Digital-Archaeology
Domesday Redux: The rescue of the BBC Domesday Project videodiscs
For example, the BBC Domesday Project in 1986 compiled cultural information to be preserved for posterity on laserdisc technology, but this record was nearly unrecoverable a mere 16 years later due to obsolescence of software and hardware, not ...
added Oct 30, 2026
Read article →The Code4Lib Journal – Digital Archaeology and/or Forensics: Working with Floppy Disks from the 1980s
Tools that support AFF and EWF (Guymager, fiwalk and The Sleuth Kit for example), while undoubtedly valuable in their problem domain, were not designed to recover and preserve content from computer media from the 1980s. Most of the tools that can recover content from 1980s floppy disks either output…
added Oct 27, 2026
Read article →Rhizome > blog > I (No Longer) Have a Web Site: Access, Authenticity, and the Restoration of GeoCities
For the past year, artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied (Rhizome's incoming Digital Conservator) have been working through these problems for their project One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age, which re-performs the Archive Team's GeoCities data for preservationist purposes. According to Espenschied,…
added Oct 25, 2026
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