Digital preservation has been happening since the 1980s in the civilian world and probably for at least two decades before that in the military world. The science of creating digital backups of data in order to prevent them from being lost is really as much an art as it is a science. This is especially true if you consider what the first part of the digital preservation movement was like. (more…)
If there is one thing that has really caused the explosion of digital preservation yet is something that nobody ever talks about, it would have to be the introduction of the universal serial bus standard. The USB standard is one that is on every new computer sold. You probably already know where the USB ports on your computer are because you typically use them today for plugging in your mouse and keyboard but they have a far more direct relationship with the increase in popularity of mass digital preservation. (more…)
Most people have spent some time looking at an Atlas, if not on their own or as part of looking for road directions they have at least done so in geography class in school. As the world starts to get closer together, geographic and spatial information is starting to become far more important to the average person. This is why a whole new section of digital preservation has really taken off within the last decade. (more…)
Digital preservation is a great way to take analog information and transform it into easily storable digital information. Doing this will make it easier for others to access that information as well as preserve it for future generations long after the originals have ceased to be functional for viewing.
One of the main strengths of digital preservation is how diverse it is in terms of what you can actually store. It started out with books and text-based objects a couple of decades ago, but nowadays you can pretty much store anything you want in digital format for later use. (more…)
Digital preservation or backing up data for future access has been increasingly challenging for the past few years. While technology has advanced in a very fast pace in terms of storage capabilities, these advances are actually placing the data collected in the past at risk. The information gathered used technologies that are no longer used today. A good example is the data stored in a floppy disk. This type of storage device was very useful from mid to late 90s. Today, you’ll be required to purchase a separate hardware just to read a floppy disk. The common mass-storage device as of this writing is the portable hard drive but it can be easily replaced after a decade with a new hardware. (more…)
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