NYPL Digital Preservation Program

This site documents:

  • the policies of the New York Public Library Digital Preservation Program
  • the usage of Preservica as the Library's digital repository
  • blog posts about work currently happening within the program

Recent Posts

Why DPI

Oct 3, 2022 “Images for publication should be at least 300 DPI” You’ve probably seen something like this on the licensing/reproduction/etc pages of many cultural organizations. And in...

exFAT: A File System for Your Portable Drives

Feb 14, 2022 exFAT: A File System for Your Portable Drives We use a lot of portable drives at the library. They range in size from 500 GB...

Sed It and Forget It: Stream Editing and Metadata Repairs

Jan 30, 2019 I made a mistake prepping some metadata files the other day. I picked the wrong three-letter code for a division field for use in a...

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