Submitted by Richard Ranft on Wed, 13/02/2013 - 21:35
The USA's Library of Congress today unveiled "The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan," a blueprint for saving America’s recorded sound heritage for future generations. The congressionally mandated plan spells out 32 short- and long-term recommendations involving both the public and private sectors and covering infrastructure, preservation, access, education and policy strategies.
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 12:44
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Thu, 24/01/2013 - 21:29
Scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute in UK and Agilent Technologies in USA have encoded digital files on synthesized DNA, including all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in ASCII text, a PDF of a scientific paper, a medium-resolution JPEG 2000 colour photo - and a 26-second MP3 audio excerpt from Martin Luther King’s 1963 I have a dream speech.
Source: Nature, 2013. "Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA" http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11875
Submitted by Lynn Johnson on Wed, 23/01/2013 - 17:55
Please note that IASA is now accepting applications for the IASA 2013 Research Grant!
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