Japan’s Crises, and its ramifications on digital preservation
The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan may have far-reaching cultural and history-recording effects worldwide… possibly exacerbating a digital dark age.
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The NSF now requires academic researchers to come up with a plan to store and share their digital research data. RUcore is here to help.
Lessons Learned from Google’s temporary Gmail loss
This past week offered up a little dose of panic to an estimated tens of thousands of users to Google’s free Gmail service, when they logged in to discover that all of their e-mail was missing. This event should be seen as an opportunity for users of Cloud services to reflect on how important that stored data is to them, and what impact it would have on their lives if that content were lost.
Preserving Video: Different Solutions for a Growing Problem
The drumbeat continues to sound for the preservation of obsolete and endangered moving image formats. As older tape formats become unplayable, either through decay or lack of equipment to play them back, the urgency grows to find ways to preserve their content using modern digital formats. But what digital format should be used to preserve this content in the digital space, and help ensure that we aren’t finding ourselves in the same obsolescence predicament right away?
Using consistent file naming conventions for digital preservation projects
One of biggest problems we’ve run into has been how people name files after they’ve created or digitized them. In this article, I’ll list some of the basic recommendations that ensure file processing on a digital library project will go smoothly. I’ll also point out some tips and tricks that have worked well for us in projects handled at the Digital Curation Research Center.