About Digital Preservation
A production of the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
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.
Read more about the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
Conversations about Digital Preservation Podcasts
Title: Linda Tadic, Executive Director of the Audio Visual Archive Network and adjunct professor at New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program
Description: Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Linda Tadic about the challenges and practical solutions for archiving and preserving digital video.
Date: July, 2010
Running Time: 33:00 minutes
Title: Chris Greer, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States
Description: 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 its IT research.
Date: March, 2010
Running Time: 22:45 minutes
Title: Babak Hamidzadeh, Library of Congress Director of Repository Development
Description: 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.
Date: January 27, 2010
Running Time: 32:29 minutes
Title: Robert Horton, Minnesota State Archivist
Description: 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 efforts.
Date: September 28, 2009
Running Time: 33:15 minutes
Title: Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas
Description: 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.
Date: September 25, 2009
Running Time: 38:21 minutes
Title: Patricia Cruse, Director of the California Curation Center
Description: Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Patricia Cruse, Director of the California Curation Center about making government information available to the general public and about her work with the libraries of the University of California system.
Date: September 25, 2009
Running Time: 35:48 minutes
