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Team Digital Preservation and the Planets Testbed

16 August 2010

Last week, Team Digital Preservation released the 5th animation in their amusing take on the digital preservation problem.
In this episode, the topic is…virus protection and analysis!

Blizzard and his band of evil cronies, Team Chaos, have developed a devastating new weapon. But Never Fear trusty Viewers, tune in now to find out what those wonderful whizz-kids [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Arctic Mountain Adventure

9 July 2010

Team Digital Preservation released the 4th animation in their hilarious series on digital preservation this week.
In this episode, the topic is preservation planning, one of my areas.

Digiman is baby sitting his niece and nephew for the weekend, but things go horribly wrong when he sends them out on an arctic mountain adventure. Never fear trusty [...]

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The Multiple Aspects of Data Science

21 June 2010
Thumbnail image for The Multiple Aspects of Data Science

Earlier this month, Nathan Yau at FlowingData posted Mike Loukides‘ analysis of data science from O’Reilly Radar. I finally found some time to read it.
I really enjoyed the post. The author entitled it, “What is data science?“, and covered the various aspects of the newbie field, primarily from a commercial point of view. He examined: [...]

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The Digital Dilemma

25 January 2010
The Digital Dilemma | Science and Technology Council | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

In the fall of 2007, the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) released a report entitled, “The Digital Dilemma“. In a nutshell, the Council tackled the topic of archiving digital movies. They examined how this could be done, what the costs would be, and how these methods [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Deadly Cryptic Conundrum

20 January 2010
Team Digital Preservation and the Deadly Cryptic Conundrum

“Team Chaos have struck again! But do not fear, Team Digital Preservation are on hand, in what could be their funniest adventure yet.”
This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.
This is the latest release (as of this writing) of a series of animations [...]

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“A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians”

14 January 2010
Server cabinets at a data center

A few months ago, Robert Lee Holtz wrote an article in the Science Journal section of the Wall Street Journal where he discussed how the data deluge is swamping scientists and researchers.
The author addressed the particular issue of how curators store data for current and future access so that other scientists may access the data [...]

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Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

7 January 2010
Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

I just finished reading the Executive Summary of a report out by the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age. The report is entitled, “Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age“. The full report is available online for [...]

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Data Archives That Can Last Forever?

5 January 2010
Carbon Nanotube Interior

Scientists have developed technology using carbon nanotubes that may permanently preserve individual bits of data. This means that it may now be possible to create digital data archives that will last not just for 100 years, but possibly, forever. The technology promises to solve the problem of the physical media degradation that is common to [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Aeroplane Disaster

18 December 2009
Team Digital Preservation saves the world from mid-air disaster caused by the work of Team Chaos

“Team Digital Preservation saves the world from mid-air disaster caused by the work of Team Chaos.”
This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.
This is the second animation of Digital Preservation Europe’s series on digital preservation.

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“Keeping Up with Data Rot”

8 December 2009
Bye, Tech: Dealing with Data Rot

CBS News ran this nice overview of the digital preservation/data (bit) rot problem. I have found this to be a great way to explain the problem in a way that doesn’t put the average listener to sleep.

Go ahead, send the article and video out to your friends and family without fear. You know you want [...]

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