Sharing, Theft, and Creativity: deviantART’s Share Wars and How an Online...
Dan Perkel is a Design Researcher at IDEO. Last year, he finished is doctoral work at Berkley’s iSchool. His dissertation, Making Art, Creating Infrastructure: deviantART and the Production of the Web,...
View ArticleNew Web Archiving Resources
The launch of a new web site is the perfect opportunity for an organization to revamp itself. Information is refreshed and updated, new initiatives are touted while old content and projects get...
View ArticleBeing Digital–Before You Were Born
I am introducing a new occasional feature for my posts on this blog — a series called “Before You Were Born.” Albert Hoxie in his home slide library, 1990. Photo by Richard Payatt. When I was an...
View ArticleCommunities of Practice Make it Possible: Digital Preservation at Smaller...
The following is a guest post by Jennifer Gunter King, Director, Harold F. Johnson Library, Hampshire College. Jennifer Gunter King In July, scholars, entrepreneurs and digital preservation...
View ArticleNew Residency Program Moves Forward
Heads up, recent grad students! The National Digital Stewardship Residency program is in the works, and Library of Congress staff members are currently working with other institutions in the...
View ArticleDigital Cultural Heritage DC Meetup Launched
I had the pleasure of joining a number of colleagues at the inaugural meetup for Digital Cultural Heritage DC last night. The informal group bills itself as a monthly gathering for those “working to...
View ArticleBorn Digital Minimum Processing and Access
The following guest post from Kathleen O’Neill, Archives Specialist in The Library of Congress Manuscript Division continues our series of posts reflecting on CurateCamp Processing. Meg Phillips’s...
View ArticleExhibiting Video Games: An interview with Smithsonian’s Georgina Goodlander
For this installment of Insights, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group’s ongoing series of interviews, I talk with Georgina Goodlander, the Web & Social Media Content...
View ArticleYes, The Library of Congress Has Video Games: An Interview with David Gibson
David Gibson Video games represent one of the most difficult challenges for digital preservationists. Created for a diverse array of hardware and software platforms, rife with rights issues, and as...
View ArticleArchiving the “Intellectual” Components of a Website
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. You might imagine that with the web being in its twenties everyone would know exactly what a website is. But you’d be surprised –...
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