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Talking about Storage Solutions for the “Lone Arrangers”

Posted by digitalassetman
/ March 28, 2012 / Leave a comment

by Erin Engle The following is a guest post from Thomas Padilla, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Assistant in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. We at the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program hear from working professionals across the country that digital preservation can be difficult to implement, let...

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Tagged Digital preservation, Libraries
Bit By Bit: Recent Projects on Digital Forensics for Collecting Institutions

Posted by Michelle Jouan
/ January 26, 2012 / Leave a comment

by Butch Lazorchak For the last several years there has been increased attention to the role and application of digital forensic technologies in cultural heritage institutions. Individual practitioners, especially in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, have worked the conference circuit, demonstrating capabilities and discussing the issues and challenges around the...

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Tagged Digital Forensic, Digital preservation, Libraries, Library of Congress
M-DISC, Write Once and Read for ever

Posted by digitalassetman
/ January 12, 2012 / Leave a comment

You might feel like you’re making a “permanent” backup of your files when you copy them onto a DVD or backup to a computer hard-drive, but the truth is these devices suffer from natural decay and degradation. Current DVD technology uses organic dyes and low laser power to make marks...

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Tagged Digital preservation, Storage
Today’s digital documents are tomorrow’s dinosaurs

Posted by digitalassetman
/ January 6, 2012 / Leave a comment

Replacing paper records contains as much peril as promise Shortly after Thanksgiving, President Obamaordered federal agencies to “improve the management of federal records” and embrace a “digital-based records-keeping system.” If adopted, these changes would be the most significant in record keeping since President Truman was in office. While the move from filing cabinets and...

Posted in DAM, Records Management

Tagged Digital preservation
ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

Posted by digitalassetman
/ September 6, 2011 / Leave a comment

For the last few years, historian and archivist Jason Scott has been involved with a loose, rogue band of data preservation activists called The Archive Team. As major sites with brand recognition and the work of millions announce short-notice shutdowns of their entire services, including Geocities, Friendster, and Yahoo Video,...

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Tagged Archive Team, Digital preservation
When Data Disappears

Posted by digitalassetman
/ August 8, 2011 / Leave a comment

Kari Kraus is an assistant professor in the College of Information Studies and the English department at the University of Maryland. LAST spring, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas acquired the papers of Bruce Sterling, a renowned science fiction writer and futurist. But not a single floppy...

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Tagged DAM, Data storage device, Digital preservation, news

Talking about Storage Solutions for the “Lone Arrangers”

Bit By Bit: Recent Projects on Digital Forensics for Collecting Institutions

M-DISC, Write Once and Read for ever

Today’s digital documents are tomorrow’s dinosaurs

ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

When Data Disappears

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