Digital Preservation 2014, the annual meeting of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance is currently taking place in Washington, DC in the US. The Library of Congress’s digital preservation blog The Signal is a regular reading stop for us, largely because it contains articles and interviews that… Continue reading Digital preservations, aesthetics and approaches
Tag: Theory
Capitalising on the archival market: SONY’s 185 TB tape cartridge
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