Digital archiving
Digital archiving – (7)
3.5 INCH DATA DISCS – our last opportunity to read them – a few MIDI files copied but most of the rest are truly obsolete – the related equipment,…
Digital archiving – (6)
B&W NEGATIVES – Certainly the oldest media (after paper!) we have created ourselves – is the humble black and white photographic negative (as early as glass plate, or box-brownie…
Digital archiving – (5)
CELLULOID 8mm FILM Once upon a time (around 1932) there was 8 millimeter film which was in fact 16mm film exposed in two operations then cut down the middle…
EPFL (2) – DNA
Montreux jazz stored as DNA – at this link Scientists from Microsoft and the University of Washington have reached an early but important milestone in synthetic DNA storage by…
EPFL (1) – Heritage/Art labs
HERITAGE & ART LABS Original intention of this visit to EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) was to experience the Montreux Jazz Lab listening space (see Montreux Jazz Digital…
Transport perspectives (5)
Analog video example (2) from our digital archive project — the Vallée de Joux steam train — filmed in 1992 on Sony Hi8 analog tape – one of the…
Digital archiving (1 ex)
analog video – examples (1) We go back to the age of Betacam video capture (1980’s and 1990’s) – 0.75 inch U-matic tape format – via VHS copy and…
Digital archiving – (4)
DIAPOSITIVES (slides) (analog-digital) [Apollo-P82 Index] Index — P82: archive post — P82 build — revival(a) — revival(b) — revival(c) — remote (d) Most readers who grew up with 35mm…
Digital archiving – (3)
DVD LIBRARY — (digital-digital) Data in this category begins with the DVD itself (commercial recordings) – or transfer to DVD support directly from analog or digital TV transmissions -…
Digital archiving – (1)
ANALOG VIDEO (analog-digital) Legacy media supports and formats: Sony 8 and Hi-8 analog tape cassettes (images on this post). Panasonic digital tape cassettes. Super 8 celluloid film. VHS analog…
Digital archiving – (2)
AUDIO QUARTER INCH TAPE (analog-digital) Legacy tape drives are shown here, and are all in working order, so first steps of preservation as digital versions can be undertaken. Then…
Montreux Digital Project
Latest update: 2019 – link to full page full project pageFor marcomathieumedia there are two major attractions of the Montreux Jazz Festival:1: awesome music and2: the amazing digital archive…
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