---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: PeterK <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:45 AM Subject: The Importance of the Original To: RAINbyte <[log in to unmask]>, Peter Kurilecz < [log in to unmask]> The Importance of the Original When it comes to digital preservation the work is never truly finished. As we have written before, our best practices with digital curation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_curation>and preservation<http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/what-does-electronic-records-archivist-do>involve keeping the original file in its original format as well as creating a file in a preservation format when possible. For instance if we have an older Microsoft Word document, we will keep it and also create a PDF <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html>version of that file as its preservation master. If a researcher is interested in the file, they will get a PDF copy since it is a standard format and easy to access. http://bit.ly/MrnyuL Source: http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/importance-original See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/MrnyuL+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
