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Indiana University Moves Forward with its Media Preservation Initiative

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Isaiah Beard

The Media Preservation Site at Indiana University – Bloomington (IUB) makes its message plain and clear the moment you first set your eyes on it: “Our History is At Risk.” Home to at least 3 million media objects, including sound and moving image recordings, photos, documents, and artifacts, IUB has come to grips with the issue at hand: a great deal of their heritage is locked within obsolete electronic and analog playback formats for sound and moving images. And they’re doing something about it. Continue reading →

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Japan’s Crises, and its ramifications on digital preservation

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Isaiah Beard

The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan may have far-reaching cultural and history-recording effects worldwide… possibly exacerbating a digital dark age. Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned from Google’s temporary Gmail loss

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Isaiah Beard

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. Continue reading →

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Reel2Bytes: Digitizing 1950s-era analog tape

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Isaiah Beard

Of all the work I do, I think dealing with older formats, and just figuring out how they work, is the most interesting aspect. A few weeks ago, a stack of old open real tapes arrived, along with a similar-vintage … Continue reading →

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Original NASA moon landing tapes: probably gone for good

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Isaiah Beard

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 … Continue reading →

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