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RUcore, Digital Video, and the China Boom
Recently, members of the Rutgers University Libraries at both integrated Information Systems and the Scholarly Communication Center began an auspicious collaboration with the Asia Society in New York City, in our first project to digitally preserve, to standards, their digital … Continue reading
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Tagged archive, curation, digital, Final Cut Pro, formats, preservation, repository, RUcore, video
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Digital preservation goes rogue: ArchiveTeam scrapes the web to preserve heritage
One of the big problems with the web is its inherent lack of permanence. There is no formal archiving structure, and like anything digital, it’s very easy for something deemed important by someone to just disappear overnight, with little or no notice.
Now it appears that, for better or for worse, a grass-roots group of rouge archivists are working to do something about it… whether we like it or not. Continue reading
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Tagged archive, backup, cloud, loss, preservation, rogue, web
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Indiana University Moves Forward with its Media Preservation Initiative
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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Tagged analog, archive, Bloomington, curation, data, film, format, formats, Indiana, initiative, loss, LP, moving images, obsolete, preservation, sound, tape, video
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Keeping Your Stuff Safe, Part 2: the Local Route
All, right, so you’ve heard it over and over and again, and you know it’s true: you need to make regular backups of your stuff. But how? What options do typical computer users have? In the past few years, the … Continue reading
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Tagged archive, backup, computer, curation, data, disc, hard drive, local, loss, preservation, storage
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Keeping Your Stuff Safe, Part 1: Why you need a Plan B
An introduction to the “Keeping Your Continue reading
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Tagged archive, backup, computer, curation, data, disc, hard drive, loss, preservation, storage
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