Start of archiving series

by Karel Thönissen

Today I made the first of a series of articles on digital preservation (archiving) available online. The issues concerning digital preservation do not deprive the average computer user from his sleep, yet. However, I am convinced that almost everybody will run into archiving problems in the coming years. Read here what is coming to you. [complete article]

Shadows [1958] has been recovered

While we are at it: according to today's newspaper, two copies with the first version of John Cassavetes' movie debut Shadows [1958] have been found. They were deemed permantently lost. I wonder if this would have happened if the movie had been placed on a hard disk 45 years ago. Let alone the problem of finding the application software, the equipment and trained personnel to run the application to show a digital copy of a movie 45 years later.