Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed
The author details a robust technical infrastructure built to archive every frame from the FogCam webcam feed. By using multiple redundant capture methods and cloud storage, the project ensures a permanent, verifiable record of the camera's history.
Why it matters
This project highlights the challenges of digital preservation and the fragility of internet-based media archives.
FogCam publishes one picture at a time and throws it away when the next one lands. Fog-Bank keeps every one of them, and when something goes wrong (on my side or FogCam's), the record shows exactly when, for how long and whose fault it was.
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