The Library of Congress and Personal Digital Archiving

The Library of Congress and Personal Digital Archiving

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The Library of Congress and Personal Digital Archiving by Mike Ashenfield was produced and released on May 5th, 2015. It is an open source instruction and informational guide on various personal digital archiving resources. There is a total of 300 pages with various different categories to sectionalize the information being presented. For example, some categorizations are by social media. According to the presentation, different social media contain various functions in regarding how they like to cite and source their resources. In addition, it provides the history and origins of digital archiving and why it is necessary for saving data and information over time. This informational presentation is provided by the Library of Congress, allowing it to be an open access program available for viewing and download by the public. This item can be a very essential item to add because it is categorized in a very sleek and concise manner. It is a very simplistic but informational guide that can be used to aid anyone from students to professors when teaching and instruction lessons on digital archiving. It’s overall purpose is to ensure that the public continues being informed on the processes and value of digital archiving so that information can be digitized and preserved for future generations to come.

Mike Ashenfelder

2015-05-06 18:56:32

Clara Pulido, Jacquelyn Curtin, Truc Duong

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Ashenfelder, Mike. The Library of Congress and Personal Digital Archiving. Accessed April 13, 2020. https://archive.org/details/ashenfelder_pda2015/page/n1/mode/2up.