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Digital Preservation

by Library of Congress

The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available digital content for current and future generations. Collaboration and shared ideas are essential to the success of NDIIPP and all digital preservation institutions. These podcasts are conversations with digital preservation leaders with whom the Library is collaborating. A production of the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Read more about the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.

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Episodes

  1. William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition

    William Kilbride, executive director of the UK-based Digital Preservation Coalition, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about data management and digital preservation in the UK. Kilbride shares his experiences of working with the Archaeological Data Service, Glasgow Museums and...

  2. Karen Cariani, Director of WGBH Media Library and Archives

    Karen Cariani talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her work at WGBH in Boston and as co-chair of the Library of Congress National Stewardship Digital Alliance Infrastructure Working Group. Cariani also talks about the unique digital preservation challenges facing television...

  3. Anne Van Camp, Director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

    Anne Van Camp talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her work at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the Research Library Group and the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Van Camp is helping to make the Smithsonian Institution Archives publicly available online through increased…

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  4. Mike Wash, National Archives and Record Administration

    Mike Wash, chief information officer of the National Archives and Record Administration, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about Wash’s work at the GPO and NARA, including the creation of a new GPO digital publication system, Fedsys, and leading NARA closer to the national…

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  5. Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Helen Tibbo is Alumni Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this podcast she talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about history, information retrieval and her pioneering work designing...

  6. Andrea Goethals, Harvard University Library

    Andrea Goethals, digital preservation and repository services manager at the Harvard University library, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her career transition from architecture to information technology and about her repository work at the Florida Digital Archive and…

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  7. Margaret Maes, Executive Director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance

    Margaret Maes, executive director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her early work as a law librarian and how her concern for preservation of born-digital legal and government publications led to her co-found LIPA. Maes…

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  8. Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist of Maryland

    Mike Ashenfelder and Bill Lefurgy, from the Library of Congress, talk with Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist of Maryland. Dr. Papenfuse discusses his career, his early success with records databases, creating the first online U.S. state archives, the utility of GPS data, developing a...

  9. Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive Officer at DuraSpace

    Mike Ashenfelder, from the Library of Congress, talks with Michele Kimpton about her career as an electrical engineer, software engineer and business person. She also gives her visionary perspective on web archiving, digital preservation, cloud storage and the future of personal archiving....

  10. Adam Farquhar, Head of Digital Library Technology at the British Library

    Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Adam Farquhar about digital preservation with PLANETS. Biography Adam Farquhar is Head of Digital Library Technology at the British Library, where he co-founded the Library’s Digital Preservation Team and was a lead architect on the…

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  11. Linda Tadic, Executive Director of the Audio Visual Archive Network

    Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Linda Tadic about the challenges and practical solutions for archiving and preserving digital video. Biography Linda Tadic is Executive Director of Audiovisual Archive Network, an independent non-profit digital library and preservation...

  12. Chris Greer, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States

    Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Chris Greer about the role of the federal government in science and information technology and about the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program, the primary mechanism the federal government uses to coordinate...

  13. Babak Hamidzadeh, Library of Congress Director of Repository Development

    Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Babak Hamidzadeh, Director of Repository Development at the Library of Congress, about the challenges of building an efficient, scalable digital repository. Hamidzadeh describes how the Library’s repository works, future plans for the...

  14. Robert Horton, Minnesota State Archivist

    Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Minnesota State Archivist Robert Horton about the challenges and success of making government electronic records available to the general public. Horton also talks about his work assisting other state archive in their digital preservation...

  15. Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas

    Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas about the role of collaboration in digital preservation projects. Halbert describes the process of creating the Transatlantic Slave Database and the MetaArchive consortium....

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available digital content for current and future generations. Collaboration and shared ideas are essential to the success of NDIIPP and all digital preservation institutions. These podcasts are conversations with digital preservation leaders with whom the Library is collaborating.

A production of the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.

Read more about the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.

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