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Tools to accession via file transfer
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donor
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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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What techniques are there for detecting similar images at large scale?
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What is a good tool to create a graphical map of a web site (sitemap)?
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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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storage
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Unusual sources of file format signatures
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What is a file format?
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May 21, 2014
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euanc
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file-formats
terminology
standards
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What are the benefits and risks of using the PDF-A file format?
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Mar 7, 2014
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JMandelbaum
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290
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file-formats
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Do you have any LTFS Tape Library Recommendations?
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Dec 11, 2018
by
sarah.barsness
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hardware
storage
tape
technology
software
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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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4
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Is there a GUI alternative to Bagger that performs a similar function?
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Feb 6, 2015
by
andrewjbtw
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tools
checksums
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When is "Preservation Format" a useful concept in digital preservation?
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Nov 18, 2014
by
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2,360
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file-formats
policy
terminology
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Is there a web archiving tool that produces WARC + directory tree?
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Sep 9, 2014
by
benfinoradin
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460
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web-archiving
wget
heretrix
warc
httrack
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6,645
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What tools do you use for the ongoing monitoring of checksums?
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Sep 9, 2014
by
sarah.barsness
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1,250
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fixity
checksums
tools
workflow
software
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450
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Should collecting institutions keep external storage media once the digital content has been extracted?
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Jul 23, 2014
by
chelcie
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270
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media
acquisition
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2
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How can we ensure obsolete software can be legally used for digital preservation and access?
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May 21, 2014
by
euanc
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3,930
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emulation
virtualization
software-licensing
legal
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4
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1,250
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What are the reasons for saving disk images?
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Mar 7, 2014
by
JMandelbaum
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290
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forensics
media
technology
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6
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7,500
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What are the most essential technical/how-to guides that anyone getting started in digital preservation should read?
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Mar 6, 2014
by
tjowens
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2,360
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getting-started
reading
how-to
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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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600
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digitisation
video
compression
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2
answers
567
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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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2,070
points)
digital-forensics
hardware
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