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Bits and Pieces

Updates on our work in digital preservation and research data.
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Results for: digital preservation
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
Shameless Self-Promotion is the Best Kind of Self-Promotion
Over the past year our work has been featured in a video and podcast.
Copies of the Personal Digital Archiving zine, featuring a cover drawing of a desktop computer with a rasterized spiral on the screen
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  • Scott David Witmer
Personal Digital Archiving Guide, 2019 Edition
The Personal Digital Archiving zine is now available in the Digital Preservation Lab and in Shapiro Library Design Lab's Design-o-Matic 4000 vending machine!
Lance Stuchell, Head of the Digital Preservation Unit, points at a screen display of 3.5-inch floppy disks during a World Digital Preservation Day event.
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  • Scott David Witmer
World Digital Preservation Day 2019
The U-M Digital Preservation Unit celebrated World Digital Preservation Day on November 7 with zines, cookies, and a 3.5-inch floppy disk data rescue demonstration.
Doctor shining a light into the camera
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
Deep Blue PDF Health Check
Announcement of our PDF research project.
Boxes of sad Zip disk readers
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  • Christina Min
Click-Click-Dead: Pt. 2
More on our adventure with recovering Zip disks!
Box of Zip disks
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  • Christina Min
Click-Click-Dead: Pt. 1
The click of death and more fun with Zip disks!
The UM Library Digital Preservation Unit's Pop-Up Digital Archiving Clinic on World Digital Preservation Day 2018
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  • Scott David Witmer
Looking Back on World Digital Preservation Day
A brief photo tour of the Digital Preservation Unit's Pop-Up Digital Archiving event for World Digital Preservation Day 2018.
Store display of commercially-available external hard drives
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  • Scott David Witmer
Personal Digital Archiving Guide Part 3: Storage
Part 3 of the Personal Digital Archiving series looks at storage options for backing up your digital data.
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  • Scott David Witmer
Personal Digital Archiving Revisited
A quick review of Personal Digital Archiving tips.
A open sign in a shop window
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
A New Website for the Digital Preservation Lab
Our Digital Preservation Lab now has a cool website with shared versions of our workflows to transfer material off current and obsolete media; information on new and vintage equipment used in the lab; and a selection of reports and research on born-digital preservation.