Digital Preservation Webcasts

June 2, 2015. As part of a symposium on archiving email, presenters discuss the archival perspective of email preservation and archivists present lessons learned, including real-life challenges and successes stories, to help participants understand how policies and decision-making practices were applied to accessioning and processing email archives. Speaker Biography: Roger Christman is senior state records archivist at the Library of Virginia. Speaker Biography: Aprille Cooke McKay is lead archivist for university collections development at the University of Michigan. Speaker Biography: Dorothy Waugh is digital archives project archivist at Emory University. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7072

June 2, 2015. As part of a symposium on archiving email, presenters discuss the records management perspective and explore the current federal sector and Capstone approaches. Speaker Biography: Lisa Haralampus is director of federal records management policy in the Office of the Chief Records Officer for the U.S. Government. Speaker Biography: Deborah Armentrout is agency records officer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Speaker Biography: Jeanette Plante is director of the Office of Records Management Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice. Speaker Biography: Edwin McCeney is departmental records officer at the U.S. Department of the Interior. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7070

June 2, 2015. Chris Prom provides a closing summary to this symposium on archiving email and leads a wrap-up discussion with participants. Speaker Biography: Chris Prom is assistant university archivist and assistant professor of library administration at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7067

June 2. 2015. As part of a symposium on archiving email, presenters discuss the policy and guidelines development perspective and explore a cross-pollination of perspectives of how private, public and state government institutions are managing email to not only maximize long-term research value but also to comply with technical, legal, access and intellectual policy issues in processing email archives. Speaker Biography: David Kirsch is associate professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business in the University of Maryland. Speaker Biography: Anthony Cocciolo is an associate professor at the Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science. Speaker Biography: Kenneth Hawkins is in the digital preservation division of the National Archives and Records Administration. Speaker Biography: Kathleen O'Neill is a senior archives specialist in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Margaret McAleer is a senior archives specialist in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Christopher Hartten is an archivist in the music division of the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7071

June 2, 2015. As part of a symposium on archiving email, presenters discuss the technical perspective of email preservation, focusing on the reasons and approaches for the normalization of email archives, strategies for PII and other redaction needs, tools for providing patron access, repository needs, especially ingest, and workflow selections for implementing their technical email archiving solutions. Speaker Biography: Ricc Ferrante is information technology archivist and director of digital services at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Speaker Biography: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig is electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Speaker Biography: Jaime Schumacher is director of scholarly communication for university libraries at Northern Illinois University and co-PI of the Digital POWRR Project. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7069

June 2, 2015. Introductory remarks to a day-long meeting on the challenges and solutions of collecting and preserving email. As memory institutions increasingly process born-digital collections, one thing is clear: processing digital collections increasingly involves working with large quantities of complex email messages and their attachments. Workflows, toolsets and policies for accessing and preserving email archives are emergent and changeable. Co-sponsored with the the National Archives and Records Administration. Speaker Biography: Mark Sweeney is Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Paul Wester is Chief Records Officer of the US Government for the National Archives and Records Administration. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7068

July 23, 2014. A panel at the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting discusses how effective data reuse depends on a complex chain of activities and involves the interplay of data producers, reusers and curators. A key challenge is determining what specific data curation practices are needed to enable data reuse. In this session, three presenters explored these issues in two different contexts: a cyberinfrastructure project that enables the transfer of active data into preserved data objects; and a case study of secondary uses of curated data in the archaeological community. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6582

July 22, 2014. This panel from the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting features brief presentations about cooperative approaches to digital stewardship from the Academic Preservation Trust, the Research Data Alliance, the Preserving Digital Objects with Restricted Resources (PoWRR) and the Five Colleges Consortium followed by a panel discussion comparing and contrasting models for collaboration. The discussion is moderated by Meg Phillips of the National Archives and include Fran Berman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Bradley Daigle (University of Virginia), Aaron Rubinstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jaime Schumacher (Northern Illinois University). For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6584

