Digital Preservation Q&A

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What are current best practices for acquiring & preserving Google Docs?

answered May 29, 2024 by despens (990 points)

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What is a good tool for normalizing image file formats?

answered Jan 31, 2024 by johanvanderknijff (2,070 points)

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What are the most effective ways to minimize latency issues in geographically distributed collections?

answered Nov 4, 2022 by despens (990 points)

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Does anyone have a procedure in place for redacting selected content (e.g. PII) from files that they can share?

answered Oct 6, 2022 by ross-spencer (190 points)

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How to access a subset of Web Archive pages from a vintage web browser on vintage hardware?

answered Feb 14, 2022 by despens (990 points)

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What is a good tool to create a graphical map of a web site (sitemap)?

answered Nov 22, 2021 by todrobbins (350 points)

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Tools to accession via file transfer

answered Jul 9, 2021 by todrobbins (350 points)

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Best practices for digitising tapes captured at a low resolution

answered Oct 30, 2019 by kieranjol (180 points)

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1 answer 305 views

Preserving VCD's, what is the best format

answered Sep 13, 2019 by johanvanderknijff (2,070 points)

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1 answer 431 views

External Write Blocker that works with an External Optical Drive?

answered Sep 12, 2019 by lglanville (160 points)

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1 answer 267 views

Is checking fixity at the folder level sufficient for knowing if any files within that folder that been altered?

answered Sep 12, 2019 by decirella (270 points)

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2 answers 567 views

Best way to read SCSI tape drive on a modern PC?

answered Sep 12, 2019 by decirella (270 points)

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Does splitting large master files (temporarily) go against best practices?

answered Sep 11, 2019 by euanc (3,930 points)

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Parity data for ISO images: anyone doing this? Best practices?

answered Sep 11, 2019 by euanc (3,930 points)

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Do you have any LTFS Tape Library Recommendations?

answered Apr 4, 2019 by Andrew_Magnext (140 points)

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Is there any best practice/guidance on where to store, in METS, metadata about digitisation/digital creation processes?

answered Sep 17, 2018 by roxponinja (140 points)

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1 answer 839 views

Best way to crawl website from localhost with wget, preserving all files in source directory

answered Jul 10, 2018 by johanvanderknijff (2,070 points)

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1 answer 775 views

Merging & Deduping WARC files

answered Jun 8, 2018 by atomotic (160 points)

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2 answers 516 views

Digital Preservation - Server Side

answered May 1, 2018 by euanc (3,930 points)

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How/where to store metadata about optical media sector layout in METS/PREMIS

answered Feb 8, 2018 by johanvanderknijff (2,070 points)

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