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BBC Domesday project: general
Brief article about the project in TNA’s RecordKeeping for Autumn 2004. Original project The original project was only possible because of a Government programme which had put a BBC Micro into every...
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Parliamentary Archives: Annual Review 2006-2007
Available online here. The Review includes a page or so on digital preservation at the PA. They seem to have been pretty busy. The PA team has: placed digi pres “at the heart of our objectives for the...
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Dioscuri: an emulator for digital preservation
Dioscuri is (as far as I am aware) the first ever emulator created specifically with long term digital preservation in mind. It is available for download from Sourceforge, and the project’s own website...
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Some arguments in favour of emulation over migration
Geoffrey Brown of the Indiana University Department of Computer Science has a nice presentation available online which talks about the CIC Floppy Disk Project, and which along the way argues the case...
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Internet Archive
There a handful of different strategies for archiving websites, of which a web-served archive is just one. The best example of a web-served archive is the Internet Archive . Tech The IA stores files of...
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Best thing on digital preservation I have read so far
This is the Paradigm (Personal Archives Accessible in DIGital Media) project workbook, published by the Bodleian Library in 2007. It’s available on the web, free, from the Paradigm project website, but...
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Library of Congress site on the Sustainability of Digital Formats
This site contains some detailed technical analyses of file formats suitable for long term preservation, as viewed through the lense of the LOC’s collecting policy. The site was compiled by Caroline R....
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GAIP: Gloucestershire Archives’ digital preservation tool
Yesterday I visited Gloucestershire Archives to have a look at their GAIP (Gloucestershire Archives Ingest Package) software. GAIP is a little Perl app which is open source and nicely platform...
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Moving a record office… with barcodes
The reason why I’ve been away from digi preservation for so long is that I’ve been managing the move of our paper archives from one repository to another. The move itself has gone more smoothly than I...
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RODA: Portugal’s new digital preservation repository
RODA (Repository of Authentic Digital Objects) is a Portuguese initiative to preserve government authentic digital objects. It is based on Fedora Commons, and supports the preservation of text...
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