Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that the General Services Administration converted 14,000 magnetic to digital records, and claimed the process saved a million dollars a year.</p><p>@DOGE on X: The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records.<br>The problem is, magnetic tapes are regarded by storage and archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable, and safe medium for long-term data storage. Just because it’s a 70 year old medium doesn’t mean those records needed a massive overhaul to digital, that it will save any money in the long term, or that the new storage method is better.</p><p>Casual storage enjoyers might hear tape and think fragile spools of plastic that can rot or wear out. But digital storage is not necessarily a better option if you’re trying to keep information for years; digital storage rot, or “bit rot,” can affect a hard drive over years of storage, making the data corrupt or inaccessible. This happens when the electrical charge inside a solid-state storage device—like the kind of digital drive we can assume DOGE is talking about—leaks and causes the drive to lose performance."</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/doge-gsa-magnetic-tape-archives-digital-storage/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/doge-gsa-magnetic-</span><span class="invisible">tape-archives-digital-storage/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DigitalStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalStorage</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MagneticTape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MagneticTape</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Archiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archiving</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataStorage</span></a></p>
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Jake in the desert<p>Great piece about the disappearing internet, link rot, digital storage, all of it. A must-read: <a href="https://archive.is/vND5N" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/vND5N</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>As for archiving -- a lot is saved on <a href="https://archive.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, but even MORE is not, and is disappearing- as the article gets into. That's why I like to use things like <a href="https://archive.is" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> to save websites and articles. </p><p>Gotta do what we can to preserve. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ArchiveDotOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArchiveDotOrg</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalStorage</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PhysicalMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhysicalMedia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BackUpYourStuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BackUpYourStuff</span></a></p>
Brad Rosenheim<p>Does anyone have any recommendations for abandoning the cloud for photos and videos? I'd love to have a hard drive at home that is accessible to me and only me online (I know, I know) that I can occasionally recall old photos and videos from and that i can push old photos and videos to. After 20 years, google has started bugging me for money to store >15GB but I don't think I need much more than that and their warnings are exhausting.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PrivateNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateNetwork</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DigitalStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalStorage</span></a></p>
George Macgregor<p>DSHR's Blog: Petabit Optical Media?</p><p>3D nanoscale optical disk memory with petabit capacity... Or is it?!</p><p><a href="https://blog.dshr.org/2024/03/petabit-optical-media.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.dshr.org/2024/03/petabit-</span><span class="invisible">optical-media.html</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/digitalstorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalstorage</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/opticalmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opticalmedia</span></a></p>
UMaine Digital Curation<p>Registration is open for our online preservation course starting 17 January, which covers <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalStorage</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migration</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/emulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emulation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalForensics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalForensics</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WebArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebArchiving</span></a> and more! </p><p><a href="https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archives</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Collections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collections</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalCuration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalCuration</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/GLAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GLAM</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metadata</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Museums</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blockchain</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/MediaArcheology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaArcheology</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/OnlineCourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineCourse</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/OnlineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/RemoteLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RemoteLearning</span></a></p>
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