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Archive: January 2014 (3 Posts)

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Interface, Exhibition & Artwork: Geocities, Deleted City and the Future of Interfaces to Digital Collections

Posted by: Trevor Owens

In 2009, a band of rogue digital preservationists called Archive Team did their best to collect and preserve Geocities. The resulting data has became the basis for at least two works of art: Deleted City and One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age. I think the story of this data set and these works offer insights into the …

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File Format Action Plans in Theory and Practice

Posted by: Trevor Owens

The following is a guest post from Lee Nilsson, a National Digital Stewardship Resident working with the Repository Development Center at The Library of Congress.  The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship makes a clear-cut case for the development of File Format Action Plans to combat format obsolescence issues. “Now that stewardship organizations are amassing large collections of digital …