K-12 Web Archiving Program
August 5, 2009 -- The Library of Congress, Internet Archive, and California Digital Library initiated a web archiving program that explored archiving websites from the perspective of K-12 students.
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Myron Gutmann Joins the National Science Foundation
July 30, 2009 -- Myron Gutmann is leaving the University of Michigan to head the National Science Foundation directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
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Federal Digitization Guidelines Update
July 30, 2009 -- The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative is continuing work on guidance for digitizing cultural heritage materials.
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NDIIPP States Projects Highlighted at NAGARA Meeting
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.
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Preserving State Legislative Heritage Discussed at AALL
July 30, 2009 -- Law librarians heard about Library of Congress-supported work to preserve the digital records of state legislatures at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Librarians.
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Preservation in the Cloud
July 23, 2009 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program has launched a pilot program with DuraSpace to test cloud technologies for preserving digital content.
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D-Lib Publishes Library Essay about Network Data Transfer
July 23, 2009 -- D-Lib Magazine has published an essay about how the Library uses network technology to transfer digital collections over the internet.
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Stock Artists Alliance Seminar Promotes Photometadata
July 15, 2009 -- The Stock Artists Alliance's getMETAsmart seminar was recently in Washington, DC to promote the use of metadata in digital photography.
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CDL Public Web Archive Service Collections Launched
July 15, 2009 -- The California Digital Library has opened its Web Archiving Service collections to the public.
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High School Students Explore Digital Preservation at Library
July 15, 2009 -- Arlington, VA high school students visit the Library of Congress to learn about digital preservation.
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NLM Publishes Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite
July 15, 2009 -- The National Library of Medicine submitted a proposal to the National Information Standards Organization to create a standard based on its Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite.
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Event: Dr. David Rosenthal Presentation: How Are We "Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents" ?
July 10, 2009 -- Dr. David S.H. Rosenthal, Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program, Stanford University, will explore sustainable approaches to format obsolescence in digital preservation in a public presentation at the Library of Congress on July 27, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
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Web Archiving Service Noted
July 10, 2009 -- The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an article that discusses the California Digital Library Web Archiving Service.
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NDIIPP Meeting Draws Record Crowd
July 2, 2009 -- The annual National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program meeting focused on sharing results from digital stewardship projects.
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NDIIPP Launches New Digital Preservation Video Series
July 2, 2009 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program has released a new video on transferring digital content.
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Battling Link Rot
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.
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Digital Preservation in the Round
June 30, 2009 -- The 2009 annual Special Libraries Association conference featured a session entitled "Digital Preservation: Discovery in the Round."
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Web Preservationists Meet
June 11, 2009 -- The annual International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly, held at the Library and Archives Canada from May 4-7, 2009, focused on activities of the three working groups.
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Get Smart about Photography Metadata
June 11, 2009 -- Stock Artists Alliance, a partner of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, has launched a website to promote industry-wide use of metadata in digital images.
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WARC Digital Container Format is Now an ISO Standard
June 4, 2009 -- The WARC file format is now approved as an ISO standard.
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Issue of "Library Trends" Focuses on NDIIPP Results
June 4, 2009 -- The Winter 2009 issue of "Library Trends" provides a broad overview of results from NDIIPP.
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