July 22, 2014. A panel discussion from the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting covered how the challenges of preservation data from space are truly astronomical. Four presenters discussed and explored these issues in a range of contexts. These included projects working with satellite data from the 1950s, a database of extragalactic distances occurring in research libraries, and ongoing work on managing space data and data from satellites at National Oceanographic Data Center and NASA. The panelists explored issues in curating space data over the last sixty years, providing a fruitful context to better understand the lifecycle of research data in this and other fields. Presenters included Hampapuram Ramapriyan (NASA), Deirdre Byrne (NOAA/NODC), Emily Frieda Shaw (University of Iowa Libraries) and Karl Nilsen & Robin Dasler (University of Maryland Libraries). Vivek Navale (National Archives) served as moderator. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6585

Oct. 9, 2014. Moryma Aydelott and Erin Engle discuss the newly-formed Library of Congress Digital Preservation Working Group. They provide an overview of digital preservation activities at the Library and introduce the "Library of Congress Levels of Digital Preservation," a new resource that assists managers and staff with digital content preservation. Speaker Biography: Blane K. Dessy is deputy associate librarian for planning and project management in Library Services at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Moryma Aydelott is assistant to the director for Preservation at the Library of Congress. She has been active for several years in projects to conserve data on tangible media in the Library's digital repository. Speaker Biography: Erin Engle is a digital archivist in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. She and Moryma Aydelott were active in the formation of the Library's Digital Preservation Working Group. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6493

July 23, 2014. The web is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2014, and although more organizations than ever are preserving web content, preservation of and access to archived content remains challenging on many fronts. This panel provided an opportunity to reflect not only where we are today, but the future of web archiving, featuring brief presentations by experts working in the field. Presenters included Stephen Abrams (California Digital Library), Martin Klein (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland) and Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University). For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6419

July 23, 2014. Media artist and digital culturist Dragan Espenschied spoke at the 2014 Digital Preservation meeting. Speaker Biography: Dragan Espenschied is a media artist, digital culture researcher and 8-bit musician living in New York City. Starting out as a net activist in the late 1990s, he created several online interventions concerned with power structures and live network traffic analysis and manipulation together with Alvar Freude. Espenschied focuses on the historization of digital culture from the perspective of computer users rather than hackers, developers or inventors and together with net art pioneer Olia Lialina has created a significant body of work concerned with how to represent and write a culture-centric history of the networked age. Since 2011, he has been restoring and culturally analyzing 1TB of Geocities data, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6422

July 23, 2014. Four "lightning" presentations on Day Two of the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting included "Visual Haggard and Digitizing Illustration" (Kate Halterhoff, Carnegie-Mellon University), "DuraSpace and Chronopolis Partner to Build a Long-term Access and Preservation Platform" (Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace), "Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation" (Theron Westervelt, Library of Congress) and "Electronic Records and Digital Archivists: A Landscape Review" (Jane Zhang, Catholic University of America). For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6418

July 22, 2014. Five "lightning" presentations on Day One of the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting included "Beyond the Russian Doll Effect: Reflexivity and the Digital Repository Paradigm" (James Bradley, Ball State University), "Video Game Source Disc Preservation" (David Gibson, Library of Congress), "UELMA-Compliant Preservation: Questions and Answers?" (Rebecca Katz, Council of the District of Columbia), "We Want You Just the Way You Are: The What, Why and When of Fixity in Digital Preservation" (Kate Murray, Library of Congress) and "Save Your Databases Using SIARD!" (Krystyna Ohnesorge, Swiss Federal Archives SFA). or transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6417

July 22, 2014. Shannon Mattern discusses the aesthetics of preservation at the annual Digital Preservation meeting. Speaker Biography: Shannon Mattern is associate professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York. Her research and teaching address the forms and materials of media and the spaces (architectural, urban, conceptual) they create and inhabit. She has written about archives, libraries and other media-architectures, media infrastructures, place branding, public design projects, multisensoriality and media exhibition. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6420

July 23, 2014. Web pioneer George Oats spoke at the 2014 annual Digital Preservation meeting. Speaker Biography: George Oates has worked on the web for almost 20 years in design-related roles. She invented the Commons on Flickr in 2008, redesigned the Open Library at the Internet Archive and art-directed at Stamen Design in San Francisco. Her design business is called Good, Form & Spectacle. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6421

This video presents the basics of scanning including scanner preparation, setting image properties, image compression and saving the file as a TIFF or JPEG. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/videos/scanner.html

July 24, 2013. Panel discussion about aspects of energy usage and sustainability in digital preservation. With: Joshua Sternfeld, NEH (moderator); David Rosenthal, Stanford University; Kris Carpenter, Internet Archive; Krishna Kant, George Mason University and the National Science Foundation. For more information, visit http://digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/videos/green_bytes.html.

