DLF DLF Digital Library Federation Building a Transatlantic Digital Scholarship Skills Exchange for Research Libraries: Moving Forward There may be an ocean between the US and the UK, but in the age of Zoom, collaboration can transcend geographical boundaries. Research Libraries UK’s Digital Scholarship Network (DSN) and CLIR’s Digital Library Federation’s Data and Digital Scholarship (DDS) working group are continuing to foster a partnership aimed at building transatlantic collaborations and connections. The Read More The post Building a Transatlantic Digital Scholarship Skills Exchange for Research Libraries: Moving Forward appeared first on DLF. DLF Digest: August 2021 A monthly round-up of news, upcoming working group meetings and events, and CLIR program updates from the Digital Library Federation.  This month’s news: The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy group invites all interested digital pedagogy practitioners to contribute to a literacy- and competency-centered #DLFteach Toolkit, an online, open resource focused on lesson plans and concrete instructional Read More The post DLF Digest: August 2021 appeared first on DLF. Arabic Translations Available of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation The NDSA is pleased to announce that the 2019 Levels of Preservation documents have been translated into Arabic by our colleagues from Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation’s Qirab project (http://thesaurus-islamicus.org/index.htm). Translations for the Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix and Implementation Guide were completed. Links to these documents are found on the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation OSF Read More The post Arabic Translations Available of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation appeared first on DLF. Call for Nominations to the NDSA Coordinating Committee NDSA will be electing three members to its Coordinating Committee (CC) this year, with terms starting in January 2022. CC members serve a three year term, participate in a monthly call, and meet at the annual Digital Preservation Conference. The Coordinating Committee provides strategic leadership to the organization in coordination with group co-chairs. NDSA is Read More The post Call for Nominations to the NDSA Coordinating Committee appeared first on DLF. Catching up with past NDSA Innovation Awards Winners: ePADD Nominations are now being accepted for the NDSA 2021 Excellence Awards. In 2017, ePADD won the NDSA Innovation Award in the Project category. At that time, this project was an undertaking to develop free and open-source computational analysis software that facilitates screening, browsing, and access for historically and culturally significant email collections. The software incorporates Read More The post Catching up with past NDSA Innovation Awards Winners: ePADD appeared first on DLF. DLF Digest: July 2021 A monthly round-up of news, upcoming working group meetings and events, and CLIR program updates from the Digital Library Federation. This month’s news: CLIR/DLF will be closed Monday, July 5th. Newly published in Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 40 no. 2: “Persistent URLs and Citations Offered for Digital Objects by Digital Libraries,” a study reviewing Read More The post DLF Digest: July 2021 appeared first on DLF. Levels of Preservation Teaching, Advocacy, and Outreach Update The Levels of Preservation Steering Group is pleased to announce the official release of its first round of training support materials for those who want to teach and educate others in the Levels of Preservation. This has been the product of many months’ refinement and editing – not to mention lots of wordsmithing! Our heartfelt Read More The post Levels of Preservation Teaching, Advocacy, and Outreach Update appeared first on DLF. NDSA Adds Three New Members As of 8 June 2021, the NDSA Leadership unanimously voted to welcome its three most recent applicants into the membership. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) The Crowley Company Matthew Breitbart (Affiliate Member) Each new member brings a host of skills and experience to our group. UCLA is the largest digital library in the University Read More The post NDSA Adds Three New Members appeared first on DLF. It’s here, the 2021 NDSA Fixity Survey! Do you manage and preserve content? If so, we’d like to know what your fixity practices are! The NDSA Fixity Working Group is back again, with our latest iteration of the NSDA Fixity survey. Please contribute to our longitudinal research designed to gain insight into how organizations worldwide use various fixity methods to ensure the Read More The post It’s here, the 2021 NDSA Fixity Survey! appeared first on DLF. Building a Transatlantic Digital Scholarship Skills Exchange For Research Libraries On April 26, 2021, fifty colleagues from Research Libraries UK’s Digital Scholarship Network (DSN) and CLIR’s Digital Library Federation’s Data and Digital Scholarship (DDS) working group came together to explore the possibilities and benefits of creating a transatlantic digital scholarship skills exchange. Those working within research libraries will know that digital scholarship can be complex. Read More The post Building a Transatlantic Digital Scholarship Skills Exchange For Research Libraries appeared first on DLF. Announcing the NDSA Excellence Awards! The NDSA Excellence Awards Working Group (formerly the Innovation Awards Working Group) is excited to announce the expansion and renaming of the awards to recognize the important contributions that are being made in the areas of sustainability and maintenance. The NDSA Excellence Awards will highlight and commend all forms of creative and meaningful contributions by Read More The post Announcing the NDSA Excellence Awards! appeared first on DLF. German Translation for the 2019 Levels of Preservation Matrix Now Available GERMAN TRANSLATION FOR THE 2019 LEVELS OF PRESERVATION MATRIX  The 2019 NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix has been translated into German. Please find a link to the German translation below.  