Rescued Film Project
An American WWII soldier shoots 31 rolls of film. They sit undeveloped for more than 70 years. Then they come to the attention of The Rescued Film Project. And the painstaking recovery and…
Making it possible for people like us to learn more from people we may never meet.
Ralph Rinzler of the Smithsonian Institution provides a warm introduction to a video of the great guitar player, Doc Watson. In this intro, he captures what is at the heart of “Society’s Genome.”…
The Challenges of Analog and Digital Preservation
Yes, digital backups and archives have their own complications. But at least you’re not likely tasked with preserving the sunken remains of the Lusitania, the British ocean liner that was sunk by a…
Different Ways to Store Large Datasets
Chapter 10 of “Society’s Genome” describes the Seven Tenets of Good Archiving. Tenet One is to use well-defined, non-proprietary standards for archiving. While backups are expected to be read with the same tools…