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Original NASA moon landing tapes: probably gone for good

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40 years ago, the Apollo 11 mission blasted off into space, making history as the first successful human landing on the moon.  Unfortunately, NPR reports that after much searching, it looks like the best possible copies of the video that recorded this momentous event have long been erased: Over the years, NASA had removed massive numbers of […]

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Preserving digital photos: What not to do

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One of the more frequent debates that I see cropping up often in preservation circles is how best to preserve “born digital” photographs: those photos that never began as physical film, but originated on a digital camera. This isn’t an easy topic. There is no industry standard for born digital image preservation. Digital cameras of […]

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