Travis May talks about two economic data systems at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Anne Wooten, co-founder of Pop-Up Archive, talks about the problems facing digital audio collections in small institutions and the need to adopt common standards for cataloging and tracking audio recordings. For more information, visit http://digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/videos/wooten.html&loclr=itu

Emily Gore is the Director for Content of the Digital Public Library of America. In this role, she oversees the Digital Hubs Pilot Project and coordinates content workflows for DPLA. Gore came to the DPLA after working for 12 years in digital library and technology development in academic and state libraries. Most recently, she served as the Associate Dean for Digital Scholarship and Technology at Florida State University Libraries. Her work has largely focused on building digital collection collaborations among cultural heritage institutions. She previously managed the former statewide digital library in North Carolina, NC ECHO, and co-directed the South Carolina Digital Library. She has a Master's degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama, a BA in English/Technical Writing from Clemson University and is a 2011 graduate of the Frye Leadership Institute. For more information, visit http://digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/videos/gore.html&loclr=itu

Director of Common Crawl Lisa Green speaks on the subject of digital preservation and machine-scale access and analysis at Digital Preservation 2013. Green said that she is motivated by a strong belief in the power of open systems to drive innovation in education, arts and research. Over the last several years she has been active in the areas of Open Access publishing, Open Science, Open Data, copyright, digital rights and policy. Immediately prior to joining Common Crawl, Lisa was Chief of Staff at Creative Commons. She holds a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of California Berkeley. For more information, visit http://digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/videos/green.html&loclr=itu

Digital Media Strategist Sarah Werner speaks at Digital Preservation 2013 about the mutual concerns of digitizing and preserving cultural heritage. Speaker Bio: Sarah Werner works at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which holds the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials and one of the world's largest collections of printed works and manuscripts from the Renaissance. She was the founder and, for 7 years, the director of the Folger's Undergraduate Program, which brought DC-area students into the Library for semester-long seminars on the history of early modern books and emphasized a hands-on exploration of the materiality of texts. She is currently the Library's Digital Media Strategist, a position in which she seeks to connect the Library's rich material resources with digital tools, opening up access to the Library to scholars and the public across the world. Sarah has written and presented on the connections between early modern books and digital tools, including in her role as the editor and chief writer for The Collation, the Library's research blog. She is also the author of Shakespeare and Feminist Performance (Routledge 2001), the editor of New Directions in Renaissance Drama and Performance Studies (Palgrave 2010), and the textual editor of The Taming of the Shrew for the forthcoming third edition of the Norton Shakespeare. She is currently writing a textbook for studying early books and exploring how digital editions of Shakespeare's plays represent performance. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5994

The DPOE Baseline Digital Preservation Curriculum consists of six topics. Identify the types of digital content you have. * Select what portion of your digital content will be preserved. * Store your selected content for the long term. * Protect your content from everyday threats and emergency contingencies. * Manage and implement requirements for long term management. * Provide access to digital content over time. For more information, visit http://digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/videos/dpoe.html&loclr=itu

From the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, the never-before published tale of Snow Byte and the Seven Formats. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5966

Digital Preservation 2013 Speaker: Hillary Mason chief scientist at bitly, co-founder of HackNY, creator of dataists, and member of NYCResistor, opened Digital Preservation 2013 with her keynote talk on the delicacies of data. Hilary Mason is the chief scientist at bitly, a company that studies attention on the internet in realtime, doing a mix of research, exploration, and engineering. Mason co-founded HackNY, a non-profit that helps talented engineering students find their way into the startup community of creative technologists in New York City. She is also an advisor to a few organizations, including knod.es, collective, and DataKind, as well as a mentor to Betaspring, the Providence, Rhode Island-based startup accelerator, and TechStars New York. She’s a member of Mayor Bloomberg’s Technology and Innovation Advisory Council, which has been a fascinating way to learn how government and industry can work together. For more information visit http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/videos/hillary-mason.html&loclr=itb

