Tag Archives: preservation

Scanning is different from digitisation

If you haven’t seen it, can I recommend Kristen Snawder’s recent post on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation blog, Digitization is different than digital preservation. Kristen reiterates familiar points about the long-term commitment necessary for serious digital preservation, contrasted with the quick hit of a scanning project. “In the hurry to meet user expectations, [...]

Asynchronicities in blog structure

At an atomic level, a “blog” comprises “blog posts”, which are continually added to the blog corpus: that is the dynamic essence of a blog, and distinguishes it from old-fashioned, largely static Websites and hypertexts in which little content changed between major update iterations, which process was probably more akin to “publishing a new edition” [...]

File formats…or data streams?

On 1st December Malcolm Todd of The National Archives gave a good account of the work he’s been doing on File Formats for Preservation, resulting in a substantial new Technology Watch report for the DPC. It was a seminar hosted by William Kilbride, with participants from the BBC, the BL, NLW and others. The afternoon [...]

On the limits of preservation

A recent article in New Scientist on the outer fringes of the chiptune scene prompted me to think about preservation, emulation and the fact that some digital things simply aren’t preservable in any useful sense. Chiptunes are typically created using early personal computers or videogames and/or their soundchips. In that respect, they depend on technology [...]

rpmeet – the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting

Some of us at ULCC, and over 100 other people from around the UK, spent a couple of days this week at the Aston Business School reviewing the outcomes of JISC’s repositories and preservation programme and looking forward to what comes next. It was a useful and stimulating couple of days – the best programme [...]