Tag: digital preservation

  • Postcards from 1910

    Postcards from 1910

    Digital humanities start at home. I present a small collection of postcards dating from 1908 to 1913, that I scanned yesterday as part of a larger collection of 50 letter envelopes (and few actual letters) that ‒ I think ‒ were sent or brought back to Italy when a relative of ours, Enrichetta Costa, passed…

  • Migrating a database from FileMaker Pro to SQLite

    FileMaker Pro is almost certainly one of the least interoperable cases of proprietary database management software. As such, it is the worst choice you could make to manage your data as far as digital preservation goes. Period. There is data to be salvaged out there. If you find data that you care about, you’ll want…