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Favorite online resources to learn more about DP tools?
asked
Jul 7, 2015
by
POWRR
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200
points)
powrr
webinars
getting-started
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votes
1
answer
548
views
What are best hardware/software for automated back-up to external hard drive?
asked
Jun 9, 2015
by
elisedunham
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290
points)
storage
external-hard-drives
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vote
1
answer
954
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Recommendations - Drives for Offline Storage
asked
Jun 4, 2015
by
sarah.barsness
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1,230
points)
storage
external-hard-drives
hard-drives
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vote
1
answer
5,757
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How to distinguish 68k and PPC executables on classic Macintoshes?
asked
Mar 26, 2015
by
despens
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930
points)
executable
macintosh
file-formats
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1
answer
638
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Tool(s) for extracting administrative metadata from WARC?
asked
Jan 29, 2015
by
blumenthal
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230
points)
web-archiving
warc
preservation-metadata
metadata
premis
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1
answer
225
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Optimal file sizes for access PDFs
asked
Jan 24, 2015
by
bernieh
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590
points)
access
copies-pdfs-file
size-quality
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votes
1
answer
240
views
Splitting PDFs while preserving quality
asked
Jan 21, 2015
by
bernieh
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590
points)
+2
votes
1
answer
1,678
views
What preservation format for video to use when digitizing VHS tapes?
asked
Jan 5, 2015
by
Branko
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150
points)
video
digitization
format
preservation
+1
vote
1
answer
3,949
views
Who uses the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment?
asked
Dec 15, 2014
by
fryerc
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230
points)
risk
planning
spot
policies
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votes
1
answer
2,037
views
Does anyone have experience capturing and archiving WeChat data?
asked
Dec 9, 2014
by
thomasgpadilla
(
120
points)
digital-preservation
data-curation
web-archiving
digital-forensics
0
votes
1
answer
874
views
Does anybody have experience with a CRU USB Media Writeblocker?
asked
Dec 2, 2014
by
sarah.barsness
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1,230
points)
hardware
technology
+1
vote
1
answer
606
views
Should data repositories remove illegal characters from filenames?
asked
Nov 13, 2014
by
CDearborn
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130
points)
filenames
acquisition
data-curation
policies
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votes
1
answer
6,701
views
How to detect Hybrid ISOs?
asked
Nov 4, 2014
by
despens
(
930
points)
iso
hybrid
filesystem
joliet
disk-image
+1
vote
1
answer
865
views
Is there a standard way of citing OAIS?
asked
Oct 31, 2014
by
elisedunham
(
290
points)
oais
+1
vote
1
answer
1,627
views
What are some techniques for safely preserving virus-infected files?
asked
Oct 28, 2014
by
andrewjbtw
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310
points)
viruses
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votes
1
answer
229
views
Are there frameworks or standards for migration testing available?
asked
Sep 24, 2014
by
mgallinger
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880
points)
standards
storage-migration
testing
frameworks
0
votes
1
answer
2,725
views
Can cover sheets be part of an AIP?
asked
Sep 10, 2014
by
bernieh
(
590
points)
oais
+4
votes
1
answer
15,294
views
Is there a web archiving tool that produces WARC + directory tree?
asked
Sep 9, 2014
by
benfinoradin
(
460
points)
web-archiving
wget
heretrix
warc
httrack
0
votes
1
answer
8,851
views
Must SIPs, DIPs and AIPs have separate copies of an object file?
asked
Sep 3, 2014
by
bernieh
(
590
points)
+2
votes
1
answer
370
views
Could MarkDown support be added to this site?
asked
Aug 27, 2014
by
johanvanderknijff
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2,020
points)
meta
markdown
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