Citation information and a link to the German translation is as follows:  Lindlar, Micky (Orcid: 0000-0003-3709-5608); Rudnik, Pia (Orcid: 0000-0003-4081-9646)  (2021). NDSA 2019 Digital Read More The post German Translation for the 2019 Levels of Preservation Matrix Now Available appeared first on DLF. AMIA+DLF Cross-Pollinator Reflection: Justine Thomas This post was written by Justine Thomas, who received the AMIA+DLF Cross-Pollinator Registration Award to attend the virtual AMIA Spring 2021 conference. Justine (@JustineThomasM) is currently a Digital Programs Contractor at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) focusing on digital asset management and collections information support. Prior to graduating in 2019 with a Master’s Read More The post AMIA+DLF Cross-Pollinator Reflection: Justine Thomas appeared first on DLF. The #DLFteach Toolkit: Recommending EPUBs for Accessibility This post was written by Hal Hinderliter, as part of Practitioner Perspectives: Developing, Adapting, and Contextualizing the #DLFteach Toolkit, a blog series from DLF’s Digital Library Pedagogy group highlighting the experiences of  digital librarians and archivists who utilize the #DLFteach Toolkit and are new to teaching and/or digital tools. The Digital Library Pedagogy working group, also known as Read More The post The #DLFteach Toolkit: Recommending EPUBs for Accessibility appeared first on DLF. The #DLFteach Toolkit: Participatory Mapping In a Pandemic This post was written by Jeanine Finn (Claremont Colleges Library), as part of Practitioner Perspectives: Developing, Adapting, and Contextualizing the #DLFteach Toolkit, a blog series from DLF’s Digital Library Pedagogy group highlighting the experiences of  digital librarians and archivists who utilize the #DLFteach Toolkit and are new to teaching and/or digital tools. The Digital Library Read More The post The #DLFteach Toolkit: Participatory Mapping In a Pandemic appeared first on DLF. Call for Proposals open for NDSA Digital Preservation 2021! The NDSA is very pleased to announce the Call for Proposals is open for Digital Preservation 2021: Embracing Digitality (#DigiPres21) to be held ONLINE this year on November 4th, 2021 during World Digital Preservation Day. Submissions from members and nonmembers alike are welcome, and you can learn more about session format options through the CFP. Read More The post Call for Proposals open for NDSA Digital Preservation 2021! appeared first on DLF. 2021 AMIA Cross-Pollinator: Justine Thomas The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and DLF will be sending Justine Thomas to attend the 2021 virtual DLF/AMIA Hack Day and AMIA spring conference! As this year’s “cross-pollinator,” Justine will enrich both the Hack Day event and the AMIA conference, sharing a vision of the library world from her perspective. About the Awardee Read More The post 2021 AMIA Cross-Pollinator: Justine Thomas appeared first on DLF. 2021 DLF Forum, DigiPres, and Learn@DLF Calls for Proposals We’re delighted to share that it’s CFP season for CLIR’s annual events. Based on community feedback, we’ve made the decision to take our events online again in 2021. We look forward to new and better ways to come together—as always, with community at the center. Our events will take place on the following dates: The Read More The post 2021 DLF Forum, DigiPres, and Learn@DLF Calls for Proposals appeared first on DLF. Good Migrations: A Checklist for Migrating Your Digital Preservation Infrastructure My, how time flies. About half a decade ago, in 2015, I became one of the NDSA Infrastructure Interest Group co-chairs. This was part of the NDSA transition from being hosted by the Library of Congress to a new host, which would eventually be CLIR/DLF. Earlier that year, the Infrastructure Working Group (as it was Read More The post Good Migrations: A Checklist for Migrating Your Digital Preservation Infrastructure appeared first on DLF. Request for Participation in Fixity and Staffing Survey Working Groups Proposals have been accepted by the NDSA Coordinating Committee for starting up the Staffing Survey Working Group and the Fixity Survey Working Group. Both surveys were last published in 2017. If you are interested in participating in either of these groups please read the scope of work for each and complete the form below by Read More The post Request for Participation in Fixity and Staffing Survey Working Groups appeared first on DLF. AMIA+DLF Cross-Pollinator Registration Award           The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) are pleased to partner once again in sponsoring an AMIA+DLF Hack Day. This year’s AMIA+DLF Hack Day takes place remotely with activities from April 1-15. Registration is free, and you do not need to be registered for Read More The post AMIA+DLF Cross-Pollinator Registration Award appeared first on DLF. NDSA Welcomes Two New Members Today, the NDSA Coordinating Committee unanimously voted to welcome two new members. Each of these members bring a host of skills and experience to our group. Please help us to welcome: University of Wisconsin – Parkside: UW Parkside’s primary mission is to document the history of the University of Wisconsin – Parkside by collecting both Read More The post NDSA Welcomes Two New Members appeared first on DLF. What is Metadata Assessment? This blog post was authored by Hannah Tarver and Steven Gentry, members of the Digital Library Assessment Interest Group’s Metadata Assessment Working Group (DLF AIG MWG). It is intended to provide a summary overview of metadata assessment in digital libraries, including its importance and benefits.  