Hi,

 

I would say that first you have to check the amount of data – images you already have (Gb) and the amount you are getting every month or year. By knowing these you could plan the type of media, migration process and time and cost. Because if there is a lot of new images coming in every month, soon it will take a lot of time for migrating from one media to another, for example from one optical disk, DVD or something else to another.

 

I would also suggest using two types of media. Hard drive as one, being use in one computer and adding images on it as one appears and other media as optical disk or DVD as second media that has to be migrated every 5-10 years.

 

The concern of course is that images stored on hard drive can be altered without trace and this could not be called “secure and trusted” archiving.

 

Best regards

Mitja

 

 

Hello Archivists,

 

I have a meeting coming up this Thursday with the Communications director of the school, the IS head (computer technologies person) and me (the school archivist).  We plan to discuss “what to do with the digital photograph cassettes that are piling up in the communications office” - the ultimate goal is to have all of these digital images come over to the archives once the communications department is through with them. 

 

What would be the best way to permanently store these images?  I am hesitant to say that I should take the discs and store them in disc form since in years to come I may not be able to retrieve the images from them, but I am also not keen on the idea of printing each image out on paper. 

I am wondering if there is anyone out there that is seasoned in this area?  I am used to dealing with traditional photographs and this is new terrain for me.  Can anyone suggest any ideas that I can bring to this up-and-coming meeting???

 

Thanks in advance.

Nancy

 

 

 

Nancy Iannucci

Emma Willard School

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