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.
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
Date:
23 Sep 2013 to 16 Oct 2013
SOIMA 2013: Safeguarding sound and image collections
Dates: 23 September- 16 October 2013
Place: Nairobi, Kenya, with study visits to partner institutions.
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