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Does anyone have experience capturing and archiving WeChat data?
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Dec 9, 2014
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Does anybody have experience with a CRU USB Media Writeblocker?
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Dec 2, 2014
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How to open WARC files
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Nov 27, 2014
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Tools for identifying obfuscated files, specifically password protected and encrypted formats?
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Nov 23, 2014
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digital-preservation
software
digital-archiving
digital-forensics
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When is "Preservation Format" a useful concept in digital preservation?
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Nov 18, 2014
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file-formats
policy
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Should data repositories remove illegal characters from filenames?
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Nov 13, 2014
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CDearborn
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filenames
acquisition
data-curation
policies
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What is a good way to record information about the funding of a preservation project?
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Nov 7, 2014
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nkrabben
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metadata
donor
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How to detect Hybrid ISOs?
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Nov 4, 2014
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despens
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iso
hybrid
filesystem
joliet
disk-image
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Is there a standard way of citing OAIS?
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Oct 31, 2014
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elisedunham
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oais
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What are some techniques for safely preserving virus-infected files?
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Oct 28, 2014
by
andrewjbtw
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310
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viruses
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Is Multipage Tiff an acceptable Preservation format?
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Oct 10, 2014
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evanwill
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multipage-tif
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Best Practices for Accessioning Email from Web Applications?
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Sep 30, 2014
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tjowens
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acquisition
email
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Are there frameworks or standards for migration testing available?
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Sep 24, 2014
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mgallinger
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850
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standards
storage-migration
testing
frameworks
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External 3.5 disk drive recommendation?
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Sep 23, 2014
by
Matt Gorzalski
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140
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268
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Any written policies on retention of digital surrogates?
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Sep 15, 2014
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lljohnston
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230
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policies
surrogates
retention
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Can cover sheets be part of an AIP?
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Sep 10, 2014
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bernieh
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oais
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Is there a web archiving tool that produces WARC + directory tree?
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Sep 9, 2014
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benfinoradin
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460
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web-archiving
wget
heretrix
warc
httrack
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What tools do you use for the ongoing monitoring of checksums?
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Sep 9, 2014
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sarah.barsness
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1,190
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fixity
checksums
tools
workflow
software
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Must SIPs, DIPs and AIPs have separate copies of an object file?
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Sep 3, 2014
by
bernieh
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550
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Could MarkDown support be added to this site?
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Aug 27, 2014
by
johanvanderknijff
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meta
markdown
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