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On putting old software out to pasture
Tomorrow marks an important milestone in the lifecycle of computer software, and should be a day of concern for perhaps hundreds of millions of computer users worldwide. April 8, 2014 is the final day that Microsoft will provide extended support … Continue reading
Posted in Curation Incidents, Significant Events, Vintage and Analog Formats
Tagged computer, curation, Microsoft, preservation, retrocomputing, Windows, XP
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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
Posted in Best Practices
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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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. Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Curation Incidents
Tagged cloud, computer, data, digital, disaster, Google, loss, storage, tape
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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. Continue reading
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Tagged computer, convention, digitization, file, format, naming
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