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Posts tagged with Born-digital in Blog Bits and Pieces

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The full five-step process from Special Collections to archival upload, with the access format conversion workflow embedded at Step 2–4.
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  • Luciana Si-Wei Qu
How We Chose PDF/A-2u (And What We Found When We Actually Tested It)
In the second post in our series on normalizing Word documents, we get into the nitty-gritty of how we chose PDF/A-2u and the results of our migration and accessibility testing.
A screen shot of random files in a My Documents window, including PDF and Microsoft Word files.
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
A New Normal: Our Decision to Migrate DOC and DOCX Files
The thinking behind our decision to normalize files associated with the Microsoft Word program to the PDF/A-2u format for access and preservation purposes, and a brief overview of the migration process.
Beakers
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
A Born-Digital Laboratory is Born
We are putting together a super sweet lab to handle born-digital content!!
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
Assessing and Quantifying Risk to Digital Media Materials
A summary of a risk assessment model as applied to a born-digital archival collection at M Library.
The custom ASIC chip inside the original Apple Newton H1000
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
Digital Preservation: What It Is and Why are We Blogging About It?
This inaugural post of Bits and Pieces answers the age old questions: What is digital preservation? Why are you writing about it? Who the heck are you?