Digital Bedrock
Digital Bedrock is the archive-preservation company led by Linda Todich in Marketplace Tech episodes on digital archiving. Digital archiving and the global memory shortage says the company preserves archives for museums, libraries, movie studios, and TV studios.
The company is the episode’s concrete institutional case for Digital Preservation under Memory Chip Shortage. Todich says Digital Bedrock bought whatever compatible hard drives it could find for its servers, showing how AI-driven AI Hardware Supply Chain Pressure can reach cultural and media archives that are far from the model-lab headline story.
Why digital archiving is more than "store and ignore" adds Digital Bedrock as a legacy-recovery shop as well as a storage-preservation company. Its WIPR work depended on reconstructing the Preservation Technical Environment for old LTO3 tapes, identifying a Windows NT Backup setup, and making the recovered public-broadcasting recordings available through the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
Connections
- Linda Todich - CEO and episode guest.
- Digital Preservation - main institutional practice.
- Memory Chip Shortage and AI Hardware Supply Chain Pressure - supply context affecting the company’s work.
- Cloud Storage Physicality and Preservation Technical Environment - physical and technical dependency layers emphasized in the later episode.
- WIPR and American Archive of Public Broadcasting - recovery case and public-access destination.
- Personal Digital Archiving - consumer-side preservation problem Todich also discusses.