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Preservica, IRMS and ARA digital preservation training a great success!

Preservica

Over the course of 2015/16 the Preservica team has been pairing up with the Information and Records Management Society (IRMS) and ARA (UK) to deliver a series of practical workshops and webinars on digital preservation. Next up, we’ll be attending and presenting at the annual IRMS conference in Brighton.

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#ourcovid19story

Preservica

We have been humbled by the response with over 40 institutions from government, education and major corporations coming forward so far to share how they are using or plan to use Preservica for different initiatives from capturing public record website bulletins to collecting and preserving video and oral histories from local communities.

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Cross-Post from Out of the Stacks: How to Convert Your Home Movie Tapes to Digital

The Texas Record

TIP: Different video formats have different ways to protect the tape from being recorded over. TIP: Always inspect your media. If there is mold on it, you probably need to find someone to send it to for cleaning and digitization. Research your videotape formats and do whatever you need to your tapes to protect your video.

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Tools TSLAC Uses To Access and Make Available Older Formats

The Texas Record

In our courses, we offer several strategies for providing continuous access, one of which involves holding onto older hardware and software needed to access these older formats. TSLAC teaches these principles, but we also live by them.

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How (not) to schedule electronic messages: Part II

The Schedule

You can read it here , or you can see my clever Prezi utilizing a “tip of the iceberg” visual metaphor here. Plus, of course, Wisconsin State Law prevents us from passing on redaction/review costs to the requestor, so any time spent on that because of inadequate information screening was a cost the city had to eat anyway.