Canned Preserves: Reaching Out from the Classroom and Beyond « The Signal: Digital Preservation Recently, while clearing out a backpack, I found a 3.5” floppy disk<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk>dating from high school. Of course, I no longer have a floppy drive, nor can I purchase a computer with one. So now the disk occupies a rueful place on my desk, holding my middling poetry and AP Physics reports, all of that data locked forever — unless I want to splurge on a floppy disk reader. The lesson I’ve learned over the past several months is that it’s easy to think that digital preservation begins and ends with saving treasured files onto a storage device; the hard truth learned from my floppy disk is that caring for your digital files is an ongoing, dynamic process. http://1.usa.gov/LIZa3Q Source: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/06/canned-preserves-reaching-out-from-the-classroom-and-beyond/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://1.usa.gov/LIZa3Q+ 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 [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va 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]
