Bits and Pieces

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.

Announcement of our PDF research project.

More on our adventure with recovering Zip disks!

The click of death and more fun with Zip disks!

We are upgrading the software that runs Deep Blue Data to Hyrax2. This upgrade will results in some changes and improvements to the user interface and functionality of the Deep Blue Data repository.

A brief photo tour of the Digital Preservation Unit's Pop-Up Digital Archiving event for World Digital Preservation Day 2018.

Part 3 of the Personal Digital Archiving series looks at storage options for backing up your digital data.

A quick review of Personal Digital Archiving tips.

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.

An examination of our new dark preservation repository with some Poe thrown in for fun!