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Digital Preservation Lab 2.0
Image CaptionUnnecessary floppy drive glamour shot Major upgrades to our lab space!
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Mold is Weird: Part 1
Image CaptionA 5.25 inch floppy disk with traces of mold (the white outlines seen on the exposed parts of the inner disk) The first post on how we are dealing with moldy 5.25 floppy disks.
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Digital Preservation Lab: Equipment
Image CaptionLittle Ms. Sunshine welcomes you to the DPL! In this post we go over our current computing workstations and peripherals.
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Mold is Weird: Part 2
Part two outlining our findings after discovering some moldy floppy disks.
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Understanding thorny file formats - the netCDF Data Curation Format Profile...
Image CaptionFirst page of netCDF DCFP In the UMich Research Data Services (RDS) group, we see and work with all sorts of data. One particularly thorny variety is netCDF. In Deep Blue Data, we have...
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Deep into that darkness peering: Our Dark Repository
Image CaptionNevermore… Will you have to worry about those moving image master files! (I'm sorry)Photo "Raven" by Kasper Flörchinger via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) An examination of our new dark...
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A New Website for the Digital Preservation Lab
Image CaptionThe new lab website is open for business!Photo "Open" by Roland Tanglao via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)Â Our Digital Preservation Lab now has a cool website with shared versions of our workflows to...
View ArticlePersonal Digital Archiving Revisited
A quick review of Personal Digital Archiving tips.
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Personal Digital Archiving Guide Part 3: Storage
Image CaptionDigital storage options on display at an office supply store.Photo by Scott Witmer. Part 3 of the Personal Digital Archiving series looks at storage options for backing up your digital data.
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Looking Back on World Digital Preservation Day
Image CaptionPop-Up Digital Archiving Clinic, photo by Susan Borda A brief photo tour of the Digital Preservation Unit's Pop-Up Digital Archiving event for World Digital Preservation Day 2018.
View ArticleChange is coming to Deep Blue Data!
We are upgrading the software that runs Deep Blue Data to Hyrax2. This upgrade will results in some changes and improvements to the user interface and functionality of the Deep Blue Data repository.
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Click-Click-Dead: Pt. 1
Image Captionlil box of horrors Photo "Zip Disks" by Adriano Lima via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The click of death and more fun with Zip disks!
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Click-Click-Dead: Pt. 2
Image CaptionPhoto "Clicks of Death for sale" by Phil Dokas via Flickr(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) More on our adventure with recovering Zip disks!
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Deep Blue PDF Health Check
Image CaptionOpen up and say PDF/AAAAAAAAAAAAAPhoto by Penn State via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Announcement of our PDF research project.
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World Digital Preservation Day 2019
Image CaptionLance Stuchell, Head of the Digital Preservation Unit, expounds on the differences between 3.5-inch floppy disks. The U-M Digital Preservation Unit celebrated World Digital Preservation...
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Personal Digital Archiving Guide, 2019 Edition
The Personal Digital Archiving zine is now available in the Digital Preservation Lab and in Shapiro Library Design Lab's Design-o-Matic 4000 vending machine!
View ArticleShameless Self-Promotion is the Best Kind of Self-Promotion
Over the past year our work has been featured in a video and podcast.
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Digital Archiving Research Guide
Announcing the publication of the Digital Archiving Research Guide, with tips and recommendations for organizing and preserving your personal digital files.
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A Starting Line for Digital Preservation
Image CaptionSTART FINISH by Steve Snodgrass via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) We have drafted a document outlining what "digital preservation" means at our institution.
View ArticleContributing a Citation to DataCite - "IsCitedBy"
In early 2021, I was trying to verify whether the DataCite Data Metrics badge, https://support.datacite.org/docs/displaying-usage-and-citations-in-your-repository a tool for displaying usage and...
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