Faced with potential obsolescence and fragility, many institutions choose to migrate the contents of optical disks to more stable storage. Writable CDs and DVDs, like all optical media, are a risky format for preservation. The program has the equipment, software, and processes for working with all of the more common storage media in NYPL’s collections.Ī recent acquisition by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts brought thousands of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, containing mostly (99%) photos in JPG or raw files, to the Digital Archives lab. This means the Digital Archives program works with storage media dating from the early years of personal computing-like floppy disks in all formats and sizes-to modern-day storage solutions. It’s responsible for accessioning and transferring digital materials to storage for further archival processing and maintaining the materials for long-term storage and access. The Digital Archives program at the New York Public Library-a part of the Digital Preservation unit of the Digital Research Division-works with the born-digital portions of archival acquisitions by the 11 curatorial units of the NYPL Research Libraries. By Michelle Rothrock, Alison Rhonemus, Nick Krabbenhoeft Background
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