Rare example of a journalist asking the right questions about wizzy new storage tech.

Project to define criteria, or design attributes, for storage that supports the work of digital preservation.  =============================================  The current versions are: * Preservation Storage Criteria, Version 3: https://osf.io/pwcvz/ * User Guide for the Preservation Storage Criteria Version 3: https://osf.io/uqkpb/  =============================================      Hosted on the Open Science Framework

More than 100 years’ worth of Lake City's municipal records were hijacked by unidentified hackers who encrypted the city’s computer systems and demanded more than $460,000 in ransom.

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Preservation Storage Criteria, Version 2 Last modified May 2017 Introduction Preservation Storage “provides the services and functions for the storage, maintenance and retrieval of [Archival Information Packages, or] AIPs. Archival Storage functions include receiving AIPs from Ingest and adding t...

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More than 100,000 internal investigations records dating back to 2004 have been lost, Air Force officials say.

Library professionals and library assistants who lack computer science or audiovisual training are often tasked with writing digital project proposals, grant applications or rationale to fund digitization projects for their institutions. Much has been written about digitization projects over the last two decades; digital storage has been highlighted as a central feature of any digitization project, especially the need to purchase additional storage mechanisms to house digitized collections. What is missing from the library science literature is a method for reliably calculating digital storage needs on the basis of parameters for digitizing analog materials such as documents, photographs, and sound recordings in older formats.

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Montana State University developed the Research Data Census to engage local research communities in dialogue about their data: size, sharing of resour

Stay the hell away from Seagate, apparently.