For a long time I was a big fan of Dantz Retrospect Backup. For while I was so committed that I would do an incremental backup of my laptop and most every other computer in my house every day, but I’ve been using it one way or another since 1999 or 2000 or so. All [...]

Posted March 21, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: archive, backup, backup software, dantz, dantz retrospect, digital preservation, emc, emc insignia, mac, preservation, retrospect. 2 Comments.

Back when I was looking things up for my Digital Preservation and Copyright story I found a bunch of info the University of Texas System had gathered on issues related to copyright, libraries, and education. In among the pages on copying copyrighted works, A/V reserves, and electronic reserves I found a document titled: Educational Fair [...]

Posted August 23, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: copyfight, copyright, copyright and libraries, copyright law, copyrighted works, digital preservation, edu, electronic reserves, fair use, laura quilter, libraries, University of Texas. 2 Comments.

We’re struggling with the question of what to do with our collection of vinyl recordings. They’re deteriorating, and we’re finding it increasingly difficult to keep the playback equipment in working order — the record needles seem to disappear. We’re re-purchased much of our collection on CD, but some items — this one might be one [...]

Posted August 14, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: copyfight, copyright, copyright code, copyright law, digital preservation, libraries, library, records, section 108, vinyl, vinyl recordings. 3 Comments.

I went looking for an old file the other day. As it turns out, the file was from 12 years ago, but that doesn’t seem so long ago now.
Anyway, I was amused to find how most of my images from that time were TIFFs instead of JPEGs. Thankfully, TIFFs are well supported now, but my [...]

Posted July 14, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: aldus pagemaker, digital preservation, images, jpeg, midi sequencer, old software, preservation, tiff. Be the first one.