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Pigeon Message
From NARA’s Historical Document of the Day, transcription of a note sent via messenger pigeon during World War I — The same kind of “media format” referenced in one of…
Preservation Is About Being Prepared For Institutional Failure
We were excited to see Part 1 of Jonathan Minard’s documentary Archive — a work about the “future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its…
Preservation Is Not A Format
An aphoristic interpretation in 10 parts 1. Authorial intent is, for all practical purposes, bunk. It presupposes, fallaciously, either the existence of the singular creator, or the total achievability of…
Process
When I was nigh about 8 or 9 years old, I decided I wanted to learn Russian. This wasn’t an idea that just floated into my head out of nowhere…
Product Process
Less Process More Product was one of the buzz phrases I heard being bandied about like at AMIA 2010 in Philadelphia. (Other popular phrases included, “xxxxx” and “xxxxxx”.) The concept…
Ratings, Rankings, & Rantings
Complaints about the movie ratings system as overseen by the MPAA have a long tradition, both from those who think the ratings board is too strict and those who think…
Ray Harryhausen Is Cinema To Me
Ray Harryhausen is cinema to me. I use the term cinema and associate it with him because my love of the moving image was not forged in theaters but on…
Saving And Archiving Are Not The Same
In my personal life I actively work against saving things. I actively work because it is difficult to not save. Because the opposite of saving is wasting or over-consumption, and those are…
Scenario Planning For A Successful DAM Journey
Getting to Success: A Scenario-driven Approach for Selecting, Implementing, and Deploying Digital Asset Management Systems Usage scenarios are simple narrative descriptions of current or future state use of a system….
Select Few
I may regret admitting this, but from the ages of about 9 to 14 I was pretty deep into collecting baseball cards. Of course maybe I should be proud to…
