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What it says on the tin: software tools for automated detection of common video digitization problems before they become preservation problems.
If you’ve been to the movies in the past decade, chances are you haven’t seen a film. Celluloid, the industry’s medium of choice for more than a century, has all but disappeared from American cinemas, with 95 percent of...
Structural metadata standard for archiving digital video files. Beware the hype -- it does NOT address content file-format issues, so is not a 100% "solution."
The ‘Archival Exchange Format’ has been standardized by SMPTE with participants from organizations including Disney, Universal and the Library of Congress
Institute of Museum and Library Services
At the 2014 Society of American Archivists meeting, the CAD/BIM Taskforce held a session titled “Frameworks for the Discussion of Architectural Digital Data” to consider the daunting matter of archiving computer-aided design and Building Information Modelling files. This was the latest evidence that — despite some progress in standards and file exchange — the digital preservationist […]
For pre-2010 documents in three appeals courts, you'll have to go in person.
Table of Contents for Recommended Formats Statement (RFS). RFS identifies analog and digital formats suitable for the large-scale acquisition of and long-term access to library collections. The identified formats have been selected to maximize the preservation and accessibility of creative content into the future.
Documentation from CLOCKSS's TRAC audit.
Analyze your collection to find out how much waiting to digitize will cost.
Will cloud-dependent software leave anything behind for future historians?
A recent study by Timothy Vines et al investigated the availability of scientific research data from 516 papers between 2 and 22 years of age1. They report that the older a paper is, the less likely it is that the data are accessible, with odds of accessible data falling by 17% per year after publication.…
That old Michael Jackson disc? You've probably been treating it wrong.
One night in 2011, the New York gallery Boo-Hooray hosted an exhibit of infamous B-movie director Ed Wood’s trash paperback novels. Woods wrote the books in mere days and sold them to pornographic...