Groundbreaking singer, songwriter and guitarist Ian MacKaye spoke at the Library of Congress on personal digital archiving and the need to educate creators and users in ways to steward our digital cultural heritage. Speaker Biography: As both performer and producer, MacKaye has documented music coming out of the Washington, D.C. underground for the past 30 years. MacKaye founded Dischord Records as a teenager in 1980 with partner Jeff Nelson. Their original intent was simply to release a single to document their recently defunct band, The Teen Idles. The label has since gone on to release music from more than 60 bands, with more than 160 albums during the past 25 years. In the process, the label performed a citizen-archivist role, documenting Washington-area music in many forms and catalyzing cultural activity and community-building in the nation's capital and around the world. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5905.

Archivematica is a free and open-source digital preservation system that is designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects. Courtney Mumma, the Archivematica product manager and systems analyst, will talk about the system. Archivematica recently worked with the University of British Columbia Library to integrate their existing CONTENTdm digital collection management system with Archivematica to add digital preservation services to digitization workflows. The presentation will explore the feature requirements and development of this CONTENTdm integration as an example of how the Archivematica project's open source development model works. Speaker Biography: Courtney C. Mumma provides end-user support, user documentation, quality assurance testing and system requirements management for Artefactual's Archivematica project. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia's Master of Archival Studies and Master of Library and Information Studies programs (2009). At the City of Vancouver Archives, she helped to develop and implement their digital archives system while managing the acquisition of the hybrid digital-analog 2010 Winter Games archives. She has been a researcher and co-investigator on the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES 3 Project), researcher on the UBC-SLAIS Digital Records Forensics Project, and a member of the Professional Experts Panel on the BitCurator Project. For captions, transcript, or more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5614.

Since digital photography is instantaneous, we take and collect an enormous amount of photos. But as our personal collections grow, it becomes more and more difficult to find specific photos. If your digital photos are difficult for you to manage, how will your loved ones be able to make sense of them in the future? This video explains how you can add descriptions and tags to your digital photo files to make it easier to organize and search your collection. For more information, visit http://1.usa.gov/I5VI0j.

Aaron Presnell, of the Jefferson Institute, gives a presentation at the 2011 NDIIPP/NDSA Partners' Meeting in Washington DC.

The advent of personal computing devices such as PCs and smart phones with terabyte storage has enable the capture, recording and recall of everything a person reads, writes and hears. These are the new records and artifacts of the 21st century digital person. Since 1998 Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research has worked on MyLifeBits, a system to digitally store everything in a person's life, including accumulated and current articles, books, correspondence, financial and legal records, memorabilia, photos, telephone calls, time-lapse photos, video and web pages. MyLifeBits is both an experiment in lifetime storage and a software research effort. For archivists, exponentially increasing amounts of personal digital artifacts will soon arrive seeking immortality at the portals of museums and libraries, providing a new challenge to institutions accustomed to dealing with an analog person's boxes of papers and memorabilia of past millennia. Organizing, retrieving, preserving and protecting these fleeting, bit-based artifacts over the long-term is the contemporary archivist's greatest challenge. Bell's talk touched on the project's history and discussed the research challenges and the wide-ranging social and personal benefits of the MyLifeBits technology, especially as it pertains to cultural memory institutions. Speaker Biography: Gordon Bell spent 23 years (1960-1983) at Digital Equipment Corporation as Vice President of Research and Development, where he was responsible for Digital's products. He was the architect of various mini- and time-sharing computers (e.g. the PDP-6) and led the development of DEC's VAX and the VAX Computing Environment. Bell has been involved in, or responsible for, the design of many products at Digital, Encore, Ardent, and a score of other companies. He has been involved in the design of about 30 multiprocessors. He is a founding board member of The Computer History Museum at 1401 Shoreline, Mountain View, CA, established in 1999. The museum's world-class artifact collection came from the former Computer Museum, Boston that he co-founded, 1979 with Gwen Bell that originated in 1975 with the now deceased Digital Equipment Corporation that became part of HP in the lat2 1990s. He became a fellow of the Museum on 22 October 2003.