Preservation Actions

Beginning of this year we reported on first results of a joint Archives New Zealand and University of Freiburg data recovery project of a set of 5.25 inch floppy disks from the early 1990s. After recovering the raw bitstreams from the floppy disks with a special hardware device the resulting image files were sent over to Freiburg for further analysis.

FIDO version 1.0.0 released

By mauricederooij on 27 February 2012 – 11:24pm

FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is a Python command line tool to identify the file formats of digital objects. A lot of improvements to the code and functionality have been made.

User story: archiving a FoxPro database

By Kris Dekeyser on 13 February 2012 – 12:35pm

As a first encounter with database archiving, FoxPro is a nice challenge. This is the story of our first database archiving attempt.

How does lossy JP2 image compression influence OCR?

By shsdev on 13 February 2012 – 11:29am

Many institutions have been doing large scale digitisation projects during the last decade, and the question how to store the digital master images in a cost effective way made the JPEG2000 image format more popular in the library, museums, and archives community. Especially the lossy JP2 encoding of page image masters turned out to provide a good balance between reducing the file size and preserving the visible properties of a master image.

Rendering Matters Report

By ecochrane on 2 February 2012 – 3:42am

Maintaining the ability of an organisation or user to be able to “open” or “render” a file or set of files is one of the core digital preservation challenges. The Rendering Matters Report outlines the results of research conducted at Archives New Zealand investigating whether changes are introduced to th

Digital Archaeology and Forensics

By Dirk von Suchodoletz on 3 January 2012 – 9:37pm

Archives New Zealand and the University of Freiburg are cooperating on a data recovery project. The archive received a set of 5.25 inch floppy disks from the early 1990s that contained records of a public organization dating back to the mid 1980s. These floppies were not readable in standard X86 machines with a 5,25 inch floppy drive attached to it.

Sustainable Business Through Sustainable Emulation

By Dirk von Suchodoletz on 28 November 2011 – 9:39pm

Following up on the idea of system imaging or “snapshotting” discussed in a previous post and presented at this year’s iPRES 2011, a general concept of long-term sustainable computer systems could emerge. Why not take emulation into consideration when designing future systems and defining their requirements?

Ipres 2012

By becky on 23 November 2011 – 12:17pm

Date:

30 September 2012 to 5 October 2012

Location:

Toronto

Canada

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Event Types:

Conference

Preservation Topics:

Preservation Actions

Preservation Strategies

Resources

Emulation Reading Room Prototype

By Dirk von Suchodoletz on 17 November 2011 – 9:42am

The typical reading room computer in libraries, archives and often museums is equipped with a way for patrons to search and browse the institutions catalogues and digital collections. The digital collections are often rather restricted by the systems to making accessible only a few of today’s multimedia formats and documents types (for example PDF, jpeg and a few audio or video formats).

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