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Reminder!! Digital Preservation Reading Group, July 16, 2026: Migration and Emulation

  • 1.  Reminder!! Digital Preservation Reading Group, July 16, 2026: Migration and Emulation

    Posted 20 days ago
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    Join us on Thursday, July 16th, 3 pm EST | 2 pm CST | 12 pm PST for our next reading group discussion.

    For this session, we'll be diving into file format migration and emulation. All are welcome: we're hoping to see familiar friends and some fresh faces, too! 

    To attend, please join this zoom link. 

    We will discuss the following readings:

    1. Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation, Section "File Format Migration Policies," American Archivist: https://american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/aarc/82/1/article-p165.xml?isSearch=true&body=FullText

    2. "Monitoring File Format Obsolescence in repositories: An applied method," by Alloing, Sam. iPres 2023 Conference Proceedings: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/128320

    3. An Overview of Emulation as a Preservation Method, CLIR pub 194. https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/an-overview-of-emulation-as-a-preservation-method/

    4. Emulation & Virtualization as Preservation Strategies: https://digital.library.unt.edu/dam/?next=%2Fark%3A%2F67531%2Fmetadc799755%2Fm2%2F1%2Fhigh_res_d%2Frosenthal-emulation-2015.pdf

    DPIG Co-Chairs



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    Ephranette Brown
    Emory University, Robert W, Woodruff Library
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