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Preserving digital photos: What not to do
One of the more frequent debates that I see cropping up often in preservation circles is how best to preserve “born digital” photographs: those photos that never began as physical film, but originated...
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Evolved mobile video devices: More cameras, better quality, way more content
For two years, owners of Apple’s iPhone have complained bitterly about the lack of video recording capability, something that has become more and more common on mobile devices, if not yet matured....
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Polaroid Instant Film Dead Stock to go on sale today
If you’re interested in grabbing some of the last of Polaroid’s instant film, or even interested in picking up a Polaroidcamera, today may be your last remaining chance to do so, at least for a while....
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The case for improved large file support in digital repositories
As the person responsible for handling the various file formats in RUcore, the digital library repository for Rutgers University Libraries, I’ve been looking with trepidation at the increasing sizes...
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NY Times Article on the realities and costs of Born Digital preservation
Salman Rushdie. Source: Wikipedia. Click on image for link to source. The New York Times today published an article that reflects some of the challenges of preserving born digital content – that is,...
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The last days of Kodachrome are at hand… but not film in general
If you have any Kodachrome Film stashed away, the last days to get it developed are at hand. According to Dwayne’s Photo, the last commercial developer of the film format, they will be developing...
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Using consistent file naming conventions for digital preservation projects
Some of our best digital preservation projects have been the direct result of collaboration; working with dozens of separate entities that all have valuable materials that they want to share with the...
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Japan’s Crises, and its ramifications on digital preservation
A Sony HVR-Z1U camera. This device is a digital video workhorse at the SCC, and relies heavily on digital video tape... something which could be rather hard to come by in the near future. My heart,...
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Indiana University Moves Forward with its Media Preservation Initiative
1/2 inch, consumer, open reel video format used in the 1960s-70s. This format suffers from Sticky Shed Syndrome, making playback difficult. Working machines for this long-obsolete format are scarce....
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Floppy disks and modern gadgets: Keeping a safe distance
Never do this: smartphones can be deadly to magnetically stored data in some circumstances. In my dealings with preserving older, born-digital documents and data, I’ve run into this situation quite...
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