New Zealand: “Outdated Tech Trove Keeps Digital Archives Alive”
From Radio New Zealand:
Senior advisor digital preservation’ as a job title sounds a little prosaic, but hidden away in Mick Crouch’s office at Archives New Zealand is a veritable Aladdin’s cave of technology going back several decades.
Government records have to be transferred to archives after 25 years, and while that is fine for paper documents, it can be a lot harder when the material was saved on computers from 1992.
The items on Mr Crouch’s shelves include a Macintosh Classic II, some 8″ floppy disks and a small – but remarkably heavy – disk drive to play them on, and even a classic bulky old Wang computer from about 30 years ago.
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Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, News, Preservation
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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