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Digital Preservation at the National Book Festival 2013
This past weekend I got to do one of my favorite things of the year: work at the NDIIPP Digital Preservation booth at the 2013 National Book Festival. Vintage media at the digital preservation booth....
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Planning for Preservation Storage
Every year the Library of Congress hosts a meeting on Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections, aka the Preservation Storage Meeting. The 2013 meeting was held September 23-24, and...
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Before You Were Born: The Hardware Edition
I increasingly deal with vintage hardware. Why? Because we have vintage media in our collections that we need to read to make preservation and access copies of the files stored on them. I spend a lot...
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Am I a Good Steward of My Own Digital Life?
After reading a great post by the Smithsonian Institution Archives on Archiving Family Traditions, I started thinking about my own activities as a steward of my and my family’s digital life. I give...
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Packaging eSerials for Transfer and Preservation
In my work at the Library, one of my larger projects has to do with the acquisition and preservation of eserials. By this I don’t mean access to licensed and hosted eserials, but the acquisition and...
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Considering Emulation for Digital Preservation
There was a week in January 2014 where I participated in three meetings/events where emulation came up as a digital preservation solution. Emulation has really hit its stride, 20 years after I first...
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6 Emerging Initiatives for Digital Collections
I was asked to present a talk today for an internal group at the Library of Congress based on my recent experiences participating in the Top Tech Trends panel at the 2014 American Library Association...
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Preserving News Apps
Natl. Press Bld. Newstand. Photo by Harris & Ewing, ca. 1940. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.28304 On Sunday, March 2, I had the opportunity to attend an OpenNews Hack Day event at the Newseum in...
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What Could Curation Possibly Mean?
My colleague Trevor Owens wrote a great blog post entitled “What Do you Mean by Archive?” This led to a follow-up discussion where I publicly announced on Facebook that I wanted to write about the term...
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A Very Special Episode about Digital Preservation
In getting ready to make a transition from digital preservation and repository development at the Library of Congress to digital preservation at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration...
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