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2016

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The preservation of disk-based content at the British Library: Lessons from the Flashback Project

This article introduces the British Library’s Flashback project, which is exploring the practical challenges of preserving digital content currently stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks). It reports on a Flashback proof of concept that conducted experiments on a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between...

Day, Michael ; Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Davies, Kevin ; Whibley, Simon …
preservation planning, British Library, digital forensics, emulation-as-a-service, digital preservation, migration, emulation, and disk imaging