Archipelproject: Introduction (Preserving our History in a Sustainable Digital Way series)

Archipel is a project based on the finding that a sustainable digital archive infrastructure is needed in Flanders in order to ensure a structural approach to the problem of digital archiving. The  project is also based on the fact that there is an important role for players from the world of arts, cultural and scientific heritage and education in the …

Film Preservation in the Digital Age

MoMA Blog by Arthur Wehrhahn about its efforts to preserve films, the background and importance of film preservation, and about the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center, where this valuable works take place and where the Museum stores all of its films in climate-controlled conditions to prevent any further deterioration. Containing a video of a tour by the author.

Timeline: Digital Technology and Preservation

This Digital Preservation and Technology Timeline was designed by IPCSR and Cornell University for the Digital Preservation Management Tutorial. The timeline was designed to identify significant precedents and milestones- professional, organizational and technological, to illustrate the combination of developments, events and decisions that got us to where we are today, and to help place new and emerging technologies into context …

DSHR’s blog

This is David Rosenthal’s blog, discussing his work in digital preservation at LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) of Stanford University. David Rosenthal is investigating peer-to-peer techniques for fault and attack tolerance in the LOCKSS program at Stanford, and is also responsible for the OpenBSD-based network appliance technology that most LOCKSS peers use. The LOCKSS program is aimed at …

British Library – Digital Preservation

This website contains a collection of information on digital preservation, in the British Library itself as well as in general. The British Library is collecting and creating an increasing amount of material in various digital formats. This material must be preserved for future use. The diversity of digital material and frequent changes in computer technology present challenges for long-term preservation …