Company News

We hope to provide you with a feel for our company's capabilities and track record by highlighting a few of our notable projects and events...

Summer 2011 - CODATA's Data At Risk Task Group -- Proud to be a member! .CODATA, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary Scientific Committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU) has a number of task groups which deal with various issues. One of these is Data at Risk Task Group (DARTG). MMC founder Chris Muller is a new member. For more detail please see our recent newsletter.

April 2011 - Recovery/Conversion of Penobscot Dictionary Diskette Files. .We had great enjoyment helping the American Philosophical Society with this project. The dictionary compiled in the 1970's and 80's only existed on these old floppies and some old printouts, impossible to scan. Our job was to crack a 1980's proprietary file and diskette format, then convert 31 floppies. For more detail please see our recent newsletter.

January 2011 - Recovery of Peruvian 1981 Census Data. .Well, 97%, anyway. We are very proud to have accomplished this task, using skills such as custom programming, tape reel reading, cleaning, splicing, and even baking. Click here to see the press release.

July 2010 - NEW: Microfilm Both In and Out. .MMC has introduced powerful new capabilities for scanning and archiving to microfilm and microfiche. Click here to see the press release.

January 2009 to early 2010 - Onsite in PA, Federal Conversions, Tapes from Overseas, and our "Digital Alexandria". A major corporation requested that we set up the software, equipment and support for them to take on the processing of thousands of their own legacy tapes. Several different federal agencies requested recovery of data from a variety of arcane media and file formats, sometimes with custom software development. Thanks to IPUMS, it's been a thrill to work with tapes coming in from places like Kathmandu, Mali, Kenya, etc. This has provided inspiration for a presentation we've given at a number of events. Click here to see that.

August-September 2008: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.  The National Science Foundation, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Population Center selected Muller Media Conversions to create a Data Recovery Laboratory for the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics in Dhaka.. Please click here to see more information about the project.

December 2007 - March 2008: Denver Federal Center. In the USA, certain digital assets that might otherwise not receive much attention are nudged to the forefront by litigation. That was the case when Native American tribes filed suit claiming that the federal government had not kept complete-enough records of mineral rights and other payments due to them over many decades. A judicial order included processing nearly 9,000 legacy mainframe tapes. See the PDF press release.

August 2006: NARA DMU Project. MMC has just completed the latest in a series of software developments for the National Archives.  See this page for more detail.