Excellent case study, with useful worksheets.

Video games are already raising many of the thorniest challenges in the field of digital preservation, and as games continue to become more complex, those challenges are rapidly compounding. One of the most extensive recent efforts to analyze these challenges has been the Preserving Virtual Worlds (PVW) project, a collaborative research venture of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Stanford, the University of Maryland, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and digital entertainment developer Linden Lab, best known for the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game Second Life.

AMAZING overview.

DP tool listing. Supersedes several older ones.

Prompted by a blog post by Barbara Sierman, this space is a staging area for collecting visual examples of digital preservation challenges, failed renderings, encoding damage, corrupt data, and visual evidence documenting #FAILs of any stripe. You can contribute just an image. If you want to tell the story behind the image, that's even better. If you'd like to share the original file (or set of files), so that tool developers can learn from digital damage and test out their code with it, we'll be eternally in your debt. Contribute the files here: github.com/openplanets/format-corpus If you'd like to contribute to some other community digital preservation initiatives check out these ideas: wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SPR/Support+your+digital+preser...

by Gabriela Redwine, Megan Barnard, Kate Donovan, Erika Farr, Michael Forstrom, Will Hansen, Jeremy Leighton John, Nancy Kuhl, Seth Shaw, and Susan Thomas October 2013. 28 pp. $0 ISBN 978-1-932326-46-8 CLIR pub 159 PDF download of report (768 KB) >> PDF of cover >>PDF of report and cover combined >> Read Japanese translation (courtesy Seigakuin Read More

Various publications and videos advocating for and describing digital preservation processes.

When I started developing websites back in the day, I was lucky to have hundreds of valuable, practical articles that would help me become better at what I did. I could learn day and night, and whenever I discovered a new tool or technique, I would bookmark it on Delicious for future reference. I knew the value of each article and of each bookmark, and I kept revisiting and carefully tagging them for months and months — almost every day.

Messing with images, one pixel/bit at a time, to check for the impact of bitrot.

Did you know that our digital library store already holds over 11,500,000 items? That’s over 280 terabytes of collection content, and more is added every day! Our blog has so far focussed on how Collection Care colleagues work to preserve the Library’s physical collections, but the Library also works to...

Good walk-thru for 668 or cont-ed course.

Software preservation

Compare-and-contrast table of DP tools

Put not your faith in cloud services. This is why.