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Why Digital Preservation Is Important For Everyone
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Gillmor Working with NDIIPP
August 25, 2010 -- Director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University Dan Gillmor engaging with NDIIPP on preserving born-digital news articles and information.
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CIESIN Releases Geospatial Clearinghouse Survey
August 18, 2010 -- NDIIPP partner conducting survey to gain insight into potential uses and users of a geospatial data preservation clearinghouse and to inform its development.
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GeoMAPP Engages Industry at ESRI International Conference
August 18, 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.
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NDIIPP Meeting Draws Crowd, Stirs Interest
August 9, 2010 -- The
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partners meeting was held July 20-22 in Arlington, Va.
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Library’s Approach to Open Source Attracts Crowd at GW Presentation
August 9, 2010 -- Leslie Johnston spoke about the Library of Congress developing open-source software for supporting digital stewardship activities at George Washington University on July 15, 2010.
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Law and Orderly Preservation
August 9, 2010 -- The American Association of Law Libraries annual conference featured a session on preserving born-digital ephemera, held in Denver, CO, July 12.
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New LC video on personal archiving
July 26, 2010 -- The Library of Congress has released a new video that addresses the challenge of personal digital archiving.
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Archive-It Tuned Into Customers
July 26, 2010 -- Kristine Hanna, director of web archiving services at the Internet Archive, talks about the latest release of the Archive-It application.
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Putting Metadata on the Map
July 26, 2010 -- Jenn Riley, metadata librarian in the Indiana University Digital Library Program, created an inforgraphic of metadata standards.
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NDIIPP as Constant Companion
July 26, 2010 -- Barrie Howard is the newest staff member of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
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Snapshots on File Formats
July 26, 2010 -- An article in the Spring 2010 issue of Information Standards Quarterly focused on the Federal Agencies Digitiziation Guidelines Initiative and current digital reformatting practices for audio-visual records.
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New LC podcast on preserving digital video
July 16, 2010 -- Audiovisual archivist Linda Tadic offers practical solutions for preserving digital video.
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Collaboration Key to a Future for Our Digital Memory
June 23, 2010 -- The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation issued a new report, A Future for Our Digital Memory.
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Library Perspectives on Scientific Data Stewardship
June 23, 2010 -- A recent National Research Council Board of Research Data and Information symposium shared some perspectives on scientific data stewardship.
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Data Conservancy: Help with Grand Research Challenges
June 23, 2010 -- Sayeed Choudhury, associate dean for Library Digital Programs at Johns Hopkins University, talked about Data Conservancy at the Library of Congress on June 7, 2010.
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Jimi Jones: A Necessary Passion for Digital Preservation
June 16, 2010 -- Jimi Jones joins the staff of the Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Initiatives as an IT Specialist (Audio/Visual).
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Library Staff Visits Middle-School Web Archivists
June 15, 2010 -- Staff from the Library of Congress traveled to Connecticut to visit and interview the teacher and students who contributed to the K-12 Web Archiving program.
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The Second "I" in NDIIPP
June 10, 2010 --Leslie Johnston, NDIIPP manager of technical architecture initiatives, discusses the role that infrastructure plays in digital preservation.
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Creating and Preserving Digital Copies of Historical Collections
June 10, 2010 --Digital Library Specialist Kit Arrington described the process of digitizing the the Library’s holdings in a National Park Service National Center for Preservation Technology and Training podcast.
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CSI Curator
June 10, 2010 -- The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities hosted the Computer Forensics and Cultural Heritage meeting in College Park, MD, May 14-15, 2010.
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Web Archiving Experts Meet in Singapore
June 10, 2010 -- The annual General Assembly meeting of the International Internet Preservation Consortium was held at the National Library Board, Singapore, May 3-5, 2010.
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Upcoming Event: Best Practices Exchange 2010 Explores Libraries and Archives in the Digital Era
June 7, 2010 -- Digital Preservation conference will be held in Phoenix Sept. 29-Oct.1, 2010.
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Upcoming Event: The Data Conservancy: A Web Science View of Data Curation
June 2, 2010 -- Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University Sayeed Choudhury will speak at the Library of Congress on June 7, 2010 at 12:00 p.m.
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Geospatial Data Preservation Clearinghouse
June 2, 2010 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program will fund development of a geospatial data preservation clearinghouse at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University's Earth Institute.
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GeoMAPP Project Releases Interim Report
May 27, 2010 -- Report documents their work from 2007-2009.
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Merritt in CDL Repository Development Project
May 27, 2010 -- The California Digital Library is developing a new digital preservation repository, known as the Merritt Project.
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Digital Genome Deposited in Swiss Fort Knox
May 27, 2010 -- The European Planets project deposited a time capsule deep in a data vault in southwestern Switzerland containing a digital "genome" from which they hope future generations will be able to reconstruct some types of digital file formats.
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Solutions or Calamities?
May 27, 2010 -- The 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies addressed ideas for bridging the gap between what computers can do and the ability to keep data available.
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Data-PASS Project Gets IMLS Support for Tool
May 27, 2010 -- The Data-PASS Alliance recently received an IMLS award to develop a policy-based archival replication system for libraries, archives and museums.
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Personal Archiving Day at the Library
May 19, 2010 -- The Library of Congress held its first Personal Archiving Day to help people keep their personal information, whether in analog or digital form.
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Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell Visits Library
May 19, 2010 -- Computing pioneer Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research made a recent visit to the Library to talk about MyLifeBits.
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CIOs Discuss Preserving State Digital Data
May 13, 2010 -- NDIIPP staff provided a status briefing at the 2010 NASCIO Mid-Year Conference on April 30 in Baltimore, Md.
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Preserving Digital Legislative Records
May 11, 2010 -- A new report from the National Conference of State Legislatures looks at digital preservation issues.
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New NDIIPP podcast: Chris Greer
May 11, 2010 -- Chris Greer of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is featured in a new NDIIPP Digital Preservation podcast.
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NDIIPP on Facebook
May 6, 2010 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is now on Facebook.
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