From: Douglas County Historical Society <dchs@douglashistory.org> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:16:59 -0600 Message-ID: <CAOJc7HvWo689-GwtX-sEffOEs3weBsnZOgukUq0cKoajsTWdHA@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Math & History are colliding
Many reasons not to just keep on the thumb drive. My main career for the
last 30+ years has been in IT. Thumb drives fail with few options to
recover the data. The average cost for professional recovery is around
$400-$500.
100,000 KB is 0.1 GB so yes your google account should be able to handle
this much data. It is only 100MB.
That said you should use at least a 3-2-1 backup policy on all your digital
files. 3 copies, 2 media, 1 offside. For example, have backups on at
least two USB devices (hard drives preferred) and one backup in the
"cloud" google drive, idrive, carbonite as a few examples.
now for the files. documents should be saved to PDF or PDF/A (archival
format)
photos should be converted from JPG, PNG or GIF to TIF format. TIF is a
lossless stable format, each time you copy from the other formats a bit of
data is lost.
There is a lot more about digital preservation with checking the integrity
of the files over time (fixity).
If you have any questions I'll be happy to help, I'm still learning about
digital preservation.
Your first steps should be to copy the files from the thumb drive to a
folder on a computer and then upload them to your google drive account.
Jon Winter
Douglas County Historical Society
1101 John Avenue Superior WI 54880
Business Manager
715-392-8449
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 9:01 AM Erik Flesch <museumdirector@platteville.org
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wrote:
> Diana,
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> Why not just keep the data on the thumb drive?
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> Erik
>
> *Erik Flesch*
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> *Museum Director*
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> *The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums | City of Platteville*
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> 405 East Main Street/P.O. Box 780 | Platteville, WI 53818
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> (608) 348-3301 <(608)%20348-3301>
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> museumdirector@platteville.org | mining.jamison.museum
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 15, 2021, at 8:23 AM, Samuel Marshall <marshallwimuseum@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>
> Hello folks,
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> I am in need of some technical help. We have rec'd on a thumb drive, 35
> years worth of journals. By each day.
> I looked at one year of the pics files. Each year contains ABOUT 100,000
> KB.
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> So, will our FREE google account accept this much data?
> Would we be wiser to take it to Kinko's and have each pic printed out?
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> Diana Skalitzky,
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>