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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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Your tweets, saved for eternity

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Isaiah Beard

With over 12 billion 140-character messages and growing, Twitter has exploded onto the social networking scene since the first Tweet ever posted roughly fours ago.  Those tiny text-based messages add up: That’s an estimated 1.5 terabaytes of data, and growing! … Continue reading →

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NY Times Article on the realities and costs of Born Digital preservation

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Isaiah Beard

The New York Times today published an article that reflects some of the challenges of preserving born digital content – that is, documents, data and other content that has been created digitally, on a computer or electronic device, and for … 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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New Scientist article on “Digital Doomsday”

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Isaiah Beard

One of the topics I like to bring up in the discussion of preserving digital data is the idea of a Digital Dark Age… the notion of a period in our historic knowledge that ends up getting lost due to … Continue reading →

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