This time, on the link roundup, there are disappearing documents, distributed digital archives projects, inaccurate quilts, government records, and more! The Case of the Disappearing Documents [wsj.com] Archives Team: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack [youtube.com] What Facebook’s Changes Mean for Museums and Visitor Serving Organizations [colleendilen.com] Metro ‘quilt’ art draws national scrutiny for historical inaccuracy [nashvillecitypaper.com] University’s digitization […]
Tag Archives: digital preservation
Facebook’s Profile Download
As you may have heard, Facebook has been planning to allow all of its users to download all of their information. At least for my account, that promise has now become a reality. Not only is this good for people concerned with , but this is also good for archivists. Now that people have control […]
My Own Personal LOCKSS
One of the primary tools in the area of digital preservation is LOCKSS, which stands for “Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe.” It works similarly to a mirror system: your library saves whatever it wants to save to a computer, and that data is backed up on computers all over the world, on the computers […]