Tag: digital preservation
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Scientists Race to Digitize Fragile Analog Lectures of the 1970s
Time is running out for a groundbreaking trove of scientific knowledge Thousands of hours of lectures, conferences, and discussions—spanning mathematics, physics, philosophy, and the history of science—are held on fragile analog tapes dating back to the early 1970s. This archive captures the evolution of ideas as they were taking shape, recording not just final theories…
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Rescuing the Archive: Scientists Race to Digitize 100,000 Hours of Groundbreaking Lectures
Countdown to Preservation: Why the Archive Matters Across the globe, a vast trove of lectures and discussions recorded from the 1970s onward sits on fragile magnetic tapes. These recordings, spanning mathematics, physics, philosophy, and the history of science, capture the evolution of ideas as they happened. With each passing year, the risk of decay and…
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Lecture Archive Preservation: Crowdfunding to Save 1970s Lectures
Preserving a Quiet Revolution in Science Thousands of hours of groundbreaking lectures, discussions, and conferences from the 1970s onward are at risk of disappearing as fragile analog tapes decay and technology evolves beyond the equipment to play them. A new effort, led by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose and anchored in Cambridge, aims to rescue…