If you are interested in metadata evaluation, or want to Read More The post What is Metadata Assessment? appeared first on DLF. Call for Volunteers: NDSA Task Force on Membership Engagement and Recruitment The NDSA Leadership group is spinning up a new group around NDSA Membership and invites you to consider volunteering for the Task Force on Membership Engagement and Recruitment. The focus of the Task Force will be to examine membership engagement, benefits/drawbacks of the current model type, and recruitment efforts of the NDSA. Through research and Read More The post Call for Volunteers: NDSA Task Force on Membership Engagement and Recruitment appeared first on DLF. Metadata During COVID This post was written by members of the Metadata Working Group, a subgroup of DLF’s Assessment Interest Group. Digital collections work has changed in a number of ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. For many libraries and archives, this has meant working remotely and shifting toward tasks that can be done online. Within the DLF AIG Read More The post Metadata During COVID appeared first on DLF. Three New NDSA Members Since January 2021, the NDSA Coordinating Committee unanimously voted to welcome three new members. Each of these members bring a host of skills and experience to our group. Please help us to welcome: Arkivum: Arkivum is recognized internationally for its expertise in the archiving and digital preservation of valuable data and digitized assets in large Read More The post Three New NDSA Members appeared first on DLF. Virtual 2020 NDSA Digital Preservation recordings available online! Session recordings from the virtual 2020 NDSA Digital Preservation conference are now available on NDSA’s YouTube channel, as well as on Aviary. The full program from Digital Preservation 2020: Get Active with Digital Preservation, which took place online November 12, 2020, is free and open to the public. NDSA is an affiliate of the Digital Read More The post Virtual 2020 NDSA Digital Preservation recordings available online! appeared first on DLF. Announcing Finnish Translations of the 2019 Levels of Preservation Matrix and Assessment Tool The NDSA is pleased to announce that the 2019 Levels of Preservation documents have been translated into Finnish by our colleagues from CSC – IT Center for Science and the Finnish digital preservation collaboration group.  Translations for the Assessment Tool Template and both versions of the Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix were completed.   Links to Read More The post Announcing Finnish Translations of the 2019 Levels of Preservation Matrix and Assessment Tool appeared first on DLF. CLIR Now Hiring: Senior Program Officer, DLF CLIR is now seeking applicants for a Senior Program Officer to lead the Digital Library Federation (DLF) program. This position will play a pivotal role in the strategic direction of DLF and provide vital leadership and guidance both within CLIR and the wider community. In line with the program’s mission, the Senior Program Officer will Read More The post CLIR Now Hiring: Senior Program Officer, DLF appeared first on DLF. Levels of Digital Preservation Digital Curation Decision Guide Published It is with great pleasure to announce that the Levels of Digital Preservation work continues to roll out. In these waning days of 2020, the Curatorial Team of the Levels has released its first published edition of the Digital Curation Decision Guide. This guide forms the basis of a series of decision points around collections Read More The post Levels of Digital Preservation Digital Curation Decision Guide Published appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Lisa Covington This post was written by Lisa Covington (@prof_cov), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Lisa Covington, MA is a PhD Candidate at The University of Iowa studying Sociology of Education, Digital Humanities and African American Studies. Her dissertation work is “Mediating Black Girlhood: A Multi-level Comparative Analysis of Read More The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Lisa Covington appeared first on DLF. Calls for Volunteers for 2021 Digital Preservation Conference The NDSA calls for volunteers to join our Planning Committee for the 2021 Digital Preservation conference. Digital Preservation (DigiPres) is the NDSA’s annual conference – open to members and non-members alike – focused on stewardship, curation, and preservation of digital information and cultural heritage. The 2021 meeting will take place on November 10-11th 2021 in Read More The post Calls for Volunteers for 2021 Digital Preservation Conference appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Betsy Yoon This post was written by Betsy Yoon (@betsyoon), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Betsy Yoon (she/they) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and OER/Reference Librarian at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and earned her MLIS in 2019. She also has a Master of International Affairs. She lives Read More The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Betsy Yoon appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez This post was written by Carolina Hernandez (@carolina_hrndz), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Carolina Hernandez is currently an Instruction Librarian at the University of Houston where she collaborates on creating inclusive learning environments for students. Previously, she was the Journalism Librarian at the University of Oregon, where Read More The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Rebecca Bayeck This post was written by Rebecca Bayeck (@rybayeck), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Rebecca Y. Bayeck is a dual-PhD holder in Learning Design & Technology and Comparative & International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Currently a CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Read More The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Rebecca Bayeck appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús This post was written by Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús will be graduating next spring from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras with a BA in History of Art. Her research interest focuses on education, Read More The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús appeared first on DLF.