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NDIIPP Projects on Digital Preservation Award Shortlist

September 28, 2010 -- The Institute of Conservation and the Digital Preservation Coalition recently announced the shortlist for the prestigious Digital Preservation Award 2010.
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ContextMiner Wins APSA Award

September 24, 2010 -- The American Political Science Association has awarded ContextMiner, part of the NDIIPP VidArch project, Best Political Science Software.
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Web Browser Supports Time Travel

September 24, 2010 -- MementoFox, a free extension that users can add-on to their Mozilla browser, enables users to older versions of websites. 
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Extractor Tool Helps Preserves Microsoft Outlook Emails and Attachments

September 24, 2010 -- The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System research project has recently released an open source software tool that extracts email, attachments and other objects from Microsoft Outlook.
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The Library Participates in Save Our African American Treasures

September 14, 2010 -- The Library of Congress participated in the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Save Our African American Treasures event, held August 14-15 in Topeka, Kan.
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The Proper Way to Capture the Web

September 10, 2010 -- Abbie Grotke of the NDIIPP Web Archiving Team talks about some of the Library's web archiving projects.
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Mediated by Software

September 10, 2010 -- David Brunton of the Library of Congress Repository Development Center discusses development of software tools to manage digital content.
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A Digital Preservation Summer

September 8, 2010 -- Two interns worked with the NDIIPP Communications Team on a variety of projects during their summer internships.
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Physical and Digital Preservation of the Waldseemuller Map

September 8, 2010 -- The Library of Congress has created a video comparing the preservation of the 1507 Waldseemuller Map with preservation of its digital copies.
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Computerworld on Archival Storage

September 2, 2010 -- A recent Computerworld article examined some of the issues surrounding archival storage and the large quantities of digital data generated.
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