The following is a guest post by Kris Nelson, Program Management Specialist at the Library of Congress and Program Coordinator of the National Digital Stewardship Residency. It’s hard to believe that the current cohort of National Digital Stewardship Residents will conclude their program later this month. After nine months of working on their projects, attending […]
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NDSR Symposium: Pushing the Digital Envelope
The following is a guest post by Kris Nelson, Program Management Specialist at the Library of Congress and Program Coordinator of the National Digital Stewardship Residency. “If you want to do important work, you have to work on an important problem.” With these words, Betsy Humphreys, Deputy Director of the National Library of Medicine, effectively […]
Upcoming NDSR Symposium “Emerging Trends in Digital Stewardship”: Speaker Announcements
The following is a guest post by Jaime McCurry, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Folger Shakespeare Library. It’s certainly been an exciting and busy few months for the National Digital Stewardship Residents and although we are well into the final portion of our projects, we’re showing no signs of slowing down. In addition to […]
The Heart of the Matter: An NDSR Project and Program Update
The following is a guest post by Maureen McCormick Harlow, a National Digital Stewardship Resident at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. She is working on a project to build a thematic web collection. Greetings from the National Library of Medicine! It’s hard to believe it, but I’m heading into the fourth quarter […]
The Heart of the Matter: An NDSR Project and Program Update
The following is a guest post by Maureen McCormick, a National Digital Stewardship Resident at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. She is working on a project to build a thematic web collection. Greetings from the National Library of Medicine! It’s hard to believe it, but I’m heading into the fourth quarter of […]
A Digital Preservation Residency at Dumbarton Oaks Library
The following is a guest post by Heidi Dowding, Resident at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, DC As part of the National Digital Stewardship Residency program’s biweekly takeover of The Signal, I’m here to talk about my project at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. And by the way, if you haven’t already […]
The National Digital Stewardship Residency, Four Months In
The following is a guest post from Emily Reynolds, Resident with the World Bank Group Archives For the next several months, the National Digital Stewardship Residents will be interrupting your regularly-scheduled Signal programming to bring you updates on our projects and the program in general. We’ll be posting on alternate weeks through the end of […]
Residency Program: From the Classroom to the Workplace
The following is a guest post by Lyssette Vazquez-Rodriguez, Program Support Assistant & Valeria Pina, Communication Assistant, both with the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress Residents in the inaugural class of the National Digital Stewardship Residency program have been busy at their host institutions since mid-September. The residents agree that during […]
Welcome, NDSR Inaugural Class!
The following is a guest post by Lyssette Vazquez-Rodriguez, Program Support Assistant & Valeria Pina, Communications Assistant, both with OSI at the Library of Congress The residents have finally arrived! After years of planning, the staff, hosts, and benefactors are thrilled to welcome the 2013-2014 National Digital Stewardship Residency Inaugural Class. The residents arrived on […]
DPOE Turns Three with the July Train-the-Trainer in Illinois
The following is a guest post from Michael Mastrangelo, a Program Support Assistant in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. The Midwest doubles down on its commitment to digital preservation with its second digital preservation Train-the-Trainer event in two years. Hosted July 9 – 12, 2013, by the Consortium of Academic […]