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More on *very* long term digital preservation
And by long term, I mean after the end of technological civilisation, as explored in my earlier post here. Richard Heinberg’s Post-Carbon Institute blog has a post about the importance of librar… more →
Alans notes and thoughts on digital preservation
More on *very* long term digital preservation
alanake wrote 1 month ago: And by long term, I mean after the end of technological civilisation, as explored in my earlier post … more →
When will digital preservation come to an end?
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alanake wrote 1 year ago: Well, the short answer is 2037, plus or minus a few years. That’s not a flippant answer, eithe … more →
Digital business records and the recession
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alanake wrote 1 year ago: Local authority archive services in the UK tend to have very good collections of parish records and … more →
GAIP: Gloucestershire Archives' digital preservation tool
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alanake wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I visited Gloucestershire Archives to have a look at their GAIP (Gloucestershire Archives … more →
List of problems with web archiving approaches
alanake wrote 1 year ago: The problems of domain crawls The legal approach is usually a risk-based one, ie. harvest the conten … more →
Web archiving
alanake wrote 1 year ago: Review of and notes from Julien Masanes’s chapter on web archiving in Deegan and Tanner’ … more →
Summary of what I think
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alanake wrote 1 year ago: Time for a round-up: Always keep the original bitstream of a digital resource, no matter what applic … more →
"Secrets and Lies" by Bruce Schneier
alanake wrote 1 year ago: Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (23 Jan 2004) ; ISBN-10: 0471453803. Available from Amazon. OK, so … more →
The impact of emulation on creators' pyschology
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alanake wrote 1 year ago: Most creators of digital records do not care tuppence about the long term preservation of their docu … more →
I have a cup of coffee
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alanake wrote 1 year ago: Picture this: 1 I have a cup of coffee. I write a message on the froth, by sprinkling cocoa powder i … more →
Borghoff et al: Emulation
alanake wrote 1 year ago: Notes from Borghoff et al. Emulation has some notable advantages over migration, not least that it g … more →
DPE Position Paper: 'So Where is the Black Hole in our Collective Memory?
alanake wrote 1 year ago: From Listserve Jan 07 “DigitalPreservationEurope is pleased to announce the release of the sec … more →
Online storage
alanake wrote 1 year ago: American legal firms are now using online storage for their digital preservation: http://www.interne … more →
Summary of our organisation's current digital preservation strategy
alanake wrote 1 year ago: Here’s what got approved last year: Records are always accepted for preservation if they (a) m … more →
Thoughts on costs of digital vs. paper
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alanake wrote 1 year ago: I’m not aware of any costings which have actually been done, but my gut feeling is that the ba … more →
Saving everything onto paper
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alanake wrote 1 year ago: There is the issue of authenticity. The individual printing out the record often has a certain level … more →
Spreadsheet authenticity
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alanake wrote 1 year ago: Preserving a spreadsheet on its own isn’t enough. As with word processed documents, you need t … more →
Open Document Format
alanake wrote 1 year ago: Unlike Microsoft’s suite, which creates files in a proprietary formats, Open Office’s fi … more →
Conversion to RTF
alanake wrote 1 year ago: RTF is Rich Text Format. Microsoft have published the format, so in that sense it’s open, but … more →
