Digital Preservation ⁽¹¹⁾

I don't need to be the umpteenth person to tell you, in dramatically vague terms, that cloud computing and software-as-a-service have (*Paul LaFontaine voice*) changed the very society we live in. But every now and then I am reminded that the Big Tech consolidation and…

Let's talk about Homebrew. No, not the beer-making technique that left you befuddled by the appearance of approximately two thousand quirky-named, identically-tasting IPAs at the liquor store. I mean the popular package manager for macOS. Homebrew is a beloved tool of digital preservation educators and…

A couple weeks ago, there was a Forbes article that caught my eye. (No, librarians, it wasn't that twaddle, please don't hurt me) No, it was this one, relating one writer/podcaster's decision to switch to Linux as his everyday operating system after a few too…

A couple of times at NYU, a new student would ask me what kind of laptop I would recommend for courses and professional use in video and digital preservation. Maybe their personal one had just died and they were shopping for something new. Often they'd…

One of the particular challenges of video preservation is how to handle and preserve the content on digital tape formats from the latter days of magnetic A/V media: Digital Betacam, DVCam, DVCPro, etc. Caught in the nebulous time of transition between analog and digital signals…