Working with legacy media
A lone arranger's first steps
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26686/arch.10692Keywords:
Digital preservation, Archives -- Data processing, Digital media, Information storage and retrieval systems -- Digital media, Audio-visual archives, Society of Mary, Whare tukunga kōreroAbstract
This article was first published in the online peer-reviewed journal, Practical Technology for Archives, Issue No. 6, June 2016. The article discusses the processes the author developed as a sole archivist with a small religious archive dealing with digital preservation of born-digital records, often in obsolete media. The process of determining the scope of the problem and collaboration with a network of other archivists are disccussed. Examples include practicing imaging and imaging floppies and hard disks to avoid continued access of originals, workflows for appraising material, preparing for imaging and choosing a format, virus checking and security, the results of the author's imaging experiments, extracting files from images, identifying unknown or corrupted data formats, and repairing disk images. The author also outlines her experiment with a known collection from her own personal use, noting how deleted material reappeared on images and the time spent wrestling with these issues. She highlights the lessons learned on imaging and processing material for preservation, and looks at a processing philosophy.
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