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PRESERVATION IN A DIGITAL WORLD

Join Darrell Garwood, Imaging Lab Manager at the Kansas State Historical Society, for an insightful presentation on preserving your digital assets in an increasingly digital world. Learn essential strategies for handling analog and digital formats, including best practices for scanning images, audio, and video. Discover the importance of selecting lossless, uncompressed formats to ensure the integrity of your data. Understand the significance of storage mediums, verification processes, and the establishment of refresh cycles. Don’t let your valuable information fade away; learn how to safeguard it effectively.

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PRESERVATION IN A DIGITAL WORLD

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  1. PRESERVATION IN A DIGITAL WORLD Presented By: Darrell Garwood Imaging Lab Manager Library and Archives Division Kansas State Historical Society Dgarwood@kshs.org 785-272-8681, ext.141

  2. If you don’t save it, it is gone. Analog Digital Scanned images Camera images Born digital images Digital recordings

  3. Analog • Equipment dependent • Deteriorating or stable • Reformat, save or recycle original

  4. Digital • Equipment dependent • Deteriorating or stable • Reformat, save or recycle original

  5. Scanned Images • Scanning parameters File format • Uncompressed and lossy tiff for images • Uncompressed AIFF or WAV encouraged for audio • Mp3 discouraged • Semi-compressed MPEG2 for video

  6. Scanning Work Flow

  7. Preservation

  8. Has my work been compressed? • Compression is a bad word for digital formats of any kind. • Select a lossless and uncompressed format to store your master files and recordings. • TIFF, AIFF or other non-proprietary file format • Find a SAN, somewhere. • Cloud????

  9. CDs and DVDs • These are storage mediums, not stone. • Verify, verify, verify. • Establish a refresh cycle of 3 to 5 years.

  10. Friends • NDNP • Regional Library System-ILDP • Kansas Humanities Council-Preservation grants

  11. QUESTIONS

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