conference, held March 14-15 in the Netherlands. <br> <br>The conference featured 22 experts speaking on a variety of issues relating to the stewardship of film, video and other audiovisual productions. Topics included digitization, strategies for sustainable funding and preservation, both of analog and digital content. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:41:32 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110309_event_vaidhyanathan.html March 9, 2011 -- University of Virginia Professor of Media Studies and Law Siva Vaidhyanathan questions assumptions in a new book, The Googlization of Everything, examining Google's methods of capturing, storing, and filtering information as well as raising flags about issues of intellectual property and the Google Book program. <br> <br>He will bring the discussion to the Library of Congress in an event sponsored by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:33:00 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201103.pdf In this edition: <br>*"Preserving Our Digital Heritage: The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program 2010 Report" has just been released <br>*An overview of the Personal Digital Archiving Conference <br>*NDIIPP is now on Twitter! Follow us: @ndiipp <br>*A new Library of Congress video looks at America's Young Web Archivists <br>*A profile of Digital Preservation Pioneer Edward Papenfuse <br>*A webcast on a briefing about FDsys and Federal Digital Publications is now available <br>*ARTstor released a Metadata Extraction Tool (EMET) and a final report for the Preserving Digital Still Images project <br>*The Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership adds two new state partners <br>*Upcoming Events: The Library of Congress will be at 2011 South By Southwest, Mar. 14-17 in Austin, Tx; Siva Vaidhyanathan will discuss his new book The Googlization of Everything, Mar. 25 at noon at the Library of Congress; and NDIIPP will present a webinar on Apr.28 at 2pm on the subject of “Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories.” Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:22:26 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110308_news_ndiipp_report.html March 8, 2011 -- After a decade of action working to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations, the Library of Congress has released "Preserving Our Digital Heritage: The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program 2010 Report." Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:21:55 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110303_news_pda_conference.html March 3, 2011 -- Staff from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program attended the Personal Digital Archiving 2011 Conference in San Francisco on February 24-25. Held at the Internet Archive, the meeting aimed to share information and build a practitioner community for ensuring long term access to personal digital information. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:19:43 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110301_news_k12_video.html March 1, 2011 -- The Library of Congress released a new video titled "America's Young Archivists: The K-12 Web Archiving Program," which profiles the web-archiving activities of an eighth-grade class from the James Moran school in Wallingford, CT. Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:42:18 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110301_news_zwaard_briefing.html March 1, 2011 -- "It’s like an all-you-can eat buffet, but all the options are healthy for you," said Kate Zwaard, the Government Printing Office’s Lead Program Planner for Digital Preservation, in a visit to the Library of Congress in late 2010. A webcast of the event is now available. Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:41:01 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110217news_artstor_final_report.html February 17, 2011 -- The Preserving Digital Still Images project, led by the nonprofit organization ARTstor, has released its final report, along with the EMET tool for extracting embedded photographic metadata. Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:52:02 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110216news_geomapp_new_partners.html February 16, 2011 -- The Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership, a multistate partnership exploring ways to expand the capabilities of state governments to provide long-term access to geospatial data, has selected Missouri and Montana from a national invitation for bids to join the partnership as full partner states. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:48:09 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110216news_govdelivery_seminar.html February 16, 2011 -- Staff from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program recently attended a seminar sponsored by GovDelivery, "Drive Mission Initiatives by Directly Connecting to the Public," held in downtown Washington, DC. The seminar featured success stories involving the latest technology tools and projects used by government agencies aimed at connecting with and getting feedback from the public. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:47:12 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_papenfuse.html February 2011 - Maryland has long been at the forefront of technology in providing online access to land and other permanently valuable archival records, thanks in a large part to State Archivist Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse. Papenfuse has a gift for recognizing opportunities and imagining possibilities. Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:18:25 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110209news_duraspace_ceo.html February 9, 2011 -- DuraSpace, a not-for-profit organization providing open source software and services, announced today that Michele Kimpton will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective March 1, 2011. Kimpton is currently the Chief Business Officer of DuraSpace, and formerly the Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation. Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:52:29 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110209event_ala_webinar.html February 9, 2011 -- In conjunction with Preservation Week, the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program will present a webinar on Thursday, April 28, 2011 on the subject of "Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories." Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:51:32 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201102.pdf In this issue: <br>*Two new personal archiving videos are now available <br>*A profile of the National Library of New Zealand's National Digital Heritage Archive <br>*An overview of the new design and updates for the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative website <br>*Findings from a survey on digital preservation training <br>*An overview of a recent meeting on micro-services for digital collections <br>*Announcements: IIPC call for participation for a public event "Out of the Box: Building and Using Web Archive Collections"; the Personal Digital Archiving 2011 Conference is February 24 &amp; 25; NEH Preservation Grants for Smaller Institutions are available. <br>*And mark your calendars - April 24-30, 2011 is Preservation Week! <br> <br>Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/digitalpreservation <br> Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:14:49 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110204event_sxsw_panel.html February 4, 2011 -- For the second year in a row, Library of Congress staff from the Copyright Office, the Recorded Sound Section and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program will participate in the 2011 South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Tx. Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:48:05 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110126_news_fadgi.html January 26, 2011 -- The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative has now released an update and redesign of the website, available at: http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/. Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:00:21 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110126_news_owens.html January 26, 2011 -- Trevor Owens joined the Office of Strategic Initiatives in October, 2010 as digital archivist on the Technical Architecture Team. He will be working on a variety of NDIIPP projects, including Recollection and other projects involving access and discovery components of digital stewardship. Trevor comes to the Library after working for George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media. Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:59:34 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110120_news_timms.html January 21, 2011 -- In October, Liz Timms joined the Office of Strategic Initiatives as an Administrative Specialist in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Timms comes to NDIIPP after 30 years of experience in similar positions elsewhere in the Library. Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:10:36 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110120_news_recollection.html January 21, 2011 -- If you are in the Washington, DC area on Wednesday, January 26, please join us for a short demonstration of a new digital tool, Recollection. National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program staff member Trevor Owens will demonstrate how anyone can use this free Library of Congress-sponsored software to create novel and intuitive interfaces for digital collections. Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:08:10 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110120_news_taylor.html January 21, 2011 -- Nicholas Taylor has joined the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program web archiving staff as an Information Technology Specialist. He comes to NDIIPP after serving as Library Technology Specialist at the Supreme Court of the United States. Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:07:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110113news_dp_training_survey.html January 13, 2011 -- –What do U.S. organizations see as their needs with respect to digital preservation training? How do they handle digital preservation functions now? A new Library of Congress survey provides some answers to these questions. Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:06:34 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110113news_microservices.html January 13, 2011 -- The "Distributed Digital Preservation for Large-Scale Collections: Building Micro-services for the Replication of Content" meeting was held in conjunction with the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2010 Membership Meeting in Washington, DC on Dec. 14, 2010. Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:05:56 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/edge/edge_nlnz.html January 5, 2011 - While the saying "New Zealand is far from everywhere" may be true, distance is not an issue regarding its digital cultural collections and how efficiently the National Library of New Zealand makes them available over the Internet. For a small country (population approximately 4,367,700 as of June 2010), it has made wise choices that have resulted in an exemplary cyberinfrastructure and national digital library. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:17:45 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110105news_ndsaworkshop.html January 5, 2011 -- Members of the new National Digital Stewardship Alliance gathered for a two-day workshop, held December 15-16, 2010 in Washington, DC, to discuss how the NDSA will be structured and function as a collaborative, volunteer organization. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:16:54 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110105news_TreasuresDetroit.html January 5, 2011 -- – For the second time, the Library of Congress participated in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture "Save Our African American Treasures Program." <br> <br>Held November 20, 2010 at the Detroit Public Library in Detroit, Mich., the program offered area residents an opportunity to have conservation and preservation experts help identify and preserve items of historical and cultural significance they brought from their homes. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:16:06 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110104_news_alyea.html January 4, 2011 -- The Library of Congress held Personal Archiving Day on May 10, 2010, in conjunction with the American Library Association's annual Preservation Week. <br> <br>In this video, Peter Alyea, Digital Conservation Specialist, Preservation Reformatting, in the Library of Congress's Music, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound division, offers practical advice on archiving digital audio. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:15:06 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110104_news_memento.html January 4, 2011 -- Memento, an award winning tool developed through a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partnership project, was the subject of a Federal News Radio interview with program director Martha Anderson. Memento was created by a team at Old Dominion University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:13:36 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101229news_article_top10stories.html December 29, 2010 -- Digital preservation made important strides during 2010. These happenings aroused the attention of practitioners and, to the greatest extent yet, the mainstream media. One way to look at this is that greater popular awareness of digital preservation flows from a growing importance of the subject for the work of institutions and the lives of individuals. <br> <br>This list covers events, trends and other developments covered in digitalpreservation.gov stories during 2010. Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:24:34 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101222news_article_DPaward.html December 22, 2010 -- The Memento Project, led by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Old Dominion University, has won the Digital Preservation Award 2010. The award, given by the Institute for Conservation and the Digital Preservation Coalition, and supported by Sir Paul McCartney, celebrates the highest standards worldwide in the field of digital preservation. Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:23:32 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101222news_article_geosummit10.html December 22, 2010 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program convened a variety of experts during November 17 and 18, 2010, to consider issues associated with geospatial data appraisal and selection. Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:21:59 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_kimpton.html December 2010 - Michele Kimpton has played a pivotal role in some of the most significant advances in Internet-related digital preservation. Her contributions have also had an international impact on saved content and the tools used for preservation. Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:20:47 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201012.pdf In this issue: <br>*The Memento Project wins the Digital Preservation Award 2010. <br> <br>*New section of digitalpreservation.gov provides a view NDIIPP partner collections. <br> <br>*News from recent meetings: Preserving Citizen Journalism and Community News in Washington, DC and the Fifth National Congress of Public Libraries in Gijon, Spain. <br> <br>*The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative Audio-Visual Working Group is developing an AV preservation specification. <br> <br>*The JISC-sponsored Digital Preservation listserv reached its 10th anniversary last month. <br> <br>*Read a blog post about a DuraCloud pilot partner testing out the could. <br> <br>*Conference Announcement: Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation, Tallinn, Estonia., May 23-25, 2011. <br> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:40:05 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101213event_spencer_briefing.html NDIIPP Briefing: Preserving Creative America: Collecting Metadata for Recorded Sound <br>Date: Friday, December, 17, 2010 <br>Time: 12:00 noon <br>Place: National Digital Library Learning Center, Madison Building Atrium, Library of Congress <br> <br>As part of the NDIIPP Briefing series, the Library of Congress will host a presentation by John Spencer, president of BMS/Chace . <br> <br>Spencer leads a partnership with NDIIPP exploring the structured collection of audio multitrack metadata, working to create a shareable application that facilitates the gathering of technical and descriptive metadata across multiple roles in the recording process. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:38:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101213news_article_partner_collections.html December 13, 2010 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program website has a new section to provide a high level view of the collections that partners are preserving worldwide. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:37:30 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101206news_article_congressional_sites.html December 6, 2010 -- The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is preserving the political record by capturing websites from the House of Representatives, Senate, congressional committees and related entities. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:36:47 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101206news_article_mxf.html December 6, 2010 -- Two National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program staff members, Carl Fleischhauer and Jimi Jones, recently led a working group focusing on a proposed standard for audio-visual preservation. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:36:09 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101202news_article_ndiipp_spain.html December 2, 2010 -- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program staff member Bill LeFurgy recently traveled to Spain to participate in meetings with public librarians and officials of the National Library of Spain. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:32:34 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101202news_article_citizen_journalism_mtg.html December 2, 2010 -- The number of local and regional newspapers and independent media outlets are shrinking. At the same time, there is a rise in new, Web-based journalism and news sites. Many of these sites include hyperlocal community news, blog aggregators, social media and user generated reporting. Will these new forms of community news have value in the future? Should libraries and archives preserve them much like newspapers and other traditional news sources? <br> <br>The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program organized a two-day workshop, November 3-4, 2010 in Washington, DC, to discuss these issues. The meeting brought together 45 researchers, bloggers, journalists, academics and archivists to address selection and preservation issues concerning community, hyperlocal and citizen journalism and aggregators of news. The meeting built upon discussions at last year’s Preserving Digital News meeting. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:31:56 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101202news_article_10years_jisc.html December 2, 2010 -- Last month, the JISC-sponsored Digital Preservation listserv reached its 10th anniversary, a milestone in the evolution of digital preservation. Today, there are over 1,300 subscribers from over 30 countries. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:31:08 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101201news_article_dlf.html December 1, 2010 -- The Digital Library Federation Fall Forum was held in Palo Alto, CA, November 1 to 3, 2010. Among the presenters were several National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partners and staff from the Library of Congress. <br> <br>Leslie Johnston and Barrie Howard, from the Library of Congress, gave a presentation titled, "Recollection: Sharing and Visualization of Digital Collections." Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:30:12 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101201news_article_nelson.html December 1, 2010 -- The Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives welcomes new staff member, Kris Nelson, who will focus on managing the office's internship program. <br> <br>Previously, Nelson worked in the Library's Copyright division for eight years, where he was a copyright examiner and later a registration specialist for the Performing Arts division, checking claims from people asserting that they wrote the songs they submitted. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:29:17 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101118news_article_video.html November 22, 2010 -- The Library of Congress released a video today featuring a presentation from Personal Archiving Day, held this past May in conjunction with the American Library Association's annual Preservation Week. <br> <br>In this video, Abigail Grotke, web archiving team lead and Gina Jones, digital media project coordinator, both from the Office of Strategic Initiatives' Web Archiving team at the Library of Congress, offer practical advice on preserving web content, such as blogs and websites. Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:36:21 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101116event_gpo_briefing.html NDIIPP Briefing: GPO's Federal Digital Systems (FDsys) <br>Date: Tuesday November 16, 2010 <br>Time: 12:00 noon <br>Place: National Digital Library Learning Center, Madison Building Atrium, Library of Congress <br> <br>November 16, 2010 -- As part of the NDIIPP Briefing series, the Library of Congress will host a presentation by Kate Zwaard, the Government Printing Office's Lead Program Planner for Digital Preservation. Zwaard will discuss how the GPO's Federal Digital Systems (FDsys) is helping the agency meet its mission of preserving and providing access to authentic Federal government information. <br> <br>FDsys forms the backbone of GPO's digital content workflow, giving the agency the tools it needs to preserve and provide access to digital content free from dependence on specific hardware or software. Currently in public beta with select titles, the goal of the agency is to ingest a comprehensive collection of publically available Federal information products. Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:29:13 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201011.pdf In this issue: <br>*PREMIS (metadata) for digital preservation <br>*News from a recent conference (iPRES2010), meetings (International Internet Preservation Consortium), and workshop (Digital Preservation Coalitions) held in Vienna, Austria <br>*Profile of Digital Preservation Pioneer Nancy McGovern <br>*Recaps from a talk by Robert Darnton at the Library of Congress and the Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation meeting <br>*Announcements: CNI Fall Meeting (registration deadline Nov. 12), a new survey about digital preservation education needs, and the Library and Archives Canada Format Registry File Format Guidelines for Preservation and Long-term Access are available online <br> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:27:55 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101101news_article_ipres2010.html November 1, 2010 -- The 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2010) , held September 19-24, in Vienna, Austria, created a space for digital preservation professionals to hear and learn about recent preservation and access projects. Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:23:31 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101101news_article_jones.html November 1, 2010 -- In September, Barrett Jones joined the Office of Strategic Initiatives Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program. He comes to the Library of Congress from the International Monetary Fund where he headed the training team at the IMF library. Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:56:14 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101029news_article_dpoe_survey.html October 29, 2010 -- The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education initiative is an NDIIPP partner whose mission is to foster a national network of education programs for digital preservation. <br> <br>DPOE is conducting a survey of digital preservation training needs. The results of this survey will be used to develop course content and delivery options for digital preservation education. Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:55:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101029news_article_ncgdap_report.html October 29, 2010 -- The North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project, one of the original National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program projects, has released its final report. Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:54:12 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101027news_article_darton.html October 27, 2010 -- Robert Darnton, historian and director of the Harvard University libraries, spoke at the Library of Congress on October 15, 2010, on a topic explored in his recent work, The Case for Books: Past, Present and Future. Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:41:13 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101027news_article_coalitions_workshop.html October 27, 2010 -- Four digital preservation network organizations hosted a workshop on national initiatives during the 2010 iPres Conference in Vienna, Austria, on September 23, 2010. Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:40:37 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101027news_article_iipc_vienna.html October 27, 2010 -- Members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium participated in productive working group meetings in Vienna, Austria, September 23-24, 2010. Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:39:57 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101021news_article_storage.html October 25, 2010 -- Digital storage users and providers from a variety of cultural and research institutions met for two days of presentations and discussions as part of a continuing initiative to find and develop common understandings and possible solutions to common problem sets. <br> <br>The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program sponsored the Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation meeting, held on September 27-28, 2010, in Washington DC. Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:29:43 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101021news_article_podcast.html October 21, 2010 -- The latest NDIIPP podcast features Adam Farquhar, Head of Digital Library Technology at the British Library. Farquhar co-founded the British Library’s Digital Preservation Team and was a lead architect on the Library's Digital Object Management system. Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:28:42 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/premis.html October 2010 - Behind every digital object, there is usually metadata with descriptive information about the object. But the library world is all too aware that metadata for access and discovery is no longer enough. Now, digital library professionals are looking to the future with an eye towards preservation, not only needing to preserve the digital objects themselves but also the valuable metadata that goes along with it. <br> <br>Enter PREMIS, which stands for Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies. Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:54:25 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_mcgovern.html October 2010 - Nancy McGovern has been involved in the preservation of digital content since the mid-1980s when she began working with electronic records at the U.S. National Archives. <br> <br>Since then, she has been responsible for the preservation of digital content of all kinds, including digital archives, digital library collections, and research data. During that time, she has actively tracked the emergence of the digital preservation field with an increasingly comprehensive set of standards and practices as new content types require new or enhanced strategies. Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:17:25 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201010.pdf In this issue: <br>*Highlights from Best Practices Exchange 2010 <br>*The Library of Congress participates in a public event, "Save Our African American Treasures," to offer advice about preserving personal digital collections <br>*Two NDIIPP-supported projects recently released software tools that can assist digital preservation practitioners and researchers: MozillaFox and the PeDALS Email Extractor for Outlook <br>*A recap of a recent Smithsonian Institution forum, "Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration" <br>*2010 Digital Preservation Award shortlist announced <br>*ContextMiner, a tool free tool that enables users to collect links to blogs and online videos, wins an award for Best Political Science Website or Software <br>*Upcoming Fall Events: DLF Fall Forum, Reimagining the Archive Symposium, the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, and CNI Fall 2010 Meeting <br> Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:22:13 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101008news_article_bpe2010.html October 8, 2010 -- The Best Practices Exchange, an annual gathering of state archivists, librarians and others with an interest in the preservation of government digital information, held its fifth annual meeting September 28-October 1 in Phoenix, Az. A special focus of the meeting was upon the four Library of Congress state government information projects supported under the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:18:28 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101005news_article_lams.html October 5, 2010 -- The Smithsonian Institution hosted Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration on September 20-21 in Washington, DC. The OCLC Research and RLG Partnership planning committee organized the meeting, which was an outgrowth of previous OCLC work focusing on the convergence of libraries, archives and museums. Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:03:18 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20101005news_article_lams_session.html October 5, 2010 -- While collaboration among libraries, archives and museums has taken place for some time, challenges remain on the path to success. <br> <br>This topic generated a great deal of insightful discussion at Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration, a recent meeting hosted at the Smithsonian Institution. Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:02:39 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/2010098news_article_dpc_award.html September 28, 2010 -- The Institute of Conservation and the Digital Preservation Coalition recently announced the shortlist for the prestigious Digital Preservation Award 2010. Several NDIIPP-supported projects have made the list. Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:01:52 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100924news_article_context-miner.html September 24, 2010 -- The American Political Science Association has awarded ContextMiner -- created as part of the NDIIPP VidArch project -- the 2010 Information Technology &amp; Politics award for Best Political Science Website or Software. Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:01:14 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100924news_article_mementofox.html September 24, 2010 -- For those who use the Mozilla Firefox browser, you now have the option to time travel through the web. MementoFox is a free extension that users can add-on to their browsers. Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:00:30 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100924news_article_pedals_email_tool.html September 24, 2010 -- The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System research project has recently released an open source software tool that extracts email, attachments and other objects from Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) files, converting messages into XML. Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:26:59 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100914news_article_african-american-treasure.html September 14, 2010 -- The Library of Congress participated in Save Our African American Treasures , which was held in Topeka, Kan., during August 14-15. The National Museum of African American History and Culture sponsored the public event to offer advice about preserving personal collections. Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:17:57 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201009.pdf In this issue: <br>*The Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership engages industry at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference <br>*Abbie Grotke of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Web Archiving Team talks about web archiving projects at the Library of Congress <br>*A new video in the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Video Series is available: "Physical and Digital Preservation of the Waldeseemuller Map" <br>*David Brunton of the Library of Congress Repository Development Center talks about software development activities <br>*The European Planets project is featured in the latest "On the Leading Edge" profile <br>*A recent Computerworld article examined some of the issues surrounding archival storage <br> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:48:16 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100910news_article_web_archiving.html September 10, 2010 -- Abbie Grotke knows her history—including the correct expectations for social behavior in years gone by. As Miss Abigail, her advice-dealing Internet avatar, Grotke doles out wisdom on such important topics as personal grooming, how to clean house without creasing one’s dress and how to properly entertain a beau’s parents. <br> <br>Today, she's is the newly appointed team leader of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Web Archiving Team, which is working to build "a Library-wide understanding and technical infrastructure for capturing Web content." Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:47:07 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100910news_article_RDC.html September 10, 2010 -- "Every function of a contemporary library is mediated by software," says David Brunton, supervisory information technology specialist at the Library of Congress Repository Development Center. Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:37:49 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100908news_article_summer_interns.html September 8, 2010 -- With the days getting noticeably shorter and the hint of fall weather approaching, the 2010 summer interns at the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program have wrapped up their duties. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:41:23 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100908news_article_waldseemuller.html September 8, 2010 -- The latest video in the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Video Series compares preservation of the Waldseemuller Map with preservation of its digital copies. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:40:08 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100902news_article_computerworld.html September 2, 2010 -- News stories frequently address the amount of digital data we generate on a daily, monthly and yearly basis and how organizations, institutions and individuals will manage and save that data now or in the future. Storage of that data for long-term preservation and access is a persistent challenge for digital archives. <br> <br>A recent Computerworld article examined some of the issues surrounding archival storage and the large quantities of digital data generated. Partners and staff from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program were interviewed for the article and they highlighted some current issues with external media storage and how some organizations are preparing for the future. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:25:49 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100825news_article_gillmor.html August 25, 2010 -- When it comes to thinking about preserving born-digital news articles and information, "My mind almost explodes when I consider the issues," writes Dan Gillmor. <br> <br>Gillmor, the Director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, is doing more than considering the issues: he is actively engaged with the Library of Congress in exploring how to address them. He participated in the "Preserving Digital News" experts workshop at the Library in 2009, and also served on a panel during the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program annual meeting on July 20-22. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:25:01 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100818news_article_ciesin_survey.html August 17, 2010 -- The Library of Congress and Columbia University are continuing with their work on a web-based clearinghouse of information about best practices for preserving significant geospatial data. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:24:01 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100818news_article_esri_international.html August 17, 2010 -- The Library of Congress and its partners had a strong presence at the ESRI International User Conference, held from July 12-16, 2010 in San Diego, CA. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:23:17 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201008.pdf In this issue: <br>*News from the 2010 NDIIPP Partners Meeting, held July 20-22, in Arlington, Va. <br>*The Library of Congress launches the National Digital Stewardship Alliance <br>*New videos available from the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Video Series: "Why Digital Preservation is Important to You" and "Archiving Digital Photos" <br>*Internet Archive issues the latest release of its web archiving service application, Archive-It <br>*Read about Jenn Riley, metadata librarian at Indiana University, and the Visualization of the Metadata Universe inforgraphic <br>*Calls for Proposals for: the 2010 DLF Forum and Archiving 2011 <br>*Upcoming September 2010 events: Yours, Mine Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration; iPres2010; IIPC Working Group Meetings; and the Digital Preservation Coalitions Workshop <br> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:07:17 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100809news_article_partners_meeting10.html August 9, 2010 -- The digital age offers a new challenge—and a new opportunity—for cultural heritage organizations to build a national information patrimony to support knowledge and creativity. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington delivered this message to attendees at the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partners meeting, held July 20-22 in Arlington, Va. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:43:06 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100809news_article_GW_presentation.html August 9, 2010 -- The Library of Congress is actively exploring development of open-source software for supporting digital stewardship activities. Leslie Johnston, manager of Technical Architecture Initiatives for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, spoke on this subject at George Washington University on July 15, 2010. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:42:31 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100809news_article_AALL.html August 9, 2010 -- A title like "Beyond Wayback: Preserving Born-Digital Ephemera," might mystify most, but it was a magnet for attendees at the American Association of Law Libraries annual conference in Denver, CO, on July 12. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:41:56 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/ndsa.html August 9, 2010 -- The Library of Congress has formed the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, a partnership of institutions and organizations dedicated to preserving and providing access to selected databases, web pages, video, audio and other digital content with enduring value. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:44:37 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100726_news_article_video.html July 26, 2010 -- The Library of Congress has released a new video, titled "Why Digital Preservation is Important to You," that addresses the challenge of personal digital archiving. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:43:34 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100726news_article_archive-it.html July 26, 2010 -- Kristine Hanna, the director of web archiving services at the Internet Archive, has no illusions about the nature of web content. "One of our favorite expressions is, 'the web is a mess,'" she laughed. "It truly is, and it's not getting any better. We have these librarians and archivists who are interested in highly curated collections of born-digital content. So, the question is, how do we get from 'the web is a mess' to highly curated collections?" Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:42:54 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100726news_article_infographic.html July 26, 2010 -- For librarians and archivists, choosing among myriad metadata standards for digital content can be an overwhelming task. <br> <br>Jenn Riley, metadata librarian in the Indiana University Digital Library Program, has created a Visualization of the Metadata Universe infographic as a tool to help put the immense list of metadata standards into a more orderly and contextualized setting. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:42:06 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100726news_article_howard.html July 26, 2010 -- Barrie Howard is the newest staff member of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, where he will have extensive project management responsibilities. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:40:14 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100726_news_article_file_formats.html July 26, 2010 -- The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative is a collaborative effort to define common guidelines, methods and practices to digitize historical content. The initiative considers two groups of content: still images and audio-visual materials. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:39:38 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201007.pdf In this issue: <br>*Read about the second "I" in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program <br>*Digital Preservation Pioneer Julie Sweetkind-Singer <br>*A new report from the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation, "A Future for Our Digital Memory" <br>*A recent visit with some Wallingford, Connecticut middle-school web archivists is profiled <br>*News from recent meetings: a Data Conservancy project briefing at the Library of Congress and a National Research Council Board of Research Data and Information symposium <br>*Jimi Jones joins the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives <br>*Upcoming Events: Digital Preservation Coalitions Workshop, Sept. 23, 2010, in conjunction with iPRES 2010 in Vienna and The Best Practices Exchange 2010, Sept.29-Oct. 1 in Phoenix, Arizona. <br> Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:55:41 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100716_news_article_tadic.html July 16, 2010 -- In the latest Library of Congress Digital Preservation podcast, Linda Tadic offers practical solutions for archiving and preserving digital video. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:53:48 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_singer.html Julie Sweetkind-Singer is at the forefront of digital geospatial information preservation. She served as co-principal investigator for the National Geospatial Digital Archive, one of the original National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partnerships. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:55:09 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100623news_article_NCDD.html June 23, 2010 -- The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation issued a new report on June 9, 2010, A Future for Our Digital Memory: strategic agenda for long-term access to digital resources, which lays out a three-year strategic agenda. The organization works as a catalyst within the Netherlands to develop technologies and best practices for long-term digital preservation. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:29:24 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100623news_article_BRDISymposium.html June 23, 2010 --What role should libraries play in the long-term preservation, management and provision of scientific data? As both data volume and use climb, a growing number of researchers, administrators and librarians are pondering this question. