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What are the specs of workstations people are using for digital preservation activities?
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Jul 23, 2014
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government
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Is Multipage Tiff an acceptable Preservation format?
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What are the recommendations for brand or type of hardware write blocker?
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Who uses the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment?
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How should you scope a crawl for web archiving online discussion forums
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web-archiving
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What makes for well defined selection criteria for an Archive-It Web Archive collection?
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selection
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When should one keep database content in an original format and when to export or flaten it?
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Mar 27, 2014
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file-formats
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What are best practices/recommendations for how often to check fixity of content?
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Jul 24, 2014
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elisedunham
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fixity
checksums
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What are the most effective ways to minimize latency issues in geographically distributed collections?
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Aug 21, 2014
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mgallinger
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technology
latency
policies
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What should I consider when evaluating a request to delete materials from a digital preservation environment?
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Jul 23, 2014
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chelcie
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What is a file format?
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Can cover sheets be part of an AIP?
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Sep 10, 2014
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oais
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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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What should be the qualifications for digital archivist jobs?
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Dec 2, 2013
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tjowens
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workforce
archives
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What format questions to ask and considerations to make in acquisition of born digital architectural drawings?
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Jul 7, 2014
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tjowens
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acquisition
file-formats
design
collection-development
special-collections
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What do you (or should you do) with ‘thumbs.db’ and other hidden system files?
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Jun 16, 2014
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crouchmi
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hidden
system
files
policy
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A tool to detect encrypted Office documents?
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May 29, 2014
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richardlehane
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Do filesystem-based checksums add value in a digital preservation context?
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Jul 15, 2014
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michael
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400
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storage
media
bit-rot
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Unusual sources of file format signatures
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Jun 6, 2014
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richardlehane
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file-formats
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What are the benefits and risks of using the PDF-A file format?
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Mar 7, 2014
by
JMandelbaum
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290
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file-formats
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