All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'digital preservation'
Blog entries tagged 'digital preservation'
Ars longa, vita brevis…
An interesting article in the Observer a few weeks ago again raised the issue of the transitory nature of digital media, in this case photographs.
Read blog entry...Videogames: the impossible archive
Film academic Federico Giordano (Università di Udine) has written an enlightening (if slightly wistful) paper on the impossibility of preserving videogames.
Read blog entry...Sounding safe? How digital recordings are more at risk than your 78s
A new study released by the Library of Congress casts shadows on ignoring the issues of preservation in sound archives, stating that digital technology alone cannot be relied on to preserve sound recordings for the future.
Read blog entry...Digital preservation cartoon takes to the mountains
We've been waiting for the latest instalment of the Team Digital Preservation cartoon series and here it is at last.
Read blog entry...Film preservation at the Library of Congress
Creative Cow has published a wonderful article from Ken Weissman, supervisor of the Film Preservation Lab at the Library of Congress in the US.
Read blog entry...Death of the A: drive
The Floppy Disc is dead! Long live the cloud/USB stick/compact flash, err...
Read blog entry...CHARM sound search engine
A new music repository from King's College London, the CHARM Sound File Search engine allows the user to browse and search a library of around 5,000 individual sides of 78s, digitised to a high standard.
Read blog entry...Digital preservation cartoon strikes again
Hot on the heels of their second adventure, Team Digital Preservation are back!
Read blog entry...Another thrilling adventure…
We love the second in a series of amusing cartoons promoting digital preservation from DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE).
Read blog entry...Seminar slides now available
The presentation slides from our two recent digital media seminars are now available.
Read blog entry...Free-to-attend digitisation seminars
JISC Digital Media have just announced a series of free-to-attend seminars in September.
Read blog entry...A world of noise
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Report from Enhanced Digital Cinema Event, BFI
EDCine Event, British Film Institute, London May28th 2009.
Read blog entry...Cartoon promotes digital preservation
An excellent short animation from DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) aims to spread the word about digital preservation in an easy to follow format.
Read blog entry...Launch of Europeana, the European online library
There’s a nice news post about it on the BBC website.
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