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Vatican library goes digital - Independent Catholic News

Vatican library goes digital - Independent Catholic News | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
Vatican library goes digitalIndependent Catholic NewsTo preserve these fragile treasures and make them available to scholars and historians around the world, the Vatican is launching a multi-year project to digitize, store, archive and make the...
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» O’Reilly Talks about Digital Preservation - Blog of the Long Now

Always loved this talk by @timoreilly - good to watch it again and remind me about all its points - http://t.co/1LArdgHrYn
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bwFLA – Funktionale Langzeitarchivierung » bwFLA Project (en) «

bwFLA – Funktionale Langzeitarchivierung » bwFLA Project (en) « | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
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sat in on the OPF webinar -- there is awlays a aplace for emulation especilayy when the digtal object requires

 

1. user interaction such as computer games

2. complexity such as digital art or datasets

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Report on Digital Preservation and Cloud Services

Report on Digital Preservation and Cloud Services | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
One of the most valuable aspects of the Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is that it provides a forum for sharing expertise and experience among institutions trying to preserve the nation's digital heritage.
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Score Model

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Score Model. Website. Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland, PACKED. 2013.
This score model guides you through the risks and
threats to digital materials.
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Video Game Preservation at Scale: An Interview with Henry Lowood | The Signal: Digital Preservation

Video Game Preservation at Scale: An Interview with Henry Lowood | The Signal: Digital Preservation | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
Video Game Preservation at Scale: An Interview with Henry Lowood. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2013-02-01.
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DPN_March_2013.pdf

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PASIG Meeting, Washington, DC May 22-24, 2013

A half-day member meeting of the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), will offer DPN Members and other interested parties the opportunity to drill down into the network's emerging architecture and service model.
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Embedded Metadata Extraction Tool (EMET) | ARTstor

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will give it a go and let you know how it goes

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Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to 'Long Data' | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to 'Long Data' | Wired Opinion | Wired.com | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
Our species can’t seem to escape big data. We have more data inputs, storage, and computing resources than ever, so Homo sapiens naturally does what it has always done when given new tools: it goes even bigger, higher, and bolder.
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so with long data comes long term preservation 

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8th International Digital Curation Conference | Digital Curation Centre

Pierre Couchet's curator insight, January 8, 3:53 AM
"Infrastructure, Intelligence, Innovation: driving the Data Science agenda" - 14 - 16 January 2013 - Amsterdam
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English Tutorial | dpworkshop.org

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The Art of Selecting Digital Content to Preserve

http://ala.org/alcts An ALCTS webinar. This webinar focuses on the basic first questions we all must answer in order to begin developing a digital preservati...
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NCPTT | Applications of Digital Photogrammetric Methods for Preservation Documentation of Historic Homes. (2012-11)

NCPTT | Applications of Digital Photogrammetric Methods for Preservation Documentation of Historic Homes. (2012-11) | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
RT @ncptt: Applications of Digital Photogrammetric Methods for Preservation Documentation of Historic Homes. (2012-11) http://t.co/XVX8lhCJ
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Rendering Matters - Report on the results of research into digital object rendering - Archives New Zealand. Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Rendering Matters - Report on the results of research into digital object rendering - Archives New Zealand. Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
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Invitation to Tender for Archive Management System

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always godd to get someone else's requiremnets document

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Announcing a Free “Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving” Publication

Announcing a Free “Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving” Publication | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
We are very excited to unveil our new e-publication, Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving! This is something new for us: a published compilation of selected blog posts published in The Signal.
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Webinar - Current Best Practices in Digital Archiving Moving Image and Sound Assets

Webinar - Current Best Practices in Digital Archiving Moving Image and Sound Assets | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
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the last seminar was quite good -- so i am hoping that this session will be great as well 

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Digital Preservation Network - Digital Preservation Network Community - DuraSpace Wiki

Digital Preservation Network - Digital Preservation Network Community - DuraSpace Wiki | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
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Fighting the Ongoing War with Digital Obsolescence One Day at a Time

Fighting the Ongoing War with Digital Obsolescence One Day at a Time | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
Personal stories of strife on the topic of Digital Obsolescence from one of our own POWRR team members who is the Digital Collections Curator at Northern Illinois University. (RT @DigiArchivist: Digital assets stranded on Gilligan's Island.
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attended a meeting the other day -- the ICT techs where right on the archiving of files -- but they did not think about format obselescence

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CURATEcamp | A series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation

CURATEcamp | A series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
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Self-Preservation through Personal Digital Archiving | WITNESS Blog

Self-Preservation through Personal Digital Archiving | WITNESS Blog | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
TDU: Self-Preservation through Personal Digital Archiving - http://t.co/5Ax7Fpi7X0 http://t.co/5Ax7Fpi7X0
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Is JPEG-2000 a Preservation Risk? | The Signal: Digital Preservation

Is JPEG-2000 a Preservation Risk?. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2013-01-28.
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some intersting thougts about what makes a format open

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File Formats Blog

File Formats Blog | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
News and comments about technical issues relating to file formats, file validation, and archival software.
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readiness.pdf

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What Resolution Should I Use? Part Two

What Resolution Should I Use?  Part Two | Digital Preservation | Scoop.it
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives In part 1 of this blog series, we saw that manufacturers claimed “resolution” is based on the number of steps per inch a small motor moves...
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