The title of this post is taken directly from the National Library of Norway's website.Seriously.http://www.nb.no/English/The-Digital-Library/What-is-being-digitized%5Bmind blown]The digital objects are enriched with metadata and sustainable identifiers which will increase the opportunities for archiving, use and reuse over the next millennium.The National Library of Norway also offers its metadata and digital content as part of other online … Continue reading National Library of Norway is digitizing its entire collection.
Tag: digital preservation
three enemies of digital image preservation (in a nutshell)
1. Corruption I'm not talking about dirty politics here, but rather compression of the file, lossy compression in specific - the type that creates smaller file sizes for jpegs and what not. Lossless Tiff formats keep all the pixels, which mean the image quality won't suffer over time. One thing I learned long ago about … Continue reading three enemies of digital image preservation (in a nutshell)
the ultimate media storage for long term preservation
Self-destructing DVD's, CD's and hard drives would be the ultimate media storage for long term preservation. Now, before you go thinking I'm crazy and heading off to some other site that talks about good quality metadata and long-term storage devices and media please hear me out. I agree that having good quality metadata (information about … Continue reading the ultimate media storage for long term preservation
John Trendler 