In Trevor Owen’s excellent blog post ‘What Do you Mean by Archive? Genres of Usage for Digital Preservers’, he outlines the different ways ‘archive’ is used to describe data sets and information management practices in contemporary society. While the article shows it is important to distinguish between tape archives, archives as records management, personal papers… Continue reading Capitalising on the archival market: SONY’s 185 TB tape cartridge
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Software Across Borders? The European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation (E-Ark) Project
The latest big news from the digital preservation world is that the European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation – (E-Ark), a three year, multinational research project, has received a £6M award from the European Commission ‘to create a revolutionary method of archiving data, addressing the problems caused by the lack of coherence and interoperability between the… Continue reading Software Across Borders? The European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation (E-Ark) Project