Digital Long Term Preservation (DLTP)
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Where to begin?
Imagine you find a digital copy of a media file that you want to use…
Step by step
You want to use/open it:
- What is it stored on?
- What do you do?
- What do you expect?
- What do you think is necessary for that to be possible?
Components to deal with?
- Which carrier?
- Which format?
- Which properties?
- Which player/tools?
- Which storage?
- Which catalog/database?
- For whom?
Layers / Components
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Onions.
Layers / Components
- Physical carrier (+drive?)
- Hardware interface (controller, cables, schematics, …)
- Software interface (driver, protocols, …)
- Filesystem
- The File
- Container format
- Content format(s) (codecs, MD formats, etc)
- The actual content.
The other direction
You were looking for something specific in a collection…
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Okay, Digital:
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Layers / Components
- A Collection
- A tool to search & find
- Retrieve data from storage
- Access a copy
- The File
The Challenge Begins
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