Sunday, January 6, 2013

Welcome to the digital preservation world

5 inch floppy disk
Welcome to the blog on concepts and fundamentals in digital preservation. In this blog you will find all the information elements you need to know about digital preservation and why digital preservation is a matter that it affects you. When I mention you I want to say, a person, a company, an institution and to anybody who needs to deal with digital preservation matters.

In this blog you will find definitions, tips, concepts review, articles review, software review and more information. You'll also find tutorials explanations, references to the best sites for information on digital preservation.

I am a specialist in digital preservation. I have strong computer skills and librarian skills. However, in this blog I pretend to give clear and simple concepts related to digital preservation and digital curation.

It is an open blog where you can write post that I will answer as soon as possible and I hope you enjoy it.

It is a blog that will be useful to librarian students, teachers, specialists and non-specialists people. Everyone has a need for information on digital preservation. This blog will pretend to give an answer in this field and make know the latest trends.

You can solve technical doubts on this field, or technical questions that I can send to you through the post or by e-mail.

This blog will discuss the concepts of digital preservation, digital preservation, digital formats, metadata, digital legacy, obsolescence, analog cameras, digital cameras, computers, laptops, USB sticks, social networks, mobile phones and all electronic gadgets affecting in our lives and digital preservation.

So let’s start.
Imagine you have an ancient electronic document (or digital object) into a 5 inch floppy from any of your relatives, father, grandfather, mother, grandmother or any other one. This document for any reason, you needed to open it and at least to visualize its information. What would you do? Can you open this ancient document at home? Can you manipulate it? Can you print it? Can you write on it?

All these questions will try to be solved in this blog.

Enjoy it!

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