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Tools to accession via file transfer
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Jan 21, 2020
by
francesm224
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170
points)
accessions
donor
transfer
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votes
1
answer
1
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Best practices for digitising tapes captured at a low resolution
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Oct 29, 2019
by
bernieh
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590
points)
digitisation
video
compression
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1
answer
277
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Do you have any LTFS Tape Library Recommendations?
asked
Dec 11, 2018
by
sarah.barsness
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1,230
points)
hardware
storage
tape
technology
software
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vote
1
answer
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Best way to crawl website from localhost with wget, preserving all files in source directory
asked
Jul 3, 2018
by
johanvanderknijff
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2,020
points)
warc
web-archiving
wget
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vote
1
answer
775
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Merging & Deduping WARC files
asked
May 1, 2018
by
richard
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190
points)
warc
deduplication
storage
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1
answer
187
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Does anyone have a procedure in place for redacting selected content (e.g. PII) from files that they can share?
asked
Feb 7, 2018
by
kussmann
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160
points)
redaction
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1
answer
637
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Is there any best practice/guidance on where to store, in METS, metadata about digitisation/digital creation processes?
asked
Feb 7, 2018
by
petemay
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170
points)
mets
provenance
digitisation
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vote
1
answer
123
views
Does splitting large master files (temporarily) go against best practices?
asked
Feb 7, 2018
by
jwil127
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130
points)
storage
policies
best
practices
external-hard-drives
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vote
1
answer
431
views
External Write Blocker that works with an External Optical Drive?
asked
Feb 7, 2018
by
Gill Amos
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130
points)
writeblocker
external
dc-drive
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vote
1
answer
267
views
Is checking fixity at the folder level sufficient for knowing if any files within that folder that been altered?
asked
Feb 7, 2018
by
cathymiller85
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130
points)
fixity
checksums
+2
votes
1
answer
602
views
What are current best practices for acquiring & preserving Google Docs?
asked
Feb 5, 2018
by
ChristiePeterson
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580
points)
google
acquisition
migration
digital-preservation
apps
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votes
1
answer
238
views
IP limiting/restrictions for providing in-house access to copyrighted/restricted material?
asked
Sep 11, 2017
by
sarah.barsness
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1,230
points)
access
copyright
finding
aids
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votes
1
answer
435
views
Ingesting large & hybrid digital collections
asked
May 18, 2017
by
erwinverb
(
150
points)
web-archiving
ingest
+2
votes
1
answer
305
views
Preserving VCD's, what is the best format
asked
Dec 21, 2016
by
thorsted
(
590
points)
videocd
cd-da
optical
dat
vob
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votes
1
answer
598
views
Are there accepted alternatives to WAVE for storing audio files larger than 4GB?
asked
Jun 23, 2016
by
nkrabben
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1,990
points)
audio
file-formats
0
votes
1
answer
427
views
Best SIP / AIP creation practices for optical carriers that span multiple volumes
asked
Jun 22, 2016
by
johanvanderknijff
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2,020
points)
cd-rom
sip
aip
+1
vote
1
answer
1,034
views
Parity data for ISO images: anyone doing this? Best practices?
asked
May 25, 2016
by
johanvanderknijff
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2,020
points)
parity
cd-rom
disk-image
fixity
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votes
1
answer
945
views
DIY digitisation, good or bad?
asked
Feb 18, 2016
by
bernieh
(
590
points)
digitisation
preservation
standards
+2
votes
1
answer
802
views
How should an organisation QA the results of its outsourced web archiving activities?
asked
Nov 25, 2015
by
prwheatley
(
310
points)
0
votes
1
answer
334
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Managing Timestamps
asked
Oct 29, 2015
by
Elizabeth
(
120
points)
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