At DHC we are fortunate to hold many hours of film and video footage featuring Dorset places, events and people form yesteryear. Much of this fantastic history is on formats we no longer have the equipment to play. And the pool of people with the expertise and equipment to transfer original formats to digital is… Read more The Fun of Old Film
Cast your mind back to 2013. That was the year scientists confirmed a skeleton buried under a car park in Leicester was that of English king Richard III; Andy Murray won Wimbledon for the first time; and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcomed a new royal baby. 2013 was also the year that we… Read more Working Together to Preserve our Digital Heritage
When we can physically see smoke from chimneys and smell fumes from cars it’s clear that they are polluting our environment but when we can’t see the smoke for ourselves it’s easy to forget about the environmental impact. Invisible, yet all around us, the internet is quickly becoming one of the major contributors to our… Read more The Internet, the Environment, and Storing Records
As archivists we are often taking in documents long after the events they relate to have passed, sometimes hundreds of years later! But as the way we create and store documents has changed we have changed our practices to include more proactive collecting. Modern media, including digital files, are much more fragile than paper and parchment. Risks include file… Read more The Digital Problems: Capturing the Coronavirus
Weekly at the Dorset History Centre we receive a range of collections from various bodies, from public institutions to private collectors. As an archive, most of the collections are paper or parchment format, and are stored in the thousands of boxes in the strong-rooms. To both assist online demand and to preserve the documents with… Read more Digital Preservation at DHC
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