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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
Posted in Active Projects
Tagged archive, curation, digital, Final Cut Pro, formats, preservation, repository, RUcore, video
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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
Posted in Best Practices, Curation Incidents
Tagged analog, archive, Bloomington, curation, data, film, format, formats, Indiana, initiative, loss, LP, moving images, obsolete, preservation, sound, tape, video
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Sony starts MiniDisc, a staple of broadcast audio playback, on its path to obsolescence
In an era where music is downloaded, synced, and played back wirelessly, the writing is on the wall for most physical containers of digital media, and MiniDisc could be among the first of many types of this physical media to go obsolete in the near future.
On July 7, Sony announced that production of MiniDisc playback equipment would cease in September, with the manufacturing of blank media to end approximately one year later. Soon to be gone, it shouldn’t be forgotten, as MiniDisc is a valuable case study in the effect of format wars, and how adoption of a medium can be hampered by Digital Rights Management and poor business decisions. Continue reading
Posted in Vintage and Analog Formats
Tagged ATRAC, digital, formats, MiniDisc, obsolete, Sony
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New Scientist article on “Digital Doomsday”
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
Posted in Worst Practices
Tagged archive, computer, digital, disaster, formats, hard drive, obsolete, storage
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Designing and Implementing a Center for Digital Curation Research
The facility I work in at Rutgers, known as the Scholarly Communication Center (SCC), has a fairly short history in the grand scheme of academia, and yet a fairly long one when it comes to the rapid changes in technology it … Continue reading
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Tagged curation, data, digital, facility, formats, presentations, preservation, repository, tools
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