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What is a good tool for normalizing image file formats?
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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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Best practices for digitising tapes captured at a low resolution
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Do you have any LTFS Tape Library Recommendations?
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Best way to crawl website from localhost with wget, preserving all files in source directory
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Best way to read SCSI tape drive on a modern PC?
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Merging & Deduping WARC files
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May 1, 2018
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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
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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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What are the risks involved in a DIY solution like RODA?
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Does splitting large master files (temporarily) go against best practices?
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Feb 7, 2018
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Digital Preservation - Server Side
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Feb 7, 2018
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External Write Blocker that works with an External Optical Drive?
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Feb 7, 2018
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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
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What are current best practices for acquiring & preserving Google Docs?
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How/where to store metadata about optical media sector layout in METS/PREMIS
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IP limiting/restrictions for providing in-house access to copyrighted/restricted material?
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Ingesting large & hybrid digital collections
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