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Posts Tagged ‘digital preservation’
Data/Bit Rot Article
Here’s an interesting read that got posted on digg about data rot/bit rot: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/should-you-worry-about-data-rot/
I stumbled upon my teacher’s work
Today I was reading a report on PREMIS since we’re using some elements for the project I’m working on at AMPAS. The report mentioned the LA Times and sounded familiar. I was curious to who had written the report, and it ends up it was my professor last quarter in for IS 289-2 Digital Preservation, […]
Free isn’t a criteria
From Lifehacker.com jsmorley comments Sorry, but I don’t use “free” as a criteria for protecting my valuable data. I don’t use “free” as a criteria for finding a doctor or lawyer either. I use Acronis True Image Home and don’t plan to switch. It has saved my butt many times over the years.
Most Ironic Day ever
So here’s my tale of the most ironic day I’ve had during graduate school. Last quarter I was taking a Digital Preservation class. We talked about data migration, emulation, and some other ways of preserving data. And, sometimes, data just becomes corrupted and nothing works. Rediscovering the need for backups and such, I thought to myself, “I’m […]
Awesome quote
Today I was debating whether or not to buy a subscription to 30 Rock Season 3 on iTunes, and decided to find out how would I back up those files. While trolling through some forums.. I found a response post from a person saying: Digital files are like those little bits that Pac Man eats. […]
funny teacher quotes
I thought i’d be nice to post up funny quotes my teachers have said: (SeaMonkey is a mozilla browser variant) teacher: “What’s the difference between Firefox and SeaMonkey?” student: “SeaMonkey sucks” In my digital preservation class teacher: How much porn do you want to capture? … ALL of it right? This IS library school..
Preservation and Nuclear Disaster
I’m not sure why, but I can’t stop getting a kick out of this video
Digital Preservation @ Science & Tech
This past Friday I interviewed for an internship at the Motion Picture Arts of America: Science and Technology Council Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study. The internship involves the research for producing a best practices guidelines digital preservation of moving images the second half of summer. I’m hoping to get this internship as it will […]