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June 2013 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter Library of Congress June Digital Preservation Newsletter 2013 Upcoming Events Digital Cultural Heritage DC Ian MacKaye and Citizen Archiving #DCHDC June 20, Washington, DC We hosted Ian MacKaye of the independent NDSA Regional Workshop, label Dischord Records in a presentation at June 14, New York, NY the Library of Congress on May 7. Digital Preservation 2013, MacKaye founded Dischord as a teenager July 23-25, Alexandria, VA with partner Jeff Nelson in 1980, and he and Nelson went on to form Minor Threat, a group that, along with Bad Brains, has been credited with introducing the DC hardcore ethic to an Reflections from Ian MacKaye of Dischord Records speaking at audience beyond Washington. Preserving.exe Summit the Library of Congress. Credit: Leslie Johnston As a performer, producer and enthusiastic long demonstrated cultural and economic Hardware Matters merit. The concern is that valuable materials supporter, MacKaye has documented music What are We Going to do coming out of the Washington, D.C. will be lost through the ravages of time About Hardware? underground for the past 30 years. Much of without intervention, supporting the idea the music and art he’s compiled is not being that we need to creatively engage with comprehensively addressed by major citizen archivists to help identify important collecting institutions, but that’s not unusual. materials early in their lifecycle and to assist Digital Preservation Bits in their long-term care. There’s often a gap between an activity and Setting Out on the Digital the entrance of its artifacts into the halls of You can watch a video and read more Preservation Path as a culture, even while the material may have about reflections from his talk. Library of Congress Junior Fellow Open Data and Preservation IIPC @ 10 original vision included collections that were Hey Content Creator: Make built with common tools and practices that Mine Lossless! would enable interoperable access across What Do Researchers Want systems and boarders. This vision is still at the From Institutions that core of what the IIPC is trying to accomplish, Preserve Digital Content? and many strides have been made toward this goal. Late in April, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the Visit us at: International Internet Preservation Consortium At this year’s GA several discussions centered around how to keep the digitalpreservation.gov/ gathered for its annual General Assembly. This year is the 10th anniversary of the organization, IIPC making significant contributions to Talk to us on our blog: and we marked the milestone by reflecting on cultural heritage and remain relevant in a The Signal our past accomplishments and thinking about fast-changing web world. In addition to how the members could work together to noting achievements the members Sign up for our: make positive and lasting impacts on the field suggested to the Steering Committee how Newsletter of web archiving. to guide the organization in the next 10 years, below are the major themes that Find us on: The mission of the IIPC is to “to acquire, came out of these discussions during the preserve and make accessible knowledge and entire week of the GA. information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global Read more about the April GA. exchange and international relations.” The digitalpreservation.gov/ 2 Digital Preservation Newsletter Digital Preservation at the Packard Campus Digital Preservation Outreach and Education We produce occasional short videos related to Calendar of Events: Access digital preservation. These videos address such training and educational topics as personal digital archiving, adding offerings in the practice of descriptions to digital photographs and the K- digital preservation. 12 Web Archiving program, to name a few. Our newest video profiles one of the Library of Congress’s most magnificent treasures: the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Culpeper, VA. Watch: Digital Preservation at the Packard Conversation Corner Campus for Audio Visual Conservation Historicizing the Digital for Digital Preservation Education: An Interview with Alison Langmead and Brian Beaton Digital Pioneer: Cliff Lynch Understanding User Generated Tags for Digital cultural trends and technological Collections: An Interview developments. He ponders their variables, with Jennifer Golbeck interdependencies and influencing factors. He Hydra’s Open Source confers with colleagues and draws Approach: An Interview with conclusions. Then he reports his observations Tom Cramer through lectures, conference presentations and writings. People who know about Lynch Content Matters Interview: The State Electronic Records pay close attention to what he has to say. Initiative Lynch is a soft-spoken man whose work, for Reality Check What Most more than thirty years, has had an impact — People Actually Do with Photo courtesy of Cecilia Preston direct or indirect — on the computer, Their Personal Digital information and library science communities. Archives: Clifford Lynch is widely regarded as an oracle in the culture of networked information. Lynch Read more about Lynch and his career. monitors the global information ecosystem for Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do Preservation Week 2013 might be over, but digital camera and other mobile devices. digital preservation must go on every week of Do some personal digital estate planning. the year. In truth, preservation is an ongoing, This is the newsletter of the (Here are some insights.) long lasting process that requires active National Digital management. Tak e a stab at some digital disaster Stewardship Alliance, the Digital Preservation Former NDIIPP intern Tess Webre has some planning. (Here are some more insights.) helpful suggestions to help keep you in the Outreach and Education preservation-y mood until next year. Here are Read NDIIPP’s new collection of digital initiative and the National a few; you can read all tips here. preservation perspectives, it has many ideas Digital Information and tips. Infrastructure Program. Organize your email. (Really, it’s worth considering.) Take a look at the new Digital Public Library of America. It’s quite awesome, and has Do some backups of your smart phone, tablet, some fantastic exhibits. digitalpreservation.gov/ .
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