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Digital Preservation

Q&A site for professionals working to ensure long term access to digital objects.

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<Comments removed> If you have questions or comments about this proposal, please click 'create new discussion' below. – Robert Cartaino♦ Apr 24 '12 at 19:17

Top Example Questions

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What are the most essential technical/how-to guides that anyone getting started in digital preservation should read?

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What tools and best practices (standards, preferred formats) are there for the acquisition and preservation of email?

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What storage format(s) (digital and physical) will hold up the longest?

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What is fixity, and when and how should my organization be checking files for it?

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Where are there listings of current tools and services for digital preservation?


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Apr 24 '12 at 21:20


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"Interested in automation methods,processes & equipment for the digitization of material & once in digital form,the organisation of content"
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May 10 '12 at 12:22

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"Very much interested and invested in digital preservation, and develop/sell software that pertains to it."
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"Digital data and digital objects can be volatile over long periods of time both because of obsolescence and limitation behind the tech due to lowcost."
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Oct 25 '12 at 11:17


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"This is a great resource for anyone interested in digital stewardship. It will help the work of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance especially."
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Apr 24 '12 at 20:49


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"I develop hosting platform for scientific journals and have worked on digital preservation platforms."
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May 17 '12 at 23:22


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"My interest in genealogy got me to the genealogy proposal on area51 and digital preservation is needed in this field"
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Sep 14 '12 at 13:02


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