forwarded, DAT storage conversion query

[Richard Boyden <richard.boyden@sanbruno.nara.gov>]

Greetings: this is a re-forwarded message from E-RECS which should
be of interest to many in BAPNet:

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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:18:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom and Michelle Ruller <ruller@Klink.Net>
To: erecs-l@CNSIBM.ALBANY.EDU
Subject: Data Storage on Digital Audio Tape

The attached message was originally posted to the Archives and
Archivists List. Perhaps some members of ERECS-L may have some
advice to offer to this individual.  It seems to me that the report from the
National Media Lab that was published a couple of years ago may be a
useful resource.  Is that report a useful resource for this question?  If so,
does anyone have the correct citation to the report?

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Poster:       HOLLINGER RICHARD VERNON <lbhollin@UXMAIL.UST.HK>
Subject:      Transferring Instrumentation Data from Digital Audio Tape
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We will be accessioning a series of instrumentation data sets that are
currently stored on DAT, with about 2 gigibytes of data stored on each
tape.  For a variety of reasons, I would prefer not to use DAT as the
long-term storage medium this data, but there are problems trying to
break up the datasets (1-2 gigibytes) for storage on 9-track tapes or
optical disks because of their limited storage capacities.

I wonder if anyone else has dealt with data stored on DAT, or with large
datasets such as this stored on other fragile media (eg. mageto-optical
disks).  What would be the recommended storage medium?

Richard Hollinger
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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