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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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.
Original NASA moon landing tapes: probably gone for good
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 […]
The pitfalls of large hard drives – and national security
Well, here’s an example of how putting all your data eggs in one basket can be quite dangerous. The National Archives and Records Administration has reported the loss of an external hard drive containing a massive amount of data, the information being personal data at best, and items potentially related to national security matters at worst: The Inspector […]