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Optical Media

Added by Andrew Jackson · last edited by Andrew Jackson · on Jan 11, 2011

Robots

Notes on available systems for handling large volumes of optical media and transferring the contents to other media.
NSM 7000
DupliQ

Care, Handling & Cleaning

http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/papers/CDandDVDCareandHandlingGuide.pdf
Do you have any suggestions or existing guidelines for optical media cleaning in Digital Preservation? Or any suggestions as to cleaning tools? I’m specifically interested in dust removal, and cloth/material for wiping…

Papers

Mass CD/DVD Migration: A Novartis Case Study, Daniela Bienz and Rudolf Gschwind, University of Basel; and Mario F. Pozzaand and Ludwig Gantner, Novartis (Switzerland).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_media_preservation but this focusses on preserving the media, not the content