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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The November 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter

The November 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available.


http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201211.pdf

In this issue:

*Activist Archivists preserving content from the Occupy Wall Street movement

*Mapping the Federal geospatial stewardship efforts

*Interviews with: Lori Emerson, Director of the Media Archaeology Lab; Peter Van Garderen and

Courtney Muma, Archivematica; and Christie Moffatt and Jennifer Marill, National Library of Medicine

*Find out about The Atlas of Digital Damages

*An update on the National Digital Newspaper Program

*Read about how you can use the Wayback Machine for research

*The Signal makes the Digital Preservation Award shortlist

*Recaps from recent events: Designing Storage Architectures Meeting; NDIIPP at the National Book

*Festival; Cory Doctorow's recent talk at the Library of Congress; and the Digital Asset Management Conference

*Upcoming events: Best Practices Exchange Dec. 4-6, 2012, Annapolis, MD; Personal Digital Archiving Conference Feb. 21 - 22, 2013, Univ. of Maryland

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