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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

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When a private beta is closed, are the questions merged with a living site?

mar 20 at 7:35 EnergyNumbers 1,101
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Will digital preservation take into account also rare type formats?

feb 25 at 16:50 Thomas Padilla 51
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Get active on other Stack Exchange sites?

dec 24 at 9:52 Ɓukasz Lech 1,566
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Merging Digital Preservation & Libraries & Information Science?

oct 2 at 12:27 Jeni 887
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Ponder DP in the abstract or confront it in the concrete?

aug 1 at 13:05 MGallinger 151

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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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wizzard0
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"I am long time actively interested in combating bit rot, data and software decay and all that things, to preserve knowledge and history."
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"People understand that preserving physical artifacts can be useful. It's good to start early with digital knowledge."
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Jun 14 '12 at 16:07


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"Increasingly working in this area of inquiry."
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Apr 25 '12 at 15:55

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Paul Wheatley
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"Practitioners need a single point of contact for digital preservation advice. This proposal gets my full support and I will be actively participating"
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Apr 24 '12 at 22:04


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gmcgath
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"Digital preservation is a special interest of mine."
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Dec 30 '12 at 1:36

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