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Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

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206 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 16:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | source
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nla ◴[02 Apr 25 18:01 UTC] No.43559438[source]▶
Best thing I ever heard from the head of archives at the BBC:

Once you format shift, you will always be format shifting.

Keep your originals whenever you can.

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1. rippit ◴[03 Apr 25 12:52 UTC] No.43568885[source]▶
As someone who spent the last 2 days figuring out how best to digitise my father's old Hi8, Digital8 and MiniDV tapes, I take umbridge with this!

Keep originals if you can, but make copies ASAP, as close to lossless as possible. Don't depend on the right hardware being around in the future.