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Important series of reports on specific digital-preservation problems and available solutions.
wepreserve provides access to original videos introducing key issues in digital preservation. The majority are animations intended to provide memorable presentations of key topics and issues related to preservation and curation of our heritage for future generations.
The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists felons if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations.
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council, National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group co-chair and a former Fellow in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In this installment of the Insights Interviews series, a project of the Innovation Working Group of the […]
A quick (as these things go) checklist for assessing where a digital collection is at and what it needs.
"By “long” data, I mean datasets that have massive historical sweep — taking you from the dawn of civilization to the present day."
A team of curators takes up the challenge of preserving computer art .
Eyebeam's media archive weathers the storm, but backing up is hard to do
The Library of Congress occupies three massive and ornate buildings in the center of Washington, D.C. But those edifices house just part of the collection, which spans hundreds of miles of shelves …
Learn about the project.
PRONOM file-format guide. Searchable.
Analog-digital distinction. Bit preservation.
Avant-garde art-creation location (including digital art) tries for recovery after Hurricane Sandy. Lots on obsolescing physical digital media e.g. CDs.
I  had the distinct pleasure of hearing about the on-going development of the free and open-source Archivematica digital preservation system twice this year. First, from Peter Van Garderen at the CurateGear conference and second from Courtney Mumma at a recent briefing on the project for staff at The Library of Congress. Peter and Courtney both […]