Beyond the Image: Examining the Overlooked Variability in Floppy Disk Imaging Practices : Long Paper - iPRES 2025 - Wellington, New Zealand / Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa
Abstract
Disk imaging has become a common practice in the field of digital preservation. This process ensures a faithful capture and storage of digital content from a diverse range of storage media, including hard drives, flash storage and floppy disks. However, the field often takes for granted the perceived uniformity of disk images and their workflows. In our recent years working on ingest of portable storage media, we have been seeing a significant variability in how floppy disk images are created, processed and interpreted. This paper will explore this topic through case studies and highlight current technical and conceptual gaps that persist in the approach of the digital preservation field to disk images. Our findings emphasize the need for a more nuanced understanding of disk imaging, opening up a discussion to ensure more robust preservation outcomes.Details
- Creators
- Leontien Talboom; Chris Knowles
- Institutions
- Date
- 2025-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- digital humanities
- Publication Type
- paper
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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