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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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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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Retrocomputing: Remembering technologies past

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Isaiah Beard

Even as technology marches on, there is a slowly growing enthusiasm for looking back on the history of computing, and preserving those still-working specimens of obsolete systems and vintage hardware and software that exist. The movement is known as retrocomputing, and although … Continue reading →

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