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:28:16 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100623news_article_Data_Conservancy.html June 23, 2010 -- The Data Conservancy project seeks to develop the means to curate huge amounts of scientific data. A key part of the vision is to make data available to researchers in their quest to meet "grand research challenges that face society." Sayeed Choudhury, project principal investigator and associate dean for Library Digital Programs at Johns Hopkins University, talked about the effort at the Library of Congress on June 7, 2010. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:27:40 GMT http://www.loc.gov/ala/ The American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition is June 24-29, 2010. Visit the Library of Congress Exhibit Booth #3751 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center External Link (801 Mount Vernon Place NW, Washington, D.C. 20001). Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:23:55 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100617news_article_jones.html June 16, 2010 -- The Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives is happy to welcome Jimi Jones to its staff. Serving as an Audio Visual Information Technology Specialist, Jones brings to the position valuable education and experience. Even more, Jones brings a necessary passion for digital preservation. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:22:18 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100610news_article_moran.html June 15, 2010 -- Staff from the Library of Congress traveled from Washington, DC to the James H. Moran Middle School in Wallingford, Connecticut, to visit and interview the teacher and students who contributed content to the K-12 Web Archiving program during the autumn of 2009. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:20:20 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100610news_article_ndiipp_infrastructure.html June 10, 2010 -- Leslie Johnston recently joined NDIIPP as manager of technical architecture initiatives and has a fresh perspective on the program’s infrastructure work. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:19:37 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100610news_article_arrington_podcast.html June 10, 2010 -- Creating digital versions of historical collections is frequently talked about, but how does it actually work at the Library of Congress? Kit Arrington discussed this very topic in a Preservation Technology podcast on June 2, 2010, with Kevin Ammons of the National Park Service National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:18:30 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100610news_article_forensics_meeting.html June 10, 2010 --Computer forensics techniques—those used in criminal investigations—are increasingly relevant to cultural heritage institutions that collect digital content. <br> <br>These considerations helped inspire the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities to hold the Computer Forensics and Cultural Heritage meeting on May 14-15, 2010. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:17:49 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100610news_article_iipc_singapore.html June 10, 2010 -- Over 50 leaders in web archiving from over 30 countries met at the National Library Board, Singapore for the seventh annual General Assembly meeting of the International Internet Preservation Consortium. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:16:31 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100607event_bpe2010.html June 7, 2010 -- The Best Practices Exchange 2010 will be held in Phoenix, AZ from September 29-October 1, 2010. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:15:40 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201006.pdf In this issue: <br>*Personal Archiving Day at the Library of Congress <br>*The Library of Congress and Columbia University will create a geospatial data preservation clearinghouse <br>*The Data-PASS Alliance receives IMLS grant for tools support <br>*A report about The British Library's "Digital Lives Project" <br>*The Planets Project deposits a digital "genome" in a time capsule in Switzerland <br>*Read about the CDL Repository Development Project <br>*New reports available: The National Conference of State Legislatures published a report, “Preserving Digital Legislative Records" and the Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership released an interim report <br>*The Library of Congress will be at ALA in Washington, DC - June 25-29, 2010. <br> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:20:01 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100602event_SayeedChoudhury.html June 2, 2010 -- Sayeed Choudhury , the associate dean for Library Digital Programs at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University, will provide an overview of the Data Conservancy at the Library of Congress on June 7, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. in the National Digital Library Learning Center, Madison Building Atrium, in Washington, DC. <br> <br>The Data Conservancy is one of two initial awards through the National Science Foundation's DataNet Program. The Data Conservancy embraces a shared vision: data curation is not an end, but rather a means to collect, organize, validate and preserve data to address grand research challenges. <br> <br>For information about visiting the Library, go to www.loc.gov/visit/. Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:15:20 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100602news_article_geospatial_clearinghouse.html June 2, 2010 --The Library of Congress and Columbia University have agreed to create a web-based clearinghouse of information about best practices for preserving significant geospatial data. The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program will fund development of the clearinghouse at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia’s Earth Institute. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:46:26 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100527news_article_geomapp_interim_report.html May 27, 2010 -- The Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership, one of four projects supported by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s Preserving State Government Information initiative, has released an interim report which documents their work from 2007-2009. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:45:16 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100527news_article_CDL_merritt.html May 27, 2010 -- The University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library is developing a new digital preservation repository. Known as the Merritt Project, after a lake near the CDL offices, the new repository development effort is based on a set of "curation micro-services" created at the center. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:40:18 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100527news_article_planets.html May 27, 2010 --What would be the digital-age equivalent of the Rosetta Stone? The partners of the Planets project (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) have just taken their best guess. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:39:23 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100527news_article_IEEE.html May 27, 2010 -- The theme of the 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies was "The Crisis in Massive Storage — Solutions or Calamities?" Speakers addressed ideas for bridging the gap between what computers can do and the ability to keep data available. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:38:45 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100527news_article_datapass_imls.html May 27, 2010 -- The Institute of Museum and Library Services has generously supported members of the Data-PASS Alliance through an award to develop a policy-based archival replication system for libraries, archives and museums. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:38:03 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100519news_article_personal_archiving_day.html May 19, 2010 -- On May 10, 2010 the Library of Congress held its first Personal Archiving Day to help people keep their personal information, whether in analog or digital form. About 200 people visited with Library staff at to get expert suggestions for preserving photographs, documents, recorded sound and other material. Thu, 20 May 2010 17:08:00 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100519news_article_gordon_bell.html May 19, 2010 -- Computing pioneer Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research made a recent visit to the Library to talk about the MyLifeBits project . Thu, 20 May 2010 17:06:38 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100513news_article_nascio.html May 13, 2010 -- State Chief Information Officers play a critical role in managing the digital assets of state governments. The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program has worked closely with state CIOs, and the National Association of State Chief Information Officers is a partner in the Library’s Preserving State Government Information Initiative. Thu, 20 May 2010 17:05:31 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201005.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*New media responds to news that Twitter is donating its digital archive of public tweets to the Library <br> <br>*The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is now on Facebook <br> <br>*Read about the Library of Congress at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Tx <br> <br>*Digital Preservation Pioneer Patricia Cruse is profiled <br> <br>*News from recent meetings: the Preserving Virtual Worlds project meeting and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's U.S. workshop to launch a digital preservation roadmap <br> <br>*New state partners - Alabama and New Mexico - join the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System research project <br> <br>*The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access is offering new grants <br> <br>*Take a survey for the JHOVE2 project <br> <br>*The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive releases a third report on link rot <br> Wed, 12 May 2010 15:14:38 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100511news_article_ncsl.html May 11, 2010 --The National Conference of State Legislatures has published a report, "Preserving Digital Legislative Records," a publication written with the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories in mind. Tue, 11 May 2010 16:59:46 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100511news_article_greer.html May 11, 2010 -- Chris Greer, Assistant Director for Information Technology Research and Development in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, is featured in a new NDIIPP Digital Preservation podcast. Tue, 11 May 2010 16:58:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100506news_article_facebook.html May 6, 2010 -- Do you like NDIIPP? If so, you now have a chance to show it by "liking" the new National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Facebook page on Facebook. Fri, 07 May 2010 21:05:19 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100428news_article_NEH_grants.html April 28, 2010 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access is offering new grants under its Research and Development program. These grants will support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. Mon, 03 May 2010 15:28:03 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100428event_GordonBell.html April 28, 2010 -- Gordon Bell , principal researcher in Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley Research Group, will speak at the Library of Congress on May 5, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. in the National Digital Library Learning Center, Madison Building Atrium, in Washington, DC. Mon, 03 May 2010 15:27:24 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/presweek2010/ Memories should last a lifetime and be passed on to future generations. Advice on how to safeguard precious digital and traditional photos, documents, recordings and more will be presented at Pass It On: Personal Archiving Day at the Library of Congress. <br> <br>Library staff will discuss practical strategies for preserving personal collections from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, May 10, 2010 in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed. <br> <br>The Library’s preservation experts will talk directly with individuals about managing their materials in all formats—everything from e-mail to home movies to digital photographs and recorded sound. For security reasons, visitors are asked not to bring their collection materials to the Library; no appraisals will be provided. For information about visiting the Library, go to www.loc.gov/visit/. <br> <br>Pass It On: Personal Archiving Day at the Library of Congress celebrates the first national Preservation Week (May 9-15), www.ala.org/preservationweek/. It is sponsored by Library of Congress, the American Library Association (ALA), the Institute for Museum and Library Services and partner organizations. This joint initiative highlights libraries and other collecting institutions as good sources of preservation information. <br> <br>The Library of Congress’ Personal Archiving Day is co-sponsored by the Library’s Office of Strategic Initiatives and Library Services. <br> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:50:43 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100416news_article_twitter_archive.html April 16, 2010 -- On April 14, Library of Congress Director of Communications Matt Raymond blogged and tweeted news that Twitter is donating its digital archive of public tweets to the Library. The response from the world of new media — blogs, tweets and news websites — was immediate and huge. Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:49:52 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100416news_article_NIST_roadmap.html April 16, 2010 -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology launched an effort to establish a digital preservation roadmap. Aiming to develop an interoperability framework, NIST convened a U.S. workshop March 29-31 in Gaithersburg, MD. Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:49:08 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201004.