Digital Preservation

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.

  • 40 minutes 35 seconds
    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 the DPC, and talks about the DPC’s work with digital preservation advocacy, outreach, training and communication.
    25 July 2012, 3:04 pm
  • 57 minutes 57 seconds
    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 content.
    21 June 2012, 1:45 pm
  • 57 minutes 57 seconds
    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 use of social media and crowdsourcing.
    31 May 2012, 2:07 pm
  • 57 minutes 57 seconds
    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 goal of creating permanent public access to government content. Wash, a lifelong photographer who spent the first several decades of his career working for Kodak, also touches on the engineering side of photographic equipment and his influence on modern camera functions.
    19 April 2012, 6:11 pm
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    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 curriculum for 21st century information technologists and digital curators.
    4 January 2012, 2:43 pm
  • 50 minutes 16 seconds
    Andrea Goethals, Harvard University Library
    Description: 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 in Harvard University’s library system. Goethals also talks about her work on the Global Digital Format Registry and with the preservation working group of the International Internet Preservation Coalition.
    12 October 2011, 7:45 pm
  • 33 minutes 29 seconds
    Margaret Maes, Executive Director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance
    Description: 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 also talks about the unique digital preservation challenges facing law librarians today
    10 June 2011, 7:06 pm
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist of Maryland
    Description: 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 financially self-sustaining repository, the value of folding publicly contributed data into online state records and making government information available online to its citizens.
    4 May 2011, 1:20 pm
  • 35 minutes
    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.
    8 March 2011, 6:23 pm
  • 35 minutes
    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.
    10 October 2010, 4:30 pm
  • 33 minutes
    Linda Tadic, Executive Director of the Audio Visual Archive Network and adjunct professor at New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program
    Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Linda Tadic about the challenges and practical solutions for archiving and preserving digital video.
    14 July 2010, 4:30 pm
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