preservation

Ask an expert: IASA's Editor in New York Times

IASA member Bertram Lyons, recently appointed as IASA Editor, will answer questions from New York Times readers interested in preserving their audio and visual material in analogue and digital media, as well as related documents. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/booming/advice-on-how-to-preserve-your...

Screening the Future 2013

Date: 
7 May 2013 to 8 May 2013
Location: 
London, UK

The 2013 Screening the Future conference will be held on 7 & 8 May at the Tate Modern in London, UK.
https://www.prestocentre.org/events/screeningthefuture/2013

CURATEcamp AVPres

Date: 
19 Apr 2013
Location: 
online

The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Open Source Committee is happy to announce CURATEcamp: AVPres, an online, video conference-based CURATEcamp, focused specifically on the digital preservation and access needs of audiovisual collections.  The camp will take place on April 19, 2013 from 12pm EST through the day (end time is still TBD).  The sessions will be mostly held online via Google Hangout, with physical sites helping to gather archivist colleagues together locally.

DNA: a future preservation medium for audio?

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

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