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*Another release in the Digital Preservation Video Series, "Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone" <br> <br>*Recent news articles about the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative and Birth of the Dot-Com Era Project <br> <br>*A report on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access Symposium, held April 1 in Washington, DC <br> <br>*JHOVE2 Prototype released to the digital preservation community <br> <br>*Read about the e-Depot project at The National Library of the Netherlands <br> <br>*Listen to a new podcast in the Library of Congress "Conversations about Digital Preservation" series with Babak Hamidzadeh, director of repository development at the Library of Congress <br> <br>*The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records has developed an automated process to preserve official e-mail records <br> <br>*North Carolina Partners share project findings at the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, DC <br> <br>*Director of Program Management, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Martha Anderson will provide a keynote at the 1st International Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework Symposium in Dresden, Germany, April 21-23 <br> <br>*"Pass It On: Personal Archiving Day at the Library of Congress," a public event, will be held May 10, 2010 <br> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:03:25 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100408news_article_BRTF_symposium.html April 8, 2010 -- A central question confronts everyone who cares about digital stewardship: how to pay for it? Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:01:57 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100407news_article_sxsw.html April 7, 2010 -- The 24th Annual South by Southwest film, interactive and music conference (SXSW) was held in Austin, Texas from March 12th to 21st, with the Library of Congress participating during the Music and Media Conference. Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:01:20 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100401news_article_PEDALS_partners.html April 1, 2010 -- The newest partners in the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System research project are quickly seeing practical results. <br> <br>In five short months, archivists and electronic-records managers from Alabama and New Mexico have set up computer hardware, collaborated on plans and policies for public websites, trained programmers and run tested preservation strategies. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:14:43 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100401news_article_JHOVE2_prototype.html April 1, 2010 -- California Digital Library, along with partners Portico and Stanford University, have released an alpha version of JHOVE2 to the digital preservation community. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:14:03 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100331news_article_video.html April 1, 2010 -- The latest Library of Congress video, titled "Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone," is a high-level overview about how digital media is essentially different from traditional media and has different requirements for its preservation. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:13:23 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100331news_article_podcast.html April 1, 2010 -- Babak Hamidzadeh, director of repository development at the Library of Congress, is featured in a new Library of Congress "Conversations about Digital Preservation" podcast. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:12:00 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100322news_article_PVW.html March 26, 2010 -- The Preserving Virtual Worlds project team met recently in Palo Alto, CA. Participants discussed the project’s many results which touch upon how institutions could collect and preserve virtual worlds like Second Life and highly complex multi-player video games. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:53:17 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100325news_article_ChronopolisWebex.html March 26, 2010 --The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program sponsored a web conference about recent developments with the Chronopolis Project. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:52:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100325news_article_FCW.html March 26, 2010 -- Federal Computer Week recently did a story that discusses how the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative is helping government agencies preserve audio-visual information. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:51:47 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/edge/edge_kb.html The National Library of the Netherlands is a small institution that plays a large role in the world of digital preservation. The library (known in Dutch as the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and more commonly as the KB) is a leader in supporting practical approaches to preservation through research and collaboration. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:21:26 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100319news_article_dotcom_perspective.html March 19, 2010 --David Kirsch, leader of the Birth of the Dot-Com Era Project, provided some historical analysis for two recent news stories. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:45:13 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100318news_article_PEDALS_update.html March 18, 2010 -- The Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records has developed an automated process to preserve official e-mail records produced by Microsoft Outlook. The process also captures metadata needed for the long-term preservation of the information. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:44:20 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100312news_article_geomapp_esri.html March 12, 2010 -- Representatives from the Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership reached out to federal geospatial information users with a presentation during the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, DC in February. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:43:34 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100312news_article_portico_website.html March 12, 2010 -- Portico, a not-for-profit digital archiving service for the publishing and library communities, has launched a new website, www.portico.org. <br> <br>The site provides extensive information about Portico holdings, which include e-journals, e-books, and digital collections. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:42:52 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100312news_article_ASB10.html March 12, 2010 --The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program again hosted two interns as part of the University of Michigan, School of Information Alternative Spring Break Program. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:41:47 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201003.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*The Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter marks its second anniversary. Please take a 5 minute survey and tell us what you think about the Newsletter. <br> <br>*Profile of Digital Preservation Pioneer Robert Horton <br> <br>*New reports: The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has issued a final report, "Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet;" and The Preserving Digital Public Television Project has released the report, "Strategies for Sustainable Preservation of Born Digital Public Television". <br> <br>*Members of the MetaArchive Cooperative published, "A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation." <br> <br>*Read about a recent meeting of a project working to explore enhanced access to legislative digital records <br> <br>*The National Endowment for the Humanities offers Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions <br> <br>*Leslie Johnston joins the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program <br> <br>*Upcoming March Events: the Library of Congress at South by Southwest Music and Media Conference; National Institute of Standards and Technology holds a U.S. Workshop on the Roadmap Development for Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework; and Chronopolis hosts a WebEx demonstration Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:30:56 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100308event_ChronopolisWebex.html March 8, 2010 -- Chronopolis, a grid-based archival digital preservation solution, will host a WebEx session on Friday, March 19 at 1:30 p.m. EST (10:30 a.m. PST). <br> <br>The session will showcase Chronopolis’s comprehensive tools and services for ingest, storage, geographic replication and data monitoring. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:29:33 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100304news_article_BRTF_report.html March 4, 2010 -- The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has issued a final report, Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:28:21 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100304news_article_DPP_guide.html March 4, 2010 -- Members of the MetaArchive Cooperative have written A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation. The guide successfully tackles two important issues for cultural memory organizations. First, it establishes a persuasive argument for a collaborative context in digital preservation. Second, the guide provides practical information about how to protect digital assets. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:27:34 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100304news_article_pdpt_report.html March 4, 2010 - - The Preserving Digital Public Television Project has released the report, Strategies for Sustainable Preservation of Born Digital Public Television. The report is a thorough investigation into the technical, operational and economic requirements for sustainable preservation of file-based television production. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:26:21 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100304news_article_NEH_grants.html March 4, 2010 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced the availability of Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions. These grants help small and mid-sized institutions, such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:25:29 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100301news_article_johnston.html March 1, 2010 -- Leslie Johnston is joining the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program as a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist. She will work with NDIIPP partners and Library of Congress staff to coordinate technical strategy for distributed digital preservation and access initiatives. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:20:58 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100301news_article_itunes.html March 1, 2010 -- The new Library of Congress podcast series of interviews with prominent digital preservation practitioners was recently named a noteworthy podcast at iTunes U. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:20:12 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_horton.html Minnesota State Archivist Bob Horton had his first significant electronic records experience in the early 1990s at boot camp. Camp Pitt was a workshop -– sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission -– on electronic records. Horton credits Camp Pitt for opening his eyes to the possibilities of technology, electronic recordkeeping and access to archival information. After that experience, Horton steered his archival work in the direction of public access to electronic records. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:27:05 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100219news_article_mn_meeting.html February 19, 2010 --The partners from the Model Technological and Social Architecture for the Preservation of State Government Digital Information Project convened on January 20, 2010 in Sacramento, California. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:26:13 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100204event_PreservationWeek.html February 4, 2010 -- The American Library Association is launching its first Preservation Week on May 9 - 15, 2010. The week will highlight "collecting and preservation in your community." <br> <br>The Library of Congress is planning a number of public events, including activities that focus on the long-term management of digital and analog information kept by individuals and families. <br> <br>Information about events at the Library of Congress will be forthcoming. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:52:13 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100204news_article_BRTF_symposium.html February 4, 2010 -- The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access will hold a one-day symposium to discuss the economic challenge of preserving valuable data assets. <br> <br>The symposium will be held April 1, 2010, in Washington, D.C., and will provide a forum for discussing recommendations of the task force final report (forthcoming). Leaders from the Executive Office of the President, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Smithsonian Museum, Nature Magazine, Google and other organizations will participate. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:51:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100204news_article_DPwebinar.html February 4, 2010 -- Library of Congress staff participated in a January 27, 2010 webinar focusing on digital preservation and use of social media. The Bethesda chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association hosted the event as part of their Federal Web 2.0 Webinars series. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:50:35 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201002.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*The Library of Congress explores ways to release open source software <br> <br>*A new feature series on digitalpreservation.gov, "On the Leading Edge," kicks off with a story about DigitalPreservationEurope <br> <br>*View the third release in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation video series - "Digital Natives Explore Digital Preservation" <br> <br>*The International Internet Preservation Consortium released a web archives registry <br> <br>*The Library of Congress presents a new Digital Preservation Podcast Series <br> <br>*News of recent meetings featuring Library of Congress staff: the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners Winter 2010 meeting and a Federal Web 2.0 Webinar <br> <br>*Upcoming Events: The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access one-day symposium on April 1, 2010 and Preservation Week, May 9-15, 2010 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:49:08 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100129news_article_digitalnatives_video.html January 29, 2010 -- Today's teenagers depend on digital information for education and entertainment, but may not know that digital information can easily be lost. What do these "digital natives" think about the permanence – or impermanence – of digital content? <br> <br>"Digital Natives Explore Digital Preservation" is the third release in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program video series. The video features students participating in a recent workshop at the Library of Congress, where staff from NDIIPP and the Educational Outreach Division discussed why digital preservation is important. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:06:56 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100129news_article_webreg.html January 29, 2010 -- The International Internet Preservation Consortium recently released a web archives registry. The registry offers a single point of access to a comprehensive overview of member web archiving efforts and outputs. Twenty-one archives from around the world are currently included; updates will be added as additional archives are made accessible by IIPC members. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:06:07 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100129news_article_podcasts.html January 29, 2010 -- The Library of Congress presents a new podcast series, featuring interviews with prominent digital preservation practitioners and thought leaders. These podcasts offer a chance to hear experts talk about their lessons learned and goals for future projects. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:05:22 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100114news_article_open_source.html January 14, 2010 -- In the spirit of transparency and community, the Library of Congress has established an internal process to create open source software. This will make it easier for software developers and sponsors within the Library to produce software that can be freely redistributed to users worldwide. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:04:41 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100114news_article_leading_edge.html January 14, 2010 -- The Library of Congress is presenting a new series of articles that focus on organizations that are working on innovative approaches to digital preservation and access. Known as "On the Leading Edge," the series kicks off with a story about DigitalPreservationEurope. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:04:01 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100114news_article_ESIP.html January 14, 2010 -- The Winter 2010 meeting of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners featured an extended conversation about keeping valuable geospatial data available over time. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:03:23 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201001.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*The Memento Project describes time travel for the Web <br> <br>*Read about Digital Preservation Pioneer Martin Halbert <br> <br>*The Library of Congress and the changing nature of digital technologies featured in a Voice of America video <br> <br>*The Director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program participated in recent events: The Stewardship of Digital Assets Workshop and the Digital Tools for Information and Democracy Conference <br> <br>*Announcements: Information on the activity and public comments of the "Public Access Policy Forum"; ACM and IEEE award Fran Berman for leadership <br> <br>*Registration is free for the Federal Web 2.0 Webinar: The Library of Congress and Digital Technology, January 27, 2010 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:24:53 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091228news_article_memento.html December 28, 2009 -- What if you could activate a time machine right in your web browser and explore content from a date in the past? Herbert Van de Sompel of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Michael Nelson from Old Dominion University discussed this when they visited the Library of Congress on November 16, 2009, to talk about their newest project, Memento. Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:23:22 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091217news_article_voa.html December 17, 2009 -- A recent video from the Voice of America draws attention to the expanding role of digital materials at the Library of Congress. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:54:02 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091210news_article_JeffersonInstitute.html December 10, 2009 -- The Jefferson Institute in Charlottesville, VA, sponsored Digital Tools for Information and Democracy in November. The conference allowed leaders from digital stewardship, education and journalism to share current experiences and to discuss synergies among the three disciplines. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:29:15 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091210news_article_FLICCWorkshop.html December 10, 2009 -- Martha Anderson, director of program management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, presented at the Stewardship of Digital Assets Workshop, held October 27-28, 2009, at the Library of Congress. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:28:25 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091220news_article_berman.html December 10, 2009 -- The Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society jointly presented the inaugural Ken Kennedy Award to Fran Berman for her leadership in building a national-scale cyberinfrastructure for access, use, curation and preservation of digital data. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:27:15 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200912.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*News of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program's Strategy Meeting for Preserving Geospatial Data <br> <br>*The American Society of Media Photographers launched dpBestflow.org during FotoWeek DC <br> <br>*The "Metadata for Digital Content" group is addressing challenges to improve search of the Library's collections <br> <br>*An NDIIPP project wins Best in Show at ECDL 2009 <br> <br>*Two NDIIPP States Initiative projects add new partners <br> <br>*NDIIPP director delivered the keynote address at the October Digital Preservation Management Workshop in Ann Arbor, Mich. <br> <br>*Free registration for upcoming virtual events: Federal Geographic Data Committee Virtual Forum on the National Place-based Policy (Dec. 9, 2009) and "All About Repositories" webinars (through Jan. 13, 2010) <br> <br>*Cultural Heritage Online Conference: Dec. 15-16, 2009, in Florence, Italy Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:57:04 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091204news_article_Keynote.html December 4, 2009 -- Martha Anderson, director of program management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, delivered the keynote address for the October Digital Preservation Management Workshop in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research hosted the workshop. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:56:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091203news_article_ECDL.html December 4, 2009 -- A National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program project won Best Poster at the 2009 European Conference on Digital Libraries. The project, "Recollection", is a set of tools to create new ways to access and share disbursed digital collections. Zepheira, LLC is working with NDIIPP to develop the tools. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:55:57 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091204event_FGDC_virtual.html Event: Federal Geographic Data Committee Virtual Forum <br> <br>The first in a series of planned virtual forums, the Federal Geographic Data Committee is bringing together federal government geospatial executives to engage in discussion about the development of a national place-based policy that addresses economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability, community health access and safety and security. <br> <br>Date/Time: December 9, 2009 at 1:00-2:00 pm EST <br>Registration (free) is required Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:55:21 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091120event_respositories_webinars.html Webinar Series: "All About Respositories" Webinar Series <br> <br>Sponsored by DuraSpace, SPARC and the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, the "All About Repositories" are designed to provide overviews of best practices, technology updates and key trend analyses for IT managers, digital librarians, repository managers and developers, and curators. <br> <br>Dates: December 16, 2009; January 13 and January 27, 2010 <br>Registration is required Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:54:32 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091120news_article_geospatial_meeting.html November 20, 2009 -- Historians, government officials and data stewards convened for a meeting at the Library of Congress earlier this month to discuss framing a National Preservation and Access Strategy for Geospatial Data. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:53:10 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091120news_article_dpbestflow.html November 20, 2009 -- The American Society of Media Photographers, a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partner, launched dpBestflow.org during FotoWeek DC. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:52:30 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/metadata_digital_content_challenge.html Consistent and rich metadata are needed in order to improve search of the Library of Congress's collections and provide web services that users have come to expect. <br> <br>To address the challenges in this area, the "Metadata for Digital Content" group was formed at the Library in March 2009. This internal, cross-Library group is working towards new solutions, aligning with a goal in the Library’s overall strategic plan to provide better access to digital materials. <br> <br>The MDC group members include catalogers, programmers and digital project managers, and represent different service units of the Library concerned with digital content. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:30:04 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200911.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program receives Government Computer News Award <br> <br>*The second video in the NDIIPP Digital Preservation Video Series is released <br> <br>*News of recent meetings: iPRES2009; the third Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation meeting; International Internet Preservation Consortium's one-day conference; and the Sun-PASIG conference <br> <br>*New partners added to the Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership <br> <br>*Dr. Martin Halbert is the new dean of the University of North Texas Libraries <br> <br>*Registration is open for upcoming events: dpBestflow.org Kick-off in Washington, DC and the Cultural Heritage Online Conference in Florence, Italy <br> <br>*Now available: Proceedings from the 2009 International Web Archiving Workshop and presentation slides and audio recording from the DuraCloud project web conference Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:21:53 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091113news_article_pedals_partners.html November 13, 2009 -- The Alabama Department of Archives and History and the New Mexico Commission of Public Records State Records Center and Archives have joined agencies from Arizona, Florida, New York, South Carolina, and Wisconsin in the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System research project, a project funded through the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s Preserving State Government Information initiative. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:17:50 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091113news_article_MN_video.html November 13, 2009 -- A new video features Minnesota Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher talking about new methods to preserve and provide access to digital records of state legislatures. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:17:12 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091110news_article_IWAW_proceedings.html November 10, 2009 -- The 9th International Web Archiving Workshop, held September 30-October 1, 2009 in conjunction with ECDL2009, highlighted work in preserving virtual worlds, exploring the temporal dimension of web archives and other groundbreaking explorations. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:16:06 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091029news_article_halbert.html October 29, 2009 -- Dr. Martin Halbert started his tenure as dean of the University of North Texas Libraries on October 1, 2009. <br> <br>He previously headed the MetaArchive Project that developed a networked, multi-institution archive of Southern digital culture via a distributed digital preservation network as part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:18:03 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091029event_cultural_online_conference.html Event: Cultural Heritage Online Conference <br>Date: December 15-16, 2009 <br>Location: Florence, Italy <br>Registration is open <br> <br>The Second Cultural Heritage Online Conference aims "to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communitiesand cultural contents on the Web from an international perspective..." Conference participants will include academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, and topics will focus on digital libraries, digital preservation, and cultural heritage materials on the interactive Web, among others. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:16:48 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091029news_article_iPRES.html October 29, 2009 -- The 2009 International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects was held in San Francisco, CA, October 5 and 6. The California Digital Library, a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partner, hosted the meeting, which brought together digital-preservation researchers and practitioners from 70 universities and 33 national libraries, as well as a variety of other interested parties. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:03 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091029news_article_SunPASIG.html October 29, 2009 -- Prominent information technologists from around the world shared their data-preservation experiences at the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group conference in San Francisco during October 7 – 9, 2009. Several National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partners gave presentations, including representatives from the University of North Carolina, Stanford University, University of Michigan, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:08:52 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091029news_article_IIPC.html October 29, 2009 -- The International Internet Preservation Consortium held a conference in San Francisco on October 7, 2009. The one-day conference,"Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content," allowed participants to share their web archiving experiences, collections, infrastructures and workflows. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:04:21 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091019news_GCN_award.html October 26, 2009 -- Government Computer News has named the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program as one of the top federal information technology projects of 2009. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:38:05 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091016news_geomapp_info_partners.html October 16, 2009 -- The Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership announced the addition of 10 informational partners to join with existing partners North Carolina, Kentucky and Utah in exploring the long-term preservation of digital geospatial information. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:07:45 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091016news_geomapp_meeting.html October 16, 2009 -- The pirate mystique is a big part of the history of North Carolina, but when the Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership gathered in Raleigh, NC from September 14-17, they were more interested in preserving than in plundering. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:07:05 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091015news_article_duracloud_update.html October 15, 2009 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program sponsored a web conference about recent developments with the DuraCloud project. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:06:28 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091015news_article_Oct_briefing.html October 15, 2009 -- Two groups of archivists received briefings about the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and related activities at the Library of Congress during the week of October 5, 2009. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:05:48 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091008news_article_storage_meeting.html October 8, 2009 -- A goal of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to support collaborative efforts between the public and the private sectors. A recent example is the third Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation meeting, held Sept. 22-23, 2009, in Washington, D.C. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:05:07 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091007news_article_web_arch_vid.html October 7, 2009 -- Web content changes all the time. If we don't save that content before it disappears, a major part of our cultural history will be lost. <br> <br>This is the message of the second video in the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s video series. The just-released video, "Web Archiving," discusses the Library’s approach to collecting and preserving content found on the World Wide Web. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:38:30 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091007news_article_GEOMAPP.html October 7, 2009 -- The District of Columbia government, as part of its effort to refine a records and information management strategy, consulted with the Library of Congress about preserving geospatial data. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:37:37 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200910.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*News of 2009 Best Practices Exchange and the Preserving Digital News meeting <br> <br>*An article about a Digital Preservation Workshop held at the Library of Congress <br> <br>*The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation sponsored a national conference and published an interim report <br> <br>*Government Computer News recognizes NDIIPP among the best of Federal information technology initiatives of 2009 <br> <br>*New guidelines for content categories and digitization objectives published by the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative <br> <br>*An interview podcast about the DuraSpace pilot project is available from Federal News Radio <br> <br>*Upcoming Event: Registration is open for the Cultural Heritage Online Conference in Florence, Italy Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:20:07 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091001news_article_DPworkshop.html October 1, 2009 -- Over twenty Library of Congress staff had an opportunity to participate in a special workshop, Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems, hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, held September 21-22, 2009 in Washington, DC. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:19:03 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091001news_article_digitalnews_meeting.html October 1, 2009 -- The Internet has impacted news and journalism more than almost any other category of information. Newspapers have always been important research resources for users of libraries, archives and historical societies. But significant events are now reported in new ways, such as through blogs, podcasts, social-networking services, online news aggregators and multimedia web content. To address this change, the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program convened a two-day workshop to discuss a national strategy for collecting and preserving news content that is disseminated only in digital form. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:18:24 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20091001news_article_NCDD.html October 1, 2009 -- The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation sponsored a national conference in The Hague on September 18, 2009 to discuss its interim report, A Future for Our Digital Memory: Permanent Access to Information in the Netherlands. Library of Congress staff member Abigail Potter served as the keynote speaker and shared lessons learned from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:17:44 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090918news_article_GCN_award.html September 18, 2009 -- Government Computer News announced that the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is among the best of Federal information technology initiatives of 2009. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:58:38 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090918news_article_bpe.html September 18, 2009 -- Embracing the theme of "Tackling Technology Together," the 2009 Best Practices Exchange featured several presentations by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partners and staff. The meeting took place at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:58:01 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090918news_article_FNR.html September 18, 2009 -- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program staff member Bill LeFurgy was interviewed by Federal News Radio about the DuraSpace pilot project. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:56:58 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200909.pdf The September 2009 Issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. <br> <br>In this issue: <br> <br>*Profile of Digital Preservation Pioneer David Riecks <br> <br>*An article about recently published white papers on preserving digital legislative data <br> <br>*LOCKSS Chief Scientist David Rosenthal speaks at Library of Congress <br> <br>*An article about the K-12 Web Archiving Program <br> <br>*Library of Congress digital initiatives profiled in "Library Journal" <br> <br>*News of the 2009 SAA annual meeting and Saving Public Policy Web Content meeting <br> <br>*Upcoming Events: iPres 2009 and the Cultural Heritage Online Conference Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:11:57 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090827news_article_public_policy_meeting.html August 27, 2009 -- Curators and public policy experts representing commercial, academic and non-profit organizations convened for a two-day meeting at the Library of Congress to explore strategies for preserving public policy content that has been made available only on the web. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:47:14 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090921news_article_saa.html August 21, 2009 -- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partners were well-represented at the 2009 Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, held August 11-16 in Austin, Texas. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:01:26 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_riecks.html August 20, 2009 -- When you take a digital photo, the camera immediately records information about the aperture setting, shutter speed, focal length, metering mode and more. Some cameras have a global positioning system that adds information about where the photo was taken. <br> <br>But David Riecks (rhymes with "clicks") – professional photographer, digital-image technologist and metadata evangelist – believes that a digital photo should contain more information about itself. And he is on a mission to spread the word about the current and long-term value of photo metadata. Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:28:27 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200908.pdf The August 2009 Issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. <br> <br>In this issue: <br> <br>*The Library's digital content transfer tools and the BagIt specification <br> <br>*The launch of CDL's Public Web Archiving Service Collections <br> <br>*High school students are asked, "What does 'digital preservation' mean?" <br> <br>*The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program explores cloud computing <br> <br>*Seminar on Photometadata comes to Washington, DC <br> <br>*News of the AALL and NAGARA recent meetings <br> <br>*Announcements: New position open with NDIIPP; Myron Gutmann heads to NSF; NLM Publishes Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:24:40 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090805news_article_k-12_archiving_program.html August 5, 2009 -- Following a successful pilot program during the spring of 2008, the Library of Congress, Internet Archive and California Digital Library initiated a web archiving program that explored archiving websites from the perspective of students in elementary, middle and high schools. Two Library activities supported the pilot: the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the Teaching with Primary Sources program. Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:23:34 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090730news_article_gutmann.html July 30, 2009 -- Myron Gutmann, principal investigator for the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences project, is leaving the University of Michigan for the National Science Foundation. He will head the NSF directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, which supports research that builds fundamental knowledge of human behavior, interaction, social and economic systems and organizations and institutions. Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:14:42 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090730news_article_FADGI_update.html July 30, 2009 -- The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative is continuing work on guidance for digitizing cultural heritage materials. Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:14:03 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090729news_article_NAGARA.html July 30, 2009 -- Library of Congress staff played an active role at the recent National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators annual conference, held July 15-18 in Seattle, WA. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:51:52 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090729news_article_AALL.html July 30, 2009 -- Law librarians, who aim to protect "continuous and permanent access to legal information," heard about Library of Congress-supported work to preserve the digital records of state legislatures. <br> <br>The occasion was the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Librarians, in Washington, DC. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:51:14 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090723news_article_duracloud.html July 23, 2009 -- The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program has launched a pilot program to test cloud technologies for preserving digital content. The pilot will focus on using a new service, DuraCloud, developed and hosted by the DuraSpace Foundation. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:52:47 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090723news_article_dlib.html July 23, 2009 -- D-Lib Magazine has published an essay titled, 21st Century Shipping: Network Data Transfer to the Library of Congress in its July/August 2009 issue. Mike Ashenfelder, a Digital Media Project Coordinator in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, writes about how the Library uses network technology to transfer digital collections over the internet. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:51:30 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090715_article_getmetasmart.html July 15, 2009 -- The Stock Artists Alliance held a getMETAsmart seminar in Washington, DC on June 25 at the Washington Post headquarters. The program included a presentation about using metadata to attract customers, a demonstration of applications for embedding metadata in photographs and testimony from industry professionals about how metadata increased their business. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:32:26 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090715_article_was.html July 15, 2009 -- The California Digital Library has opened its Web Archiving Service collections. Topics in the collection range from California government agencies to middle-eastern politics to natural disasters. The institutions that harvested and curated the websites include New York University, the University of North Texas, Stanford University and several University of California campuses. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:31:35 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090715news_article_arlington_high_school.html July 15, 2009 -- What does "digital preservation" mean? It’s not a simple question, as 22 Arlington, Va, high school students discovered during a visit to the Library of Congress. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:30:48 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090715news_article_nlm.html July 15, 2009 -- In June 2009, the National Library of Medicine submitted a proposal to create a standard based on its Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite. NLM has asked the National Information Standards Organization to use the Tag Suite as the basis for a Standardized Markup Language. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:30:08 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200907.