The following is a guest post by the entire group of NDSR-Boston residents as listed below. For their final posting, the residents present an overview of their individual professional development projects. Rebecca Fraimow (WGBH) One of the best things about this year’s NDSR in Boston is the mandate to dedicate 20% of our time to […]
Category: National Digital Stewardship Residency
Format Migrations at Harvard Library: An NDSR Project Update
The following is a guest post by Joey Heinen, National Digital Stewardship Resident at Harvard University Library. As has been famously outlined by the Library of Congress on their website on sustainability factors for digital formats, digital material is just as susceptible to obsolescence as analog formats. Within digital preservation there are a number of […]
Residents Chosen for NDSR 2015 in Washington, DC
We are pleased to announce that the Washington, DC National Digital Stewardship Residency class for 2015 has now been chosen! Five very accomplished people have been selected from a highly competitive field of candidates. The new residents will arrive in Washington, DC this June to begin the program. Updates on the program, including more information […]
Many Goals for One Residency: An NDSR Project Update
The following is a guest post by Jen LaBarbera, National Digital Stewardship Resident at Northeastern University Library. It’s hard to believe that I only have two and a half months left in this residency. Despite Boston’s interminable winter (officially the snowiest on record), my time as a National Digital Stewardship Resident at Northeastern University has […]
Boxes of Hard Drives and Other Challenges at WGBH: An NDSR Project Update
The following is a guest post by Rebecca Fraimow, National Digital Stewardship Resident at WGBH in Boston I have a pretty comprehensive list of goals to accomplish over the course of my time as the National Digital Stewardship Resident at WGBH’s Media, Library and Archives. That is: Document WGBH’s existing ingest workflow for production media […]
Conservation Documentation Metadata at MoMA – An NDSR Project Update
The following is a guest post by Peggy Griesinger, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Museum of Modern Art. As the National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Museum of Modern Art I have had the opportunity to work with MoMA’s newly launched digital repository for time-based media. Specifically, I have been tasked with updating and […]
Digital Audio Preservation at MIT: an NDSR Project Update
The following is a guest post by Tricia Patterson, National Digital Stewardship Resident at MIT Libraries This month marks the mid-way point of my National Digital Stewardship Residency at MIT Libraries, a temporal vantage point that allows me to reflect triumphantly on what has been achieved so far and peer fearlessly ahead at all that […]
Web Archive Management at NYARC: An NDSR Project Update
The following is a guest post by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC). A tipping point from traditional to emergent digital technologies in the regular conduct of art historical scholarship threatens to leave unprepared institutions and their researchers alike in a “digital black hole.” NYARC–the partnership of […]
Managing Research Data at Tufts University: An NDSR Project Update
The following is a guest post by Samantha DeWitt, National Digital Stewardship Resident at Tufts University. Hello readers and a happy winter solstice from Medford, Massachusetts. It’s hard to believe I am already in my third month of the National Digital Stewardship Residency. There’s a chill in the air and the vivid fall colors that […]
NDSR Applications Open, Projects Announced!
The Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Initiatives and the Institute of Museum and Library Services are pleased to announce the official open call for applications for the 2015 National Digital Stewardship Residency, to be held in the Washington, DC area. The application period is from December 17, 2014 through January 30, 2015. To apply, […]