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Best Practices · Curation Incidents

Indiana University Moves Forward with its Media Preservation Initiative

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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.

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Vintage and Analog Formats

The last days of Kodachrome are at hand… but not film in general

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If you have any Kodachrome Film stashed away, the last days to get it developed are at hand. December 31, 2010 is the last day Dwayne’s Photo will process Kodachrome, shutting down the last commercial processing plant for the film.

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Best Practices · Vintage and Analog Formats

The scanner: workhorse of photo and document preservation

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Pretty often, I get questions by phone and e-mail from people who are just getting started with their digital preservation projects, and need to scan photos or documents.  Almost always, they seek advice about what kind of scanner to buy.  A lot of times, the questions are similar: How important is resolution? Should I spring for a […]

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Vintage and Analog Formats

Polaroid Instant Film Dead Stock to go on sale today

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If you’re interested in grabbing some of the last of Polaroid’s instant film, or even interested in picking up a Polaroidcamera, today may be your last remaining chance to do so, at least for a while.  Starting at 10:00 a.m. today, a number of Urban Outfitters stores in New York, Los Angeles, Cambridge, MA and Vancouver BC […]

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Vintage and Analog Formats

Another film format extinction: Kodachrome’s last run

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Today, Kodak announced the final production run of Kodachrome film, after a 74-year run.  Kodachrome is yet another  casualty of the long march towards digital formats, as fewer and fewer sales of Kodachrome film have meant continuing to mass produce it is no longer viable. “KODACHROME Film is an iconic product and a testament to […]

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