Posts tagged with digital preservation lab

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.

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.

In 2024, The U-M Library Digital Preservation Lab uncovered an almost decade-old mistake in our metadata workflow. Luckily, we were able to use this as a learning experience to think about how we can anticipate future changes to metadata formatting standards in the digital archaeology space.

Over the past year our work has been featured in a video and podcast.

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.

The click of death and more fun with Zip disks!

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.

Part two outlining our findings after discovering some moldy floppy disks.

The first post on how we are dealing with moldy 5.25 floppy disks.

Major upgrades to our lab space!