- Museums have computers! A long history of working with them, to be sure.
- Not necessarily a digital preservation initiative, but something definitely worth following.
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- The deadline for getting your proposals in to Personal Digital Archiving 2013 is tomorrow!
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- The SPRUCE Project is an innovative undertaking that is tackling a number of big issues. Here's a quick overview of the project.
- Do you know a library "mover and shaker"? Are YOU a library "mover and shaker"? Your chance to nominate the 2013 Library Journal movers continues through tomorrow.
- The International Internet Preservation Consortium is working across the globe to preserve the Web.
- NDIIPP supported the initial Preserving Virtual Worlds project to explore the preservation of video games. And now PVW2 is coming.
- There are tremendous opportunities out there for librarians with technology skills. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says so!
- If there's a will there's a way to keep your computing infrastructure alive!
- What is a "digital object" anyway?
- No need to think about it anymore: it's time to "jump in" to managing digital information.
- Is it possible (or even desirable?) to preserve every last chunk of data?
- How do you manage born-digital collections acquired on digital media, such as CD-ROMs, external drives and floppy disks?
- NDSA partner the University of North Texas has put together a wonderful video on their digital Texas history resources.
- Our NDSA partners at Stanford have a lot of experience with preserving digital maps.
- Blue Screen Guy is one of our favorite digital-related halloween costumes. What are yours?
- Check out what's happening in the museum community, the latest from The Signal:
- “File fluidity” is a modern benefit of the digital age but it has long existed in the form of revised texts, different editions and even different interpretations of canonical works, including the Bible.
- The UK National Archives Digital Preservation FAQs is a great resource.
- The Internet Archive celebrates a milestone.
- Virginia Tech and Internet Archive are partnering to collect and archive Hurricane Sandy related web sites. You can help by suggesting sites here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dENfZFZvN3hGNGNSRG05VmpkWlJURWc6MQ
- There are lots of ways you can contribute to the digital preservation community.
- The Wayback Machine is a great tool for doing research on the web. Plus its name is a Rocky and Bullwinkle reference!
- What "is" a digital object, exactly? It's complicated!
- We're talking digital stewardship today at the 2012 Fall Fedlink Expo, 2:00 pm EST, at the Library of Congress, rm LM139.
- An interview that highlights the importance of digital preservation for civil and human rights:
- The latest from The Signal - 5 million pages, and other fascinating facts about this collection:
- What do you get if you put librarians, archivists, and records in the same room to talk about the management of state government information? The Best Practices Exchange in Annapolis, Maryland,
December 4-6, 2012. - The impact of this free exchange of knowledge is told in personal reflections offered in celebration of Open Access Week 2012 (Oct. 22-28).
- Not to be too morbid about it, but what does happen to your social media content after you pass away?
- We hosted Cory Doctorow for a presentation last week and it was great!
- There are huge changes afoot and we'd love to hear what you think about them.
- The End of Term Web Archive project team is preserving U.S. government websites during transitions in government. This fall, students at the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute are contributing to the project.
- What does your personal cloud look like? And what does that even mean?
- In the Signal, revisiting a NISO report that is as vital and relevant today as when it was first published in 2007.
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