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Bits and Pieces

Updates on our work in digital preservation and research data.
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Image of the start/finish line of a track
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
A Starting Line for Digital Preservation
We have drafted a document outlining what "digital preservation" means at our institution.
The landing page of the Digital Archiving Research Guide showing a brief introduction and content menu
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  • Scott David Witmer
Digital Archiving Research Guide
Announcing the publication of the Digital Archiving Research Guide, with tips and recommendations for organizing and preserving your personal digital files.
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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!
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  • Jake Carlson
Change is coming to Deep Blue Data!
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.
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.