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The digital preservation community is a connected and collaborative one. I first heard about the Europe-based PREFORMA project last summer at a Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative meeting when we were discussing the Digital File Formats for Videotape Reformatting comparison matrix. My interest was piqued because I heard about their incorporation of FFV1 and Matroska, […]
D-Lib Magazine
MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files
A blog about Digital Preservation, digital curation, long term access.
Digital Eclipse wants to build its engine into gaming's Criterion Collection.
In 2014, the NC State University Libraries was awarded an EZ Innovation Grant from the State Library of North Carolina to develop a freely available web-based documentary toolkit that publicly documen
The TIFF/A standard initiative is a group of experts focusing on the definition of a specification of a Archival TIFF Format, TIFF/A. TIFF is widely used by memory institutions to preserve their digital images. However, the specification of TIFF is complex and some of its features are proprietary an therefore not suitable for long-term archival purposes. Continue reading →
Gone, but not forgotten.
Politwoop's API access revoked without warning; had archived posts, deletion times.
Newspapers are some of the most-used collections at libraries. They have been carefully selected and preserved and represent what is often referred to as “the first draft of history.” Digitized historical newspapers provide broad and rich access to a community’s past, enabling new kinds of inquiry and research. However, these kinds of resources are at […]
Good stuff on risk management.
Digital information has an unexpectedly short shelf life, historically speaking. Archivists are struggling to preserve it, even as the volume of new material grows exponentially.