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UK: BFI and British Library Join Forces to Increase Access to Their Unique Collections
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|From a British Library Announcement: The BFI [British Film Institute] and the British Library have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with the objective of increasing public, professional and research access to audiovisual and broadcast content and integrating it with other knowledge collections. Signed by BFI Director, Amanda Nevill and British Library CEO, Dame […]
Video: A Library of Congress Workshop : "Moving Images: Digitizing to the Future"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Title: “Moving Images: Digitizing to the Future” Speakers: Dr. James Snyder, Michael Stelmach Recorded at the Library of Congress on January 24, 2011 Running Time: 145 minutes Abstract: This workshop covers the key concepts and technologies pertaining to moving image preservation and digitization in libraries, archives, and museums, including the typical elements in the preservation […]
Now Available: Living Web Archives (LiWA) Newsletter #3 Summarizes Results and Findings of Project
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Preservation, Resources
|Note: The final LiWA project review took place in Luxembourg on March 11th, 2011. From the Newsletter: Web content plays an increasingly important role in the knowledge-based society, and preservation and longterm accessibility of Web history have high value. The European funded project LiWAs looked beyond the pure “freezing” of Web content snapshots for a […]
From the LC Announcement: The controversial release of the first recording of contemporary stand-up comedy, the country music hit that divided American women, and an innovative television theme song are among the sound recordings that have been selected for preservation by the Library of Congress. Today, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named 25 new […]
From The National Science Foundation: A Glimpse of the Archives of the Future
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|From a National Science Federation “Discovery” Article: How does an archivist understand the relationship among billions of documents or search for a single record in a sea of data? With the proliferation of digital records, the task of the archivist has grown more complex. This problem is especially acute for the National Archives and Records […]
From a Kodak News Release: Eastman Kodak Company has completed the sale of certain assets of its microfilm products and equipment business to Eastman Park Micrographics, Inc. Eastman Park Micrographics and its affiliates, headquartered in Dallas, have a long and proven track record of providing products and services related to archival storage, retrieval, restoration and […]
World Digital Library: "A Portal to World History"
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|A number of stats and facts follow. From the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress: The WDL mission statement provides a good overall description of the project, “The World Digital Library makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and […]
HathiTrust Certified as Trustworthy Repository
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|From a HathiTrust Announcement: HathiTrust has been certified as a trustworthy digital repository by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) through their rigorous Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC) assessment program. Only a small number of digital repositories have been granted this certification. As our reliance on digital resources grows, the need for “long-lived” collections […]
Pass It On: Preservation Week 2011 Begins in Less Than One Month
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|Pass It On: Preservation Week April 24–30, 2011 Some 630 million items in collecting institutions require immediate attention and care. Eighty percent of these institutions have no paid staff assigned responsibility for collections care; 22 percent have no collections care personnel at all. Some 2.6 billion items are not protected by an emergency plan. As […]
Article: "Behind the Scenes: A Glimpse to the Archives of the Future"
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|From a LiveScience Article by Aaron Dubrow: At the end of President George W. Bush’s administration in 2000, NARA received roughly thirty-five times the amount of data as previously received from the administration of President Clinton, which itself was many times that of theprevious administration. With the federal government increasingly using social media, cloud computing, […]