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The pitfalls of large hard drives – and national security
Well, here’s an example of how putting all your data eggs in one basket can be quite dangerous. The National Archives and Records Administration has reported the loss of an external hard drive...
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Original NASA moon landing tapes: probably gone for good
40 years ago, the Apollo 11 mission blasted off into space, making history as the first successful human landing on the moon. Unfortunately, NPR reports that after much searching, it looks like the...
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Google’s Neglected Archive
Controversial as it may be to archivists of both the digital and analog realms, Google is often seen as the ubiquitous oracle of record by the general online population. Websites (including...
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NY Times Article on the realities and costs of Born Digital preservation
Salman Rushdie. Source: Wikipedia. Click on image for link to source. The New York Times today published an article that reflects some of the challenges of preserving born digital content – that is,...
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Lessons Learned from Google’s temporary Gmail loss
GMail kept users notified through a status page of their ongoing recovery efforts. This past week offered up a little dose of panic to an estimated tens of thousands of users to Google’s free Gmail...
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Japan’s Crises, and its ramifications on digital preservation
A Sony HVR-Z1U camera. This device is a digital video workhorse at the SCC, and relies heavily on digital video tape... something which could be rather hard to come by in the near future. My heart,...
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In the Cloud, you can’t choose your neighbors
Some recent, high-profile security-related events are adding another wrinkle of complexity for those who are trusting the cloud for their data storage and content delivery: who your neighbors are, and...
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Indiana University Moves Forward with its Media Preservation Initiative
1/2 inch, consumer, open reel video format used in the 1960s-70s. This format suffers from Sticky Shed Syndrome, making playback difficult. Working machines for this long-obsolete format are scarce....
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Digital preservation goes rogue: ArchiveTeam scrapes the web to preserve...
MobileMe was shut down on July 1 by Apple, as part of its efforts to transition users to other services. Not making the transition, however, were users’ public web sites, shareable Photo Galleries and...
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Lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy, on the digital front
A Con Ed worker makes efforts to restore power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The East Coast’s Infrastructure was heavily damaged by this storm, testing not just our survival skills, but how well we...
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On putting old software out to pasture
Three generations of Windows operating system versions. Upper left: Windows 8.1, the current release from Microsoft. Upper right: Windows 7, its predecessor and likely upgrade candidate for most...
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Floppy disks and modern gadgets: Keeping a safe distance
Never do this: smartphones can be deadly to magnetically stored data in some circumstances. In my dealings with preserving older, born-digital documents and data, I’ve run into this situation quite...
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