"Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy": my blog post for @HuffingtonPost is now up: http://t.co/yhQZoS4q (w/links to #omeka #LOC)

@daliawithnoh tweeted a link: RT @content_insight: Intranet, anyone? Free eBook on organizing digital information for others from @maish http://t.co/K3KGFnVA http://twitter.com/daliawithnoh/status/175712187925536768

Mary Ann Williams slideshare
Totally Wired:
1. Findability - metadata
2. Memory - documentation
3. Search and retrival - consistency
Change Agent
Translator, Consensus maker, Task master, Social butterfly
5 helpful lessons

Library of Congress

IBF is a confidential, members-only intranet benchmarking group. We are the leading authority on intranet and digital workplace performance and best practice.

Building on posts by AP's Jonathan Stray and NYU's Clay Shirky, we look at just how digital the "digital public sphere" really is, using data from the Pew Research Center on Americans' use of various media for news about national and international issues.

Penn State

Ellyssa Kroski gets the scoop on social media, cloud storage, and Semantic Web initiatives at the world's largest library
Ellyssa Kroski -- Library Journal, 08/06/2009

NY Times
By STEVE LOHR
Published: July 16, 2011

Welcome to the Long-Term Digital Retention and Preservation Reference Model site.

plot historical maps of the city onto the GPS-enabled digital maps of today

NYPL Menu collection

The AIMS project is collaboration between the universities of Stanford, Virginia, Yale (US) and Hull (UK). These partners also collaborate on the Hydra application framework for the Fedora repository which we are adopting at LSE.

HathiTrust, comprehensive digital archive of academic library content. All-digital libraries not quite the future yet. Climate of US Copyright law and licensing access to digitized books means not happening yet.

Data Gatherers themselves should use digital-native techniques in the first telling of the stories in their data. In addition to injecting subject matter expertise into the online discussion of complex issues, it will create the welcome byproduct of better, cleaner data to support subsequent interactive development.

We need a national digital library that includes practical as well as scholarly material, and is easily accessible to everyone.

How the Internet gets inside us.
by Adam Gopnik February 14, 2011

single page http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all

"It's knowing your collection as a subject matter expert to very fine detail, it's figuring out how to communicate and educate people on what is there and how they can find it, and it's reaching out to a larger community."

Our personal photos, papers, music and videos are important to us. They record the details of our lives and help define us. But increasingly our possessions and our communications are no longer material: they're digital and dependent on technology to make them accessible.

As new technology emerges and current technology becomes obsolete, we need to actively manage our digital possessions to help protect them and keep them available for years to come. This video offers simple and practical strategies for personal digital preservation.