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Kryoflux-athon – the scores are in!
Well, its been a very…dexterous day…fingers and hands flipping between 2 sets of screens, two mice and piles of discs but at the end of it we managed to image 65 discs (averaging 13 per hour). This time included labelling each disc with a unique number and logging that disc as having been imaged, with […]
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Well, its been a very…dexterous day…fingers and hands flipping between 2 sets of screens, two mice and piles of discs but at the end of it we managed to image 65 discs (averaging 13 per hour). This time included labelling each disc with a unique number and logging that disc as having been imaged, with […]
Back in July I posted the great news that we’d purchased a Kryoflux, along with 5.25″ drives, to enable us to read the growing number of disks we’re finding in our collections. Following that acquisition we, on Halloween, hosted our own first ‘Bring out your dead’ day, where staff popped into our Digital Triage Unit […]
So today I received more toys to play with… In addition to receiving funding to purchase a Kryoflux I was also able to purchase some additional kit to complement our growing forensic workstation. At present our quarantine PC is not backed up through the university’s regular back up procedures owing to the fact that 99% […]
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All you ever wanted to know about how to go about setting up a digital preservation repository, live and as it happens...well almost!
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I'm the Digital Preservation Curator at the University of Edinburgh, based in Special Collections and Archives within the Library and University Collections. My remit is to implement a Digital Preservation repository solution (Digital Strong Room) for the management and preservation of born-digital University records, digitised content and acquired digital and hybrid collections.
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