Digital Preservation

The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available digital content for current and future generations. Collaboration and shared ideas are essential to the success of NDIIPP and all digital preservation institutions. These podcasts are conversations with digital preservation leaders with whom the Library is collaborating.

A production of the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.

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    William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition William Kilbride, executive director of the UK-based Digital Preservation Coalition, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about data management and digital preservation in the UK. Kilbride shares his experiences of working with the Archaeological Data Service, Glasgow Museums and the DPC, and talks about the DPC’s work with digital preservation advocacy, outreach, training and communication.BiographyWilliam Kilbride earned a doctorate in archaeology from…
    • Contributor: William Kilbride - Mike Ashenfelder
    • Date: 2012-07-24
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    Karen Cariani, Director of WGBH Media Library and Archives Karen Cariani talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her work at WGBH in Boston and as co-chair of the Library of Congress National Stewardship Digital Alliance Infrastructure Working Group. Cariani also talks about the unique digital preservation challenges facing television content.BiographyKaren Cariani has worked at WGBH in Boston since 1984 where she produces, manages and archives television shows. She also provides…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Karen Cariani
    • Date: 2012-06-21
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    Anne Van Camp, Director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives Anne Van Camp talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her work at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the Research Library Group and the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Van Camp is helping to make the Smithsonian Institution Archives publicly available online through increased use of social media and crowdsourcing.BiographyAnne Van Camp began her career at Chase Manhattan Bank as an archives manager, went on to…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Anne Van Camp
    • Date: 2012-05-31
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    Mike Wash, National Archives and Record Administration Mike Wash, chief information officer of the National Archives and Record Administration, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about Wash’s work at the GPO and NARA, including the creation of a new GPO digital publication system, Fedsys, and leading NARA closer to the national goal of creating permanent public access to government content. Wash, a lifelong photographer who spent the first several…
    • Contributor: Mike Walsh - Mike Ashenfelder
    • Date: 2012-04-19
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    Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Helen Tibbo is Alumni Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this podcast she talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about history, information retrieval and her pioneering work designing curriculum for 21st century information technologists and digital curators.BiographyHelen Tibbo has been an educator for over 30 years. She earned…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Helen Tibbo
    • Date: 2012-01-04
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    Andrea Goethals, Harvard University Library Andrea Goethals, digital preservation and repository services manager at the Harvard University library, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her career transition from architecture to information technology and about her repository work at the Florida Digital Archive and in Harvard University’s library system. Goethals also talks about her work on the Global Digital Format Registry and with the preservation working group…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Andrea Goethals
    • Date: 2011-10-12
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    Margaret Maes, Executive Director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance Margaret Maes, executive director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her early work as a law librarian and how her concern for preservation of born-digital legal and government publications led to her co-found LIPA. Maes also talks about the unique digital preservation challenges facing law librarians today.BiographyMargaret Maes is the executive director of the Legal…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Margaret Maes
    • Date: 2011-06-10
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    Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist of Maryland 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…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Edward C. Papenfuse
    • Date: 2011-05-04
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    Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive Officer at DuraSpace Mike Ashenfelder, from the Library of Congress, talks with Michele Kimpton about her career as an electrical engineer, software engineer and business person. She also gives her visionary perspective on web archiving, digital preservation, cloud storage and the future of personal archiving.BiographyMichele Kimpton is the Chief Executive Officer at DuraSpace. Kimpton co- founded the DSpace Foundation in 2007 to lead the collaborative development and…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Michele Kimpton
    • Date: 2011-03-08
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    Adam Farquhar, Head of Digital Library Technology at the British Library Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Adam Farquhar about digital preservation with PLANETS.BiographyAdam Farquhar is Head of Digital Library Technology at the British Library, where he co-founded the Library’s Digital Preservation Team and was a lead architect on the Library’s Digital Object Management system. He is Scientific Director of the EU-funded Planets Digital Preservation project, co-chair of the ECMA TC45 Standards…
    • Contributor: Adam Farquhar - Mike Ashenfelder
    • Date: 2010-10-10
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    Linda Tadic, Executive Director of the Audio Visual Archive Network Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Linda Tadic about the challenges and practical solutions for archiving and preserving digital video.BiographyLinda Tadic is Executive Director of Audiovisual Archive Network, an independent non-profit digital library and preservation service for historical sound and moving image collections. She also consults and lectures in the areas of digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation and metadata.…
    • Contributor: Linda Tadic - Mike Ashenfelder
    • Date: 2010-07-14
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    Chris Greer, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Chris Greer about the role of the federal government in science and information technology and about the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program, the primary mechanism the federal government uses to coordinate its IT research.BiographyChris Greer is Assistant Director for Information Technology Research and Development in the White House Office of Science and…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Chris Greer
    • Date: 2010-04-29
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    Babak Hamidzadeh, Library of Congress Director of Repository Development Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Babak Hamidzadeh, Director of Repository Development at the Library of Congress, about the challenges of building an efficient, scalable digital repository. Hamidzadeh describes how the Library’s repository works, future plans for the repository and its tools and what will be expected of IT professionals and digital librarians as their roles grow increasingly interdependent.BiographyBabak Hamidzadeh is…
    • Contributor: Babak Hamidzadeh - Mike Ashenfelder
    • Date: 2010-03-15
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    Robert Horton, Minnesota State Archivist Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Minnesota State Archivist Robert Horton about the challenges and success of making government electronic records available to the general public. Horton also talks about his work assisting other state archive in their digital preservation efforts.BiographyRobert Horton is state archivist and director of the library, publications and collections division at the Minnesota Historical Society. Among other…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Robert Horton
    • Date: 2009-09-28
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    Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas about the role of collaboration in digital preservation projects. Halbert describes the process of creating the Transatlantic Slave Database and the MetaArchive consortium.BiographyMartin Halbert, dean of libraries at the University of North Texas has worked in library administration and systems positions at University of…
    • Contributor: Mike Ashenfelder - Martin Halbert
    • Date: 2009-09-25