Digital Preservation- NDIIP

The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is the Library of Congress’ preservation program, aiming to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations. Its website contains all publications and some interesting subsites, such as on personal archiving, education, tools …

Film Forever, The Home Film Preservation Guide

Contents: Film Specifics: Stocks and Soundtracks Damage and Decomposition Inspection: Cleaning and Repair Projection Copies Storage Preparation Home Storage Disasters Equipment Suppliers Resources and Links Glossary. Deze gids richt zich op de meest voorkomende typen film in privé-collecties en verschaft de basisinformatie voor het implementeren van een praktische conserveringsstrategie. De gids behandelt de stabiliteit van speelfilm en doet aanbevelingen voor …

Digital Curation and the Citizen Archivist

The increasing array and power of personal digital recordkeeping systems promises both to make it more difficult for established archives to acquire personal and family archives and less likely that individuals might wish to donate personal and family digital archives to archives, libraries, museums, and other institutions serving as documentary repositories. This paper provides a conceptual argument for how projects …

The Center for Home Movies 2010 Digitization & Access Summit- Final Report

This report presents the proposals and subsequent discussions from the Home Movie Digitization & Access Summit held at the Library of Congress’s Packard Campus in September 2010.   The summit consisted of two days of presentations, discussions and screenings. The questions posed to the attendees were: “What would be needed (to do, have, spend, work around, etc.) in order to …

Archipelproject: Legal research (Preserving our History in a Sustainable Digital Way series)

Archipel is a project based on the finding that a sustainable digital archive infrastructure is needed in Flanders in order to ensure a structural approach to the problem of digital archiving. The  project is also based on the fact that there is an important role for players from the world of arts, cultural and scientific heritage and education in the …