From Imaging to Access - Effective Preservation of Legacy Removable Media
Kam Woods, Geoffrey M. Brown · Archiving Conference · 2009
We describe how existing media collections can be virtualized through digital copies that are accessible via ordinary workstations. In the model presented, bit-identical images of the original media are served from a distributed file system to provide convenient access on local or remote workstations. Our approach incorporates mature open source libraries to provide high-quality, low-cost image extraction, file format identification, metadata creation, and web-driven access; we include specific examples of custom scripting designed to enhance usability.