- Digital photography has dramatically increased our ability to document our lives through images. Photographer Rob Gibson takes a different approach to documenting the people who come to his studio by using wet plate collodion photography. [via PetaPixel]
- Not just about the outdoors, staff from the National Park Service talk about their digital collection and preservation. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Formats from the recent past, VHS and quad videotapes, document televsion from the 1950s to 1970s and the Library of Congress is in a race to preserve them before the can't be played anymore. [via The Washington Post]
- Another format from the recent past is 16mm film. When Director and Producer William Lorton and Jason Savage stumbled upon World War II Flight Surgeon Jim Savage’s (Lorton’s great-uncle and Savage’s great-grandfather) store of 16mm footage taken during the war and they decided to make the following documentary. [via PetaPixel]
- When digitizing materials, how much DPI/PPI is too much? [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- This past week the National Archives released more records related to Watergate. [via InfoDocket]
- For a blast from the past from the Museum Conservation Institution see the video below: Rescuing Records: Recognizing the Problems of Preserving Documents in Research Collections. [via Museum Conservation Institute]
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