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How can we ensure obsolete software can be legally used for digital preservation and access?
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What are the reasons for saving disk images?
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Mar 7, 2014
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What are the recommendations for brand or type of hardware write blocker?
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Mar 7, 2014
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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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To what extent do cryptographic hash (MD5, SHA1, etc.) collisions rates matter for fixity checking?
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Mar 3, 2014
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What should be the qualifications for digital archivist jobs?
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Dec 2, 2013
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workforce
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Is digitisation on topic?
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Comparative lifetimes of digital media
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