DSHR's Blog

I blogged last October about a paper from Harvard in Science describing using DNA as a digital storage medium . In a fascinating keynote a...

I blogged three weeks ago about the Library of Congress ingesting the Twitter feed , noting that the tweets were ending up on tape. It is ...

At IDCC2013 in Amsterdam I presented the paper Distributed Digital Preservation in the Cloud in which Daniel Vargas and I described an exp...

Following on from my talk at the 2012 Fall CNI meeting on 11 th December Gerry Bayne interviewed me about the economics of using cloud se...

At the suggestion of my long-time friend Frankie, I've been reading Trillions , a book by Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay and Mickey McManus. Th...

MIT's Technology Review has a nice article about Scott Ainsworth et al 's important paper How Much Of The Web Is Archived? ( read...

Carl Franzen at talkingpointsmemo.com pointed me to the report from the Library of Congress on the state of their ingest of the Twitter-str...