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Improving Technical Options for Audiovisual Collections Through the PREFORMA Project

Posted by: Kate Murray

The digital preservation community is a connected and collaborative one. I first heard about the Europe-based PREFORMA project last summer at a Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative meeting when we were discussing the Digital File Formats for Videotape Reformatting comparison matrix. My interest was piqued because I heard about their incorporation of FFV1 and Matroska, …

Posted in: Digital Content, FADGI, Tools and Infrastructure

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We Welcome Our Email Overlords: Highlights from the Archiving Email Symposium

Posted by: Kate Murray

This post is co-authored with Erin Engle, a Digital Archivist in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Despite the occasional death knell claims, email is alive, well and exponentially thriving in many organizations. It’s become an increasingly complex challenge for collecting and memory institutions as we struggle with the same issues: How is email processed differently …

Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure