Teracopy 3.56/24/2023 Let’s meet our protagonist for the day: the compact disc, or CD, a format first introduced to the commercial market for music in 1982. In this post, I’ll take you through the journey of one seemingly familiar format through the typical procedures used in the WVRHC to remove content from the original media and make born-digital archival materials accessible. Sometimes the labels on items are a little bit less than helpful. These media formats contain what are known as born-digital materials, or materials that were originally created digitally. But there are many more formats in WVU’s archives: from 3.5 inch floppy disks to Zip disks to CDs, contemporary archives contain all of these material types and more. What kind of items come to mind when you think of archives or archival materials? What about digital archives? When it comes to digital archival materials, many people will think about scanned copies of physical materials like books or maybe even web pages saved to a platform like the Internet Archive. Written by Elizabeth James, the Digital Archivist at the West Virginia & Regional History Center.
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