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Preserving your information from digital disasters

Preservica

Digital disasters of systems are increasingly common due to a number of factors including human error, computer job error, natural and manmade disasters, cybercrime, bit rot, and file format obsolescence. What Does a Digital Disaster Look Like? As a result, many of the photos were unsalvageable. Are you protected?

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Digital Fragility a "Ticking Time Bomb" for Enterprises says latest report

Preservica

OXFORD, UK and BOSTON – March 9, 2020 – Digital fragility has emerged as a risk to digital business that CIOs and CMOs are failing to confront concludes a recent report by Forrester , a leading global research and advisory firm. The role of specialty long-term digital preservation platforms and standards. •

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RIM-brain in Movies and TV

The Texas Record

Humans were also at risk of becoming data ghosts, which are like digital zombies as the result of data degradation (a.k.a. So to bring this around to the topic of this post, this is an interesting story based on real-life issues we face in digital preservation.

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Preserving Content from Closed Systems Part 2: Digital Preservation of Social Media

Preservica

This is contained in the JSON and can be shown in the render tool but introduces the concept of link rot – how do we know that the information linked is the same as the time of tweeting or that the URL even still exists. So Twitter preservation has introduced some interesting digital preservation concepts.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

AI can also reduce the human effort required to “crunch” vast amounts of content – generated and stored in an organization’s content repositories – in order to identify redundant, obsolete temporary (ROT) [2] content that has no business value. Blockchain, Provenance, and Authentic Information.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

The benefit of DT tools for ROT analysis, auto-classification, and auto-routing using AI and RPA is that they can automate content management at scale, which not humanly possible via manual effort. This can happen when a “bit flips” from a “0” to “1” or vice-versa, resulting in data corruption.