Fascinating. I have lots of things that I like or consider to be relevant to me on an ancient desktop, I do mean ancient. It didn’t occur to me that the info could deteriorate or be inaccessible at some point until a tech genius friend transposed all the information complete on to my all singing/ dancing 365. So I can open the massive file and access everything from thirty years ago. No I don’t know how it works but it does.
Thank you for answering my, and others’, questions!! I found it especially illuminating to learn the differences between digitizing and preserving - I suppose I conflated the two in my head!
this was such a interesting read! can i ask how you got into doing this work? was it something you always wanted to do or was it like a happy accident you fell into?
Thank you for this information and I’m excited to keep reading future posts in the series! I have recently been researching graduate programs for Library Science, Archives, and Media preservation - I was wondering if you have any advice for someone who is interested in getting into this field of work?
Of course! I’ll write my next post about this - feel free to shoot me a DM if you have any specific questions though. And best of luck with your applications
I really enjoyed this piece! Thank you for sharing about the important work you do in archives. It’s inspiring me to write about my own work in the LGBTQ History Archive world. Keep up the great work!
This is so great. Sorry it took me a while to get around to it (the last month has been nuts).
Many years ago (around 20) I and some other Phantom fans started trying to archive/preserve out-of-print media. Basically we scanned, ripped, recorded, copied and saved all we could, made sure everyone had at least two backups each and then uploaded copies to Google Drive as well. We shared these with fans from around the world who, in many cases, had never and would have never been able to see this stuff. It's great.
But...it's a lot of data to store for a few blokes with no money. While I'm sure my example is small compared to what you work with, it gave me an appreciation of how difficult preservation is. How do we ensure what's already preserved/ archived remains so?
I really look forward to more entries in this series. One question I have - and sorry as it's probably a big one - is how one can get involved. I'd love to do what you do, but I've had next to no training/ formal experience at all.
Fascinating. I have lots of things that I like or consider to be relevant to me on an ancient desktop, I do mean ancient. It didn’t occur to me that the info could deteriorate or be inaccessible at some point until a tech genius friend transposed all the information complete on to my all singing/ dancing 365. So I can open the massive file and access everything from thirty years ago. No I don’t know how it works but it does.
Haha that’s great! Always nice to have a tech savvy friend to help out, although often we don’t know how everything works either 😳
Thank you for answering my, and others’, questions!! I found it especially illuminating to learn the differences between digitizing and preserving - I suppose I conflated the two in my head!
Of course! I think lots of people do, myself included before I actually started doing this work
this was such a interesting read! can i ask how you got into doing this work? was it something you always wanted to do or was it like a happy accident you fell into?
I can write my next post about this! My route in was a little weird haha
Thank you for this information and I’m excited to keep reading future posts in the series! I have recently been researching graduate programs for Library Science, Archives, and Media preservation - I was wondering if you have any advice for someone who is interested in getting into this field of work?
Of course! I’ll write my next post about this - feel free to shoot me a DM if you have any specific questions though. And best of luck with your applications
I really enjoyed this piece! Thank you for sharing about the important work you do in archives. It’s inspiring me to write about my own work in the LGBTQ History Archive world. Keep up the great work!
This is so great. Sorry it took me a while to get around to it (the last month has been nuts).
Many years ago (around 20) I and some other Phantom fans started trying to archive/preserve out-of-print media. Basically we scanned, ripped, recorded, copied and saved all we could, made sure everyone had at least two backups each and then uploaded copies to Google Drive as well. We shared these with fans from around the world who, in many cases, had never and would have never been able to see this stuff. It's great.
But...it's a lot of data to store for a few blokes with no money. While I'm sure my example is small compared to what you work with, it gave me an appreciation of how difficult preservation is. How do we ensure what's already preserved/ archived remains so?
I really look forward to more entries in this series. One question I have - and sorry as it's probably a big one - is how one can get involved. I'd love to do what you do, but I've had next to no training/ formal experience at all.