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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 video archive for The China Boom Project. It is the first time that RUcore has […]
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.
The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan may have far-reaching cultural and history-recording effects worldwide… possibly exacerbating a digital dark age.
The Library of Congress has made some pretty significant decisions in how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is applied, affecting how we copy DVDs, jailbreak iPhones, and even circumvent DRM on eBooks and computer software.
YouTube is definitely the wild-west for video content, and if you look hard enough, you’ll find a lot of vintage video content. Quite a few of it is uploaded by people whose rights to publish the stuff is questionable, but while it’s there and before it gets taken down, it’s pretty fascinating to come across old […]