How Not to Build a Digital Archive: Lessons from the Dark Side of the Force. David Portman. Preservica. December 21, 2016.
This post is an interesting and humorous look at Star Wars archiving: "Fans of the latest Star Wars saga Rogue One will notice that Digital Archiving forms a prominent part in the new film. This is good news for all of us in the industry, as we can use it as an example of how we are working every day to ensure the durability and security of our content. Perhaps more importantly it makes our jobs sound much more glamorous – when asked 'so what do you do' we can start with 'remember the bit in Rogue One….'"
The Empire’s choice of archiving technology is not perfect and there are flaws in their Digital Preservation policy in many areas, such as security, metadata, redundancy, access controls, off site storage, and format policy. Their approaches are "hardly the stuff of a trusted digital repository!"
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