1. ACCESSING
VITO
BUILDING ARCHIVES
@ THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
DONALD MENNERICH, CURATEGEAR 2013

2. VITO RUSSO

3. THE COLLECTION
• 18 5.25 inch floppy disks
• Hard copies printed on a borrowed Kaypro IV, sometime in the
1990s
• 2 of the 18 disks were marked as being ‘unreadable’

4. CP/M

5. WORKFLOW
Imaging
disk images
Analysis Restoration
restored files
metadata
Migration
migrated files
Indexing
Solr documents
Index Repository

6. DISK IMAGING

7. DFXML
JPG
Imaging
Metadata
Extraction
Photography
PREMIS Backup
METS Files
Document

9. RESTORATION /
CPMTOOLS
dm$ cpmls -f kpiv M2654-0001.001
0:
cher
drugs
elders
filtr
filtr.bak
fran
hambrick
hamlin
jed
judy
kaminsky

10. AUTOMATION
/ CPMRESTORE
private void getFiles() throws IOException, InterruptedException{
imageFile = new File(image);
if(!imageFile.exists()){
System.err.println("IMAGE FILE DOES NOT EXIST");
System.exit(1);
}
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/usr/local/bin/cpmls…
p.waitFor();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
String line=reader.readLine();
int count = 0;

11. ANALYSIS / FTK

14. MIGRATION
Donalds-MacBook-Pro:M2654-010 dm$ xxd albany | less
0000000: 0a0a 7669 746f 2072 7573 736f 202d 2073 ..vito russo - s
0000010: 7065 6563 6820 6769 7665 6e20 696e 2057 peech given in W
0000020: 6173 6869 6e67 746f 6e20 442e 432e 206f ashington D.C. o
0000030: 6e20 4f63 746f 6265 7220 3130 2c20 3139 n October 10, 19
0000040: 3838 0a0a 0a20 2020 2020 c120 4652 4945 88... . FRIE
0000050: 4ec4 204f c620 4d49 4ec5 2048 41d3 20c1 N. O. MIN. HA. .
0000060: 2048 414c c620 4641 52c5 2054 5241 4e53 HAL. FAR. TRANS
0000070: 49d4 2043 4152 c420 5748 4943 c820 48c5 I. CAR. WHIC. H.
0000080: 2055 5345 d320 8d0a 8d0a 8d0a 4fce 2042 USE. ......O. B

17. MIGRATION
April 12, 1988
Ted Schachter
MGM Telecommunications Inc.
10000 Washington
Boulevard
Culver City, California 90232
Dear Mr. Schachter,
I am writing to request the use of a brief clip from the MGM/UA film LA
CAGE AUX FOLLES in connectioon with my lecture presentation based on
my book THE CELLULOID CLOSET. Published by Harper & Row, THE
CELLULOID CLOSET is a critically acclaimed and highly respected
scholarly treatment of the various ways in which gay people have been
portrayed onscreen from silent movies to the present.

18. INDEXING

19. INDEXING
Word .CSV
Documents
Legacy
Metadata
Tika Gateway Full Text
Language
Buffered Code
Reader
File
Names Model
Orgs
OpenNLP
Locations Solr Document
Index

20. SEARCH
a live demo was here

21. ACCESS?

22. donaldmennerich@nypl.org