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Bob, Where Do You Keep Your Grammys®?

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The location was not arbitrary: many of the original recordings responsible for those awards are lovingly stored nearby, at the Library of Congress’ National Audiovisual Conservation Center (NAVCC), a state-of-the-art facility where the nation’s most prized recordings are kept, distributed, and promoted.

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Visual Cues and Clues: Born-Digital Photographs and their Metadata

Unwritten Record

A clear positive for digital copies is that physical space is no longer the largest obstacle for housing records, however, one of the lesser-thought of positives is embedded metadata. Similar to a hand-written caption on the back of a photographic print, embedded metadata can provide identifying information found within the digital file.

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Ten Years After: RIM Standards Evolve Slowly

Positively RIM

In 2001, ISO published a records management standard, 15489, that remains an important reference and guide for measuring RIM success today. This is analogous to metadata. It was largely paper-based, and its roots in library science were apparent. However, the ISO standard lacks GARP’s first two principles.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

The Sleuth Kit enables administrators to analyze file system data via a library of command-line tools for investing disk images. ProDiscover launched in 2001 to help public and private organizations solve digital crimes. UFED’s recovery methods include exclusive bootloaders, automatic EDL capability, and smart ADB. ProDiscover.