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How do you control for objects generated invisibly by OS X, Windows, Linux, etc?
I'm running some experiments with BagIt and noticing a surprising amount of hidden files being captured in my bags such as .ds_store, thumbs.db, and *.shs. Since these aren't essential files needed to ...
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Any tools or processes for deleting slack space from donated storage media?
Slack space poses some questions as far as "donor intent" concerning digital materials on storage media donated to archives. A donor may believe this information was deleted and not be aware it is ...
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Tools for identifying obfuscated files, specifically password protected and encrypted formats?
I am looking for tools capable of detecting and flagging up encrypted and password protected files in any given collection.
First there is a necessity for a tool that is capable of doing this and ...
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Digital preservation: questions of format and volume for a digital photography collection
Our archives has been offered over 15TB of digital photography, which we are motivated to take. Here are some of the pertinent details:
The files consistently include two versions of every image:
A ...
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Best practice for digitally redacting information from born-digital documents?
In the case of spreadsheets, databases, and other lengthy content printouts may not be practical - or the organization may be working with a remote patron online. Other born-digital formats just ...
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What is the most effective way of sorting large, unsorted electronic archive collections to enable cataloguing?
We have a number of large, unsorted electronic archive collections that have very little descriptive metadata. We have very little knowledge about the content of the collections and there is no ...
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What are the most important considerations when planning the introduction of a digital asset management system?
Rather than ask how long is a piece of string I was hoping that as a non-techie the community might give their top piece(s) of advice of do's and don'ts. Not just to recommend particular pieces of ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using ZFS for storage in a digital repository?
File systems typically divide the devices they address into discrete blocks. For instance on a system with 1024 byte blocks, a 1.5 kb file will be occupy two entire blocks. What makes ZFS different ...
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What are the tradeoffs between the various email archiving approaches?
Specifically, as email archives continue to grow quickly, are organizations finding that conventional archiving of files in Personal Storage Table (PST) or Notes Storage Format (NSF) working at the ...
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What preservation risks are associated with the PDF file format?
If the aim is to preserve access to intellectual content encoded in a PDF file, I'm interested in what risks might prevent (or increase the difficulty of) access to that content now or in the future.
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How should archives decide between creating logical or forensic disk images of drives on computers accessioned as part of personal papers collections?
The emerging workflow for bringing in born digital media to an archival collection seems to be converging on creating forensic disk images, that is bit-for-bit copies of the entire disk. This sort of ...
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What has been found to be the most effective alternate term for “digital preservation” when communicating beyond the library and archives community?
The term "digital preservation" can be a turn-off when there is a need to describe, sell or make the case for implementing this kind of work. Curation, digital stewardship, permanent access... Which ...
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Can someone suggest a good open source document management system?
I am in the process of building a web app and I know now I will need an electronic library of some sort external to the web app, so I am now looking for an open source library to plugin in to the ...
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What tools are recommended for characterising, assessing or appraising digital content acquired for preservation by an archive?
I'm particularly interested in positive (or negative!) experiences of using particular tools to extract basic technical or content focused information which can then be used to inform decisions around ...
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Are any libraries or archives officially seeding torrents of open material?
BitTorrent is a very efficient and network-friendly way of sharing large files.
When a library or archive makes available digitized holdings, data sets or something similar of course it will make ...
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Good Encoded Archival Description (EAD) books, tutorials, boilerplate?
I'm a beginner when it comes to EAD (had a metadata design studio class in grad school where we modelled EAD in SKOS/XML), but I'm looking at starting the archivist certification process and I'm ...
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Do libraries archive mailing lists as part of their collection?
This question follows the recent question on collecting threads on internet forums and archiving microblogging: do libraries actually collect, catalogue, and archive mailing lists? Thre are throusands ...
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Fixity checking in digital preservation systems
If your institution archives digital content and actively records fixity information (checksums) for files how often and how many of the files are checked? Some surveys have been done before, but I am ...
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What data format and tools exist for archiving tweets and similar microblogging?
I wonder whether there is a data format for archiving messages from twitter and similar microblogging sites, including metadata. The Library of Congress gets all messages from Twitter but I found no ...
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Are there any libraries that are trying to preserve information in Ajax-heavy websites that archive.org can't preserve?
Archive.org used to be far more useful, but now there is a huge problem - it can't archive a huge number of the Ajax-heavy websites on the Internet now.
