Dec 03 2012
Why are we researching a solution to the digital preservation challenge? This is a great question, mostly because we know that important objects are being stored digitally and we do not want to wait for the disaster to happen before we prepare. Has a digital disaster of data loss already taken place though? The …
Sep 21 2012
As Lynne mentioned in her previous post, the entire Digital POWRR team, from all 5 partner institutions, got together for a marathon-style meeting in August. There was angst. There was gnashing of teeth. There was A LOT accomplished! One item on our agenda was to make a laundry list of questions and …
Sep 17 2012
Welcome to the new Digital POWRR website! Please excuse us while we get up to date with our information and design at this address. If you’re looking for current information please visit our up-to-date website.
Aug 13 2012
Historians producing digital objects in the course of their work may be unaware of the need to provide means for their long-term preservation. Although many of us have assumed that digital objects are eternal, they are in fact subject to degradation and decay like any other artifact.
Should digital objects stored on a single server, …
