Lazarus Archive · LZ-38771

Digital papers of Vikram Smit

Vikram Smit, 1996–2004. Personal archive for Windows 95 and 98.

Description

Photographs, letters, diaries and working files of a ferry captain from Port Thornstead.

Provenance

Deposited by Coldridge Library and Archives, from its own collections. Three disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
dfe3f288e9a906fe2bf0c4f4841aad35f4bb83b4d018d1df42725bffd96d0f1d
Last verified
Oct 3, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
TIFF, PDF/A-2b and FLAC, with the originals kept
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Sealed until 2030 at the request of its creator or their estate. This record is public; the contents will open on January 1, 2030.

Cite as: Vikram Smit, Digital papers of Vikram Smit (1996–2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38771.

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