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What is a good tool for normalizing image file formats?
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Jan 29
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normalization
images
digital-preservation
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What is a good tool to create a graphical map of a web site (sitemap)?
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Oct 15, 2021
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web-archiving
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How to access a subset of Web Archive pages from a vintage web browser on vintage hardware?
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Sep 29, 2020
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Tools to accession via file transfer
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Jan 21, 2020
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accessions
donor
transfer
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Best practices for digitising tapes captured at a low resolution
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Oct 29, 2019
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bernieh
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digitisation
video
compression
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Do you have any LTFS Tape Library Recommendations?
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Dec 11, 2018
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hardware
storage
tape
technology
software
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Best way to crawl website from localhost with wget, preserving all files in source directory
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Jul 3, 2018
by
johanvanderknijff
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warc
web-archiving
wget
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Best way to read SCSI tape drive on a modern PC?
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Jun 6, 2018
by
johanvanderknijff
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digital-forensics
hardware
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Merging & Deduping WARC files
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May 1, 2018
by
richard
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190
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warc
deduplication
storage
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Does anyone have a procedure in place for redacting selected content (e.g. PII) from files that they can share?
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Feb 7, 2018
by
kussmann
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160
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redaction
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Is there any best practice/guidance on where to store, in METS, metadata about digitisation/digital creation processes?
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Feb 7, 2018
by
petemay
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170
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mets
provenance
digitisation
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What are the risks involved in a DIY solution like RODA?
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Feb 7, 2018
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inlutero
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Does splitting large master files (temporarily) go against best practices?
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Feb 7, 2018
by
jwil127
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130
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storage
policies
best
practices
external-hard-drives
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Digital Preservation - Server Side
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Feb 7, 2018
by
richard
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190
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server
linux
bagit
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External Write Blocker that works with an External Optical Drive?
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Feb 7, 2018
by
Gill Amos
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130
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writeblocker
external
dc-drive
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Is checking fixity at the folder level sufficient for knowing if any files within that folder that been altered?
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Feb 7, 2018
by
cathymiller85
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130
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fixity
checksums
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What are current best practices for acquiring & preserving Google Docs?
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Feb 5, 2018
by
ChristiePeterson
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580
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google
acquisition
migration
digital-preservation
apps
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How/where to store metadata about optical media sector layout in METS/PREMIS
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Feb 5, 2018
by
johanvanderknijff
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2,070
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disk-image
cd-rom
metadata
mets
premis
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IP limiting/restrictions for providing in-house access to copyrighted/restricted material?
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Sep 11, 2017
by
sarah.barsness
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1,250
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access
copyright
finding
aids
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Ingesting large & hybrid digital collections
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May 18, 2017
by
erwinverb
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150
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web-archiving
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