Archive: July 2014 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Mike Ashenfelder; (Year) 2014; (Month) July

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Art is Long, Life is Short: the XFR Collective Helps Artists Preserve Magnetic and Digital Works

July 29, 2014

XFR STN (“Transfer Station”) is a grass-roots digitization and digital-preservation project that arose as a response from the New York arts community to rescue creative works off of aging or obsolete audiovisual formats and media. The digital files are stored by the Library of Congress’s NDIIPP partner the Internet Archive and accessible for free online. At the …

Posted in: Digital Content

End-of-Life Care for Aging, Fragile CDs and Their Data Content

July 2, 2014

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Many institutions and individuals that use CDs as a storage medium are now concerned because information technologists have deemed the medium to be unsuitable for long-term use. As a result, institutions are racing to get the data off the discs as quickly and safely as possible and into a more reliable digital storage environment. Two …

Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events

Refined by: (Author) Mike Ashenfelder; (Year) 2014; (Month) July