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Tag results: Archival

Dead on Archival

Considering the challenges that face shuttered newspapers with decades or even centuries of material to preserve.

Nov 24, 2021

Make Digital Preservation Easier

If major companies think it’s too hard or costly to leave up sites filled with user-generated content, perhaps we need to change the motivations.

Apr 07, 2021

Pretty Darn Fascinating

The story of the PDF, the portable document format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information formats. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone.

Feb 27, 2018

Down With Snippet View

The limitations of Google Books can be seen in the way that it handles obscure trade publications. Everyone who made that old magazine? Probably dead.

Jun 26, 2017

Honey, I Shrunk The Page

Microfiche (or microfilm, depending on how you roll) is a library mainstay, but its history is wild, according to this note I got from a carrier pigeon.

Jun 14, 2016

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