‘Digitisation' is a process in which analogue materials become digital, while ‘transcoding' is the shift from one digital format to another digital format. This brief paper looks at some common situations which call for transcoding, such as when ‘migrating' data to new formats in order to avoid obsolescence.
Read full advice document...Hot on the heels of their second adventure, Team Digital Preservation are back!
Read blog entry...We love the second in a series of amusing cartoons promoting digital preservation from DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE).
Read blog entry...If you're like me, you may have wondered at some point how to download/back-up all of your full size Flickr images. Dan Benjamin of Hivelogic has a solution that uses a python script to solve this pesty issue.
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