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>*A report on the latest NDIIPP meeting <br> <br>*Digital Preservation Pioneer Jerry Handfield of the Washington State Archives <br> <br>*The first video in the NDIIPP Digital Preservation Video Series <br> <br>*News of the latest meetings and upcoming events Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:49:35 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090709event_david_rosenthal.html NDIIPP Briefing: How Are We "Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents"? <br>Date: Monday, July 27, 2009 <br>Time: 12:00 noon <br>Place: National Digital Library Learning Center, Madison Building Atrium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. <br> <br>Dr. David S.H. Rosenthal, Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program, Stanford University, will explore sustainable approaches to format obsolescence in digital preservation. <br> <br>The event is open to the public Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:48:40 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090702news_article_partnersmeeting.html 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. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:39:34 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090702news_article_videorelease.html 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. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:38:50 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090630news_article_Chesapeake.html 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. <br> <br>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. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:03:30 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090630news_article_SLA.html 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." Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:02:31 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/data-transfer.html 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. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:53:21 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_handfield.html 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. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:52:33 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200906.pdf The June 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. <br> <br>http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200906.pdf <br> <br>Articles in this issue: <br> <br>* Tradition Meets Web 2.0 – The Library’s Flickr Project <br>* Archiving 2009 Conference <br>* Library Trends Issue Dedicated to NDIIPP Projects <br>* Recent Meetings, Announcements and more! Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:02:43 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090611news_article_IIPC_GA.html 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. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:48:21 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090611news_article_photometadata.html 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. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:47:32 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090604news_article_warc.html June 4, 2009 -- The WARC file format is now approved as an international standard: ISO 28500:2009. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:19:31 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090604news_article_LT.html 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. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:18:44 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200905.pdf The May 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now <br>available. <br> <br>http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200905.pdf <br> <br>Articles in this issue: <br> <br> * Public Interest in Private Records <br> * State Partners Meet <br> * NARA Conference Explores a New Preservation Era <br> * International Intern at NDIIPP <br> * World Digital Library &amp; other announcements Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:59:44 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090528news_article_archiving2009.html 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. <br> <br>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. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:44:39 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090528news_article_ncsl.html 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. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:43:59 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090514news_article_sabine.html 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. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:43:04 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090514news_article_berman.html 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. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:40:31 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090514news_article_wdl.html May 14, 2009 -- On April 21, 2009, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and 32 partner institutions launched the World Digital Library. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:21:49 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090514news_article_nascio.html 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. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:21:09 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090421news_article_PublicPrivateRecords.html 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. <br> <br>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. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:04:51 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090417news_article_states_pi.html 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. <br> <br>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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090417news_article_nara.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200904.pdf Articles in this issue: <br> * Indo-US Workshop on International Trends in Digital Preservation <br> * Preserving Photogrammetry <br> * Community Approaches to Preservation Conference <br> * Digital Preservation Pioneer: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Science <br> * Announcements http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090408event_archiving2009.html The sixth IS&amp;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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090407event_cultural_heritage_online.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090407news_article_india.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090326news_article_asprs.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090326news_article_metaarchive.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_ampas.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090320news_article_ASB09.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200903.pdf The March 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. <br> <br>http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200903.pdf <br> <br>In this issue: <br> * Link to the "CBS Sunday Morning" story on "data rot" <br> * Report from the Fifty States Federal Stakeholders Workshop on GIS data <br> * New Preserving State Government Information project brochures <br> * Information about the Audio-Visual Working Group of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiatives <br> * Announcement of the Audit Control Environment (ACE) software from the University of Maryland <br> * Upcoming Events <br> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090312news_article_secretaries_of_state.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090306news_article_cbs_sunday_morning.html 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." http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/DigitizationGuidelinesPart3.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090317event_david_kirsch.html 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." <br> <br>Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 <br>Time: 12:00 noon <br>Place: National Digital Library Learning Center, Madison Building Atrium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090503event_digpres_workshop.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090226news_article_ace.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090226news_article_states_fed_geospatial.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090226news_article_states_brochures.html February 26, 2009 -- The four projects of the Preserving State Government Information initiative are making it easier to get information about their activities. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200902.pdf February 11, 2009 - - In this edition: <br> <br> * Digital Preservation Pioneer: Jerry McDonough <br> * The release of the Understanding PREMIS Metadata Guide <br> * An update from the ALA Digital Preservation Interest Group meeting <br> * LiWA web archiving newsletter released <br> * Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives Laura <br>Campbell at Information Online http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_mcdonough.html 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. <br> <br>After logging on, she selected an animated cat named <br>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. <br> <br>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. <br> <br>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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090206news_article_campbell.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090204news_article_PREMIS.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090204news_article_LiWAnews.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090204news_article_ALAMidwin.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090129news_article_SustainReport.html January 29, 2009 -- The Interim report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090112news_article_mn_meeting.html 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. <br> <br>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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090109news_article_Sourceforge.html 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. <br> <br>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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2008/20081230news_article_NDIIPPPI_meeting.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2008/20081230news_article_DLF_meeting.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_carver.html 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. <br> <br>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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2008/20081201news_article_archivinginaarhus.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200811.pdf http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/archive.html All back issues of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter are available online at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/archive.html. <br> <br> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200809.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>-Announcement of the End-of-Term Web site capture project <br>-Information about JHOVE and JHOVE2 <br>-Invitation to participate in a Mass Storage meeting in Maryland http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200804.pdf In this issue: <br> <br>-An announcement about the recently released Section 108 Study Group Report <br>-News about the growing Digital Preservation Network <br>-Information about a multistate project meeting to preserve local government data http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge.html 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. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-004.html The Library of Congress digital preservation program, NDIIPP, adds new partners to preserve state government digital information. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_pearce-moses.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/resources/pubs/docs/OSI_StrategicPlan.pdf 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. <br> <br> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/packard.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_spencer.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/resources/pubs/docs/Fleischhauer_DLF20071106.pdf Click the link above to download a PDF of Carl Fleischhauer's presentation at the Digital Library Federation meeting in November 2007. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you/docs/NDIIPP_NBF07_inside.pdf Click the link above to download a PDF brochure with tips for preserving your digital materials at home. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-214.html Martha Anderson is the director of program management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_hedstrom.html The current state of digital preservation could bias history in favor of certain cultures. Margaret Hedstrom is searching for solutions. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you/didyouknow/index.html Test your knowledge with this short and informative quiz about digital preservation. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/historic_newspapers.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_morris.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_hartman.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2007/news_archive0807.html The Library of Congress digital preservation partners meet in June, and NDIIPP partner California Digital Library shares a collection of web capture plans. <br> http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-156.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/importance/pioneers/index.html Eileen Fenton is the executive director of Portico, a continuing archiving service for scholarly resources published in electronic form, beginning with electronic scholarly journals. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/sustainability.html A Library of Congress Web site tracks key information about the sustainability of a variety of digital formats. <br> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_kirsch.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you/digitalmemories.html Learn important tips from the Library of Congress for preserving your own digital memories. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2007/news_archive0607.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2007/news_archive0607.html Laura Campbell is the 2007 winner of the EMC Information Leadership Award http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/ The North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP) have two news items to report: <br> <br>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. <br> <br>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. <br> <br>Read more about these developments and future NDIIPP partner updates at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news <br> <br> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/web_harvest_challenge.html 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. <br> <br>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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_besser.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2007/news_archive0507.html 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. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2007/news_archive0407.html 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. <br> <br>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. <br>