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Use Free Tools to Manage and Preserve Your Digital Photographs

The time had finally arrived: I had to bring some order to my large and disorderly collection of digital photographs.  I had been putting the task off for a long time in spite of the fact that I knew I...

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Let’s Talk Differently About the Future: Dump “Digital Dark Ages” for...

What should we call our future with regard to saving and using digital information? Billions and Billions Served, by Miss Millificent, on Flickr I think one common term misses the mark in conveying the...

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How Emotionally Attached are You to Your Personal Digital Archives?

Digging Through The Archives Tonight (Stage 1), by raider3_anime, on Flickr Evan Carroll, over on The Digital Beyond, asks in a recent post about how personal digital archives might serve the same...

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Scalable Heroics: Personal Digital Archiving Fills Library, Archives and...

Terra Cotta Archivists, Internet Archive I attended the Personal Digital Archiving conference in San Francisco last week. Some of the usual suspects in the world of digital preservation where there,...

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Is The Digital Pileup Too Damn High?

Yesterday’s New York Times had an Op-Ed article about a problem I’ll bet you never thought of: The Digital Pileup. The essence of the article, with apologies to Jimmy McMillan, is that  the amount of...

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Our Relationship with Digital Preservation: It’s Complicated

Digital preservation used to be the affair of a few geeky keepers who recognized the value of lonely, obscure data.  But as information technology has spread across our culture, we are developing an...

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Innovation, Disruption and the Democratization of Digital Preservation

Innovation is one of those words that is as loaded as it is inescapable. It appears constantly on billboards, TV commercials and political speeches. I’ll wager every big organization in the world lays...

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Digital Preservation, Digital Curation, Digital Whatever: What’s the Right Term?

There is a polite but persistent disagreement among librarians, archivists and other normally peaceful souls who care about keeping digital information accessible into the future.  The conflict is low...

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The Year of Blogging Vigorously: Digital Preservation and Social Media Outreach

This post consists of edited remarks I gave to the 17th Brazilian Conference of Archival Science/XVII Congresso Brasileiro de Arquivologia held in Rio de Janeiro in June of this year.  These remarks...

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Digital Preservation: A Role for Public Libraries

This post is based on remarks I presented during a Digital Dialog at the University of Maryland, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, on 9/25/2012. Personal Digital Archiving Outreach,...

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