TZX
I know it is a bit sad, but I couldn't help but feel a little flutter of happiness when I read about TZX. Just wanted to share that.
View ArticleAdvisory Board Meeting, 18 March 2011
Our second advisory board meeting took place on Friday. Thanks to everyone who came along and contributed to what was a very useful meeting. For those of you who weren't there here is a summary of the...
View ArticleWorld backup day 2011
Today is officially 'world backup day', apparently. Time to back up your files...I'm sure you know why, and perhaps even how. There are a few tips here if you want them: http://www.worldbackupday.net/
View ArticleGot any older?
Interesting article about the "oldest working Seagate drive in the UK". When we talk about storage here, eventually someone says "storage is getting cheaper". If you ever needed concrete proof, this is...
View ArticleSharp font writer files
Not a format I'd come across before, but we now have files of this type in the collections. They were written on something like this. Luckily someone has written a migration tool, and it seems to work....
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Preserving Digital Sound and Vision: A Briefing 8th April 2011
Last Friday I went along to the DPC briefing Preserving Digital Sound and Vision. I was particularly interested in the event because of digital video files currently held on DVD media at the Bodleian....
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Media recognition - Floppy Disks part 3
3 inch Disks (Mitsumi 'Quick Disk')Type:Magnetic storage mediaIntroduced:?1985Active:Unlikely. Cessation:Used in the 1980s.Capacity:?128KB - 256KBCompatibility:Requires a 3” drive appropriate to the...
View ArticleHidden Pages
Yesterday I foolishly uploaded a Pages document to my work machine (that isn't a Mac) before heading into the office. I needed the content because I was due to give it to Susan that morning. Luckily I...
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Preserving born-digital video - what are good practices?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fensterbme/1990023423/Interesting to see Killian Escobedo's post on digital video preservation over at the Smithsonian Archives' visual archives blog. Our trainee, Emma, is...
View ArticleMobile forensics
Anyone who heard Brad Glisson's talk at the DPC event on digital forensics may be interested in the paper 'A comparison of forensic evidence recovery techniques for a windows mobile smart phone'...
View ArticleComparing software tools
While looking at software relating to digital video earlier today I came across a handy website called alternativeTo. It's a useful means of comparing software applications and getting an idea of the...
View ArticleAnother source for old software
This one is called http://www.oldapps.com/. Looks like a useful range of apps.
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Day of Digital Archives, 2011
Today is officially 'Day of Digital Archives' 2011! Well, it's been quite a busy week on the digital archives front here at the Bodleian...The week began with the arrival of our new digital archives...
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What is ‘The Future of the Past of the Web’?
‘The Future of the Past of the Web’, Digital Preservation Coalition WorkshopBritish Library, 7 October 2011Chrissie Webb and Liz McCarthy In his keynote address to this event – organised by the Digital...
View ArticleDigital Preservation: What I Wish I Knew Before I Started
Tuesday 24th January, 2012Last week I attended a student conference, hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition, on what digital preservation professionals wished they had known before they started....
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Media Recognition: DV part 1
DV can be used to refer to both a digital tape format, and a codec for digital video. DV tape usually carries video encoded with the DV codec, although it can hold any type of data. The DV format was...
View ArticleMedia Recognition: DV part 2
DV (encoding)Type:Digital videotape cassette encodingIntroduced:1995Active:Yes, but tapeless formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 are becoming more popular.Cessation:-Capacity:MiniDV cassettes can...
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Media Recognition: DV part 3
DVCAM (encoding)Type:Digital videotape cassette encodingIntroduced:1996Active:Yes, but few new camcorders are being produced.Cessation:-Capacity:184 minutes (large), 40 minutes...
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SPRUCE Mashup: 16th-18th April 2012
Earlier this week I attended a 3 day mashup event in Glasgow, organised as part of the SPRUCE project. SPRUCE aims to enable Higher Education Institutions to address preservation gaps and articulate...
View ArticleSprucing up the TikaFileIdentifier
As it's International Archives Day tomorrow, I thought it would be nice to quickly share some news of a project we are working on, which should help us (and others!) to carry out digital preservation...
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