[OpenGLAM] Data loss in digitization projects?

Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 18 13:45:22 UTC 2014


Thanks, Lieke - what a wonderful project!

Daniel
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Lieke Ploeger <lieke.ploeger at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear Daniel (and others),
>
> I do not know more about this specific company, but it is definitely an
> interesting topic.
> My former colleague of the National Library of the Netherlands, Barbara
> Sierman works as Digital Preservation Manager and has set up a great
> initiative called the Atlas of Digital Damages, where stories and examples
> of what can go wrong with digital data are collected.
> It is available here: http://www.atlasofdigitaldamages.info/v1/ - under
> Stories you can find many examples of data loss.
>
> Best, Lieke
>
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>
>
> On 18 February 2014 10:40, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I think I have come across, in a GLAM-Wiki context, a story about a
>> company (probably in Italy, perhaps in Florence) that had done one (or
>> some) digitization projects and then went bankrupt, leaving no data
>> whatsoever, despite considerable public investment in the project.
>>
>> Do any of you remember details and have a link on the matter? Do you
>> know of similar cases of data loss in digitization projects?
>>
>> Thanks and cheers,
>>
>> Daniel
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