My records management textbook (2018) keeps offhandedly reference the blockchain as an emerging technology of interest for the field.
I'm deeply confused why it thinks a technology that is necessarily public, distributed, and immutable would be attractive to people whose jobs largely involve managing sensitive information and ensuring that most of it eventually gets discarded đ
[#]GradSchool #Kvetching
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But so much of that is things like system logs and records of user behavior, right? Records of how long user X watched Instagram Reel Y, that sort of thing. How much of that data will anyone want to save for the long term?
Or is all of that just dwarfed by digital photos and AV?
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Looking at this again and realizing that I didn't necessarily say what I wanted to.
It's practically a cliché in LIS discourse to say that "in the last ten years humanity recorded more information than in all prior years combined" (or whatever the actual numbers are). Now, it is a useful cliché, since it helps us justify our existence as information professionals.
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A colleague noticed how much cleaning of CDs I was doing at work, and got me an excellent holiday giftâa screen/glasses/CD cleaning cloth made to look like an 8" floppy disk! Probably one of the best gifts I've ever received #DigiPres
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It's really common for librarians and archivists to gesture at the explosion of digital data, but I feel like it's always framed as an issue of storage and management, never as an issue of appraisal. Yes, there's orders of magnitude more data, but how much of that is data of enduring value?
(Or maybe this is just a blindspot of mine in the literature?)
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Not sure who the right person to ping about this is ( @j_feral ?) but it looks like someone's been putting spam articles into COPTR for the last week
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Here's a question for #DigiPres folksâdo you prefer reporting file/storage sizes in base-2 or base-10 units? (E.g., GiB vs. GB).
My institution prefers reporting in "Gigabytes", but hasn't defined which base they mean, and I'm trying to decide which to recommend
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Me: I should do some grad school reading during my lunch break
Hmm, never mind
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Tearing Down Digital Silos
Although electronic records are unavoidable these days, they are often still treated as very separate from physical collections. How are you are moving away from this separation and toward an approach to treat all parts of collections equally?
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Doing More By Doing Less
While much of the early literature in the field of digital archives is focused on very meticulous preservation, the growing mass of digital data to be preserved has led many practitioners to streamline their workflows (see, e.g., the move away from disk imaging by default documented by DANNNG). What's something you've chosen to deprioritize or cut from your workflows? How did you make the decision? What effect has it had on your work, your staff, and your collections?
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Have you cut something out of your #digipres workflows and been happy to leave it behind?
Have you ever put in the extra effort to integrate the digital and physical parts of a #digitalArchives collection?
Want to write 600-800 words about it?
bloggERS! seeks submissions for TWO new mini-series of blog posts: "Doing More By Doing Less" and "Tearing Down Digital Silos" (see descriptions down-thread)!
Folks interested in contributing can send an email to ers.mailer.blog@gmail.com.
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I just read David Rosenthal's great 2010 paper "Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem?" (https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v5i1.148) for grad school, and I can't get out of my head the objections it raises to the feasibility of long-term storage.
That said, a lot has happened in the #digipres world over the last 14 years. Have technological changes or reconsideration by practitioners challenged any of the paper's conclusions?
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Always disappointed at the lack of uptake for the tag (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dl). I don't think it has a Markdown version, and a lot of visual editors don't support it.
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The discussion of how to pronounce French is incredible. It goes letter by letter. They get to E, go over the rules about what to do before an n, and then just kinda peter out around final E, the acute accent, and -er (also recommends prouncing "pere" as two syllables)
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I just started reading George Fox's "Battle-Door for Teachers and Professors" and I am never coming back y'all, never
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A40123.0001.001/1:3
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Spent a little time today to add some handy references and reminders to my desk! Weâve got:
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Hey #digipres folks, can anyone recommend any tools for working with Outlook Express files (.dbx)?
All I'm coming up with so far is a proprietary program called Aid4Mail
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I'm finally reading the 1996 "Preserving Digital Information" report, and am really interested by its suggestion of processing centers for migrating files across formats. I'm not aware of any major examples of thisâdoes anyone else know of them?
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Archivists, librarians, and preservationistsâwithout looking it up, do you know why analogue materials are called "analogue" (as opposed to some other label?) Trying to figure out how widely known this is in #digipres and related circles
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Hey #digipres folks, if you have a second away from ipresâdoes anyone have opinions about using CRC32 to generate checksums? I don't often see it discussed, only MD5 and the various SHAs.
My sense is that it's less cryptographically secure, but the particular use-case we're working on is just monitoring tarred bags for bitrot, and I'm told that CRC32 is easier to calculate for large files.
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