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Moving 4.3 million digital newspapers

The National Library of Norway has undertaken a massive re-archiving project to migrate 4.3 million digital newspapers (2.5 petabytes) from their 2007 bit-repository to our new Digital Preservation Services system. The project involved extensive data cleanup, checksum generation, and quality improvements, achieving migration speeds of up to 42TB per day.

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2024-11-06

Better Late Than Never: Adding Checksums to 16 Million Legacy Files

Case study on verifying 2.5 Petabytes of legacy data during migration at the National Library of Norway. Details how checksums validated 16 million files across multiple storage copies, finding zero corruptions after 20 years.

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2024-11-06

Digital preservation poster

Explore our digital preservation awareness poster, available in both English and Norwegian, which visualizes key principles and practices of digital preservation at the National Library of Norway.

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2024-09-30

Rearchiving 2 million hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process

Learn how the National Library successfully migrated 2.2 million hours of digital radio archives (1 Petabyte) from a 2007 bit-repository to a modern Digital Preservation System, including the technical challenges, improvements, and lessons learned during this massive preservation project.

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2024-08-28

Preferred Digital Formats at the National Library

The National Library has revised its list of file formats preferred for digital preservation.

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2024-07-05

Presentation from the Digital libraries: storage for now and forever conference

Presentation from the Digital libraries: storage for now and forever conference

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2024-05-29

Ambitions, Goals, and Strategy for Digital Preservation at the National Library

The Digital Preservation Team at the National Library (NLN) has developed its first strategy for digital preservation.

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2024-02-20

Team Digital Preservation

Presentation of the Digital Preservation team at the National Library of Norway

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2023-10-26