Crossing the River: An Interview With W. Walker Sampson of the Mississippi...
In this post for The Signal, I talk with W. Walker Sampson about his work at Mississippi Department of Archives and History and about his use of the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation. Walker has...
View ArticlePersonal Stories, Storage Media, and Veterans History: An Interview with...
Another post for The Signal, this time talking to Andrew Cassidy-Amstutz about his preservation work in the Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress. Personal Stories, Storage Media,...
View ArticleFile Fixity and Data Integrity
Another post for The Signal. This one is part of our series explicating each “box” of the Levels of Digital Preservation guidance document. Needless to say, I’m always looking for an excuse to use...
View ArticleI Review 6 Digital Preservation Models So You Don’t Have To
When digging through the ol’ desktop/hard-drive/thumb-drives/external-drives/google-drive/dropbox/evernote/oh-god-please-help-me recently I came across the notes (filename: “levels_notes.doc” — good...
View ArticlePreserving Digital Culture – The Good, The Bad, and The Syllabus
I was lucky enough to have the chance to co-teach the class “Preserving Digital Culture,” with Alison Langmead (thanks Alison!) and James King this past semester, Spring 2014, as part of the archives...
View ArticleTAGOKOR: Biography of an Electronic Record
I figured I would put up a post noting the publication last month of my piece in Issue 4 of Archive Journal, “TAGOKOR: Biography of an Electronic Record.” The piece attempts something of a material...
View ArticleWeb Archiving in the United State: A 2013 Report
The 2013 NDSA Web Archiving Survey has been released! Regular readers of this blog (I’m kidding of course — there is no such thing!) will recall my work on the 2011 NDSA Web Archiving Survey...
View ArticleWhen in Eternal Links to Time Thou Grow’st
When in Eternal Links to Time Thou Grow’st I wrote this post for the Archive-It blog, but I figured I would post it here too, mostly because it was fun to research and to dig through the 2800+...
View ArticleSpeak to the Eyes: The History and Practice of Information Visualization
[Posted here, on my personal website, per the allowance of the publication agreement, is my article, co-authored with Lily Pregill (@technelily) for Art Documentation (Vol. 33, Fall 2014). If for...
View ArticleLink Rot: Overruled! The Variable Geometries of Preserving the Web
[Cross-posting from the Archive-It blog, where we belatedly featured this. Scroll down for the audio-video!] Back in October, Georgetown University Law Library hosted a one-day symposium, “404/File Not...
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