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AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385994

#HackerNews #AI #companies #physical #books #rare #books #preservation #digital #archiving

Raaaah lovely :😍

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mundaneum_Tir%C3%A4ng_Karteikaarten.jpg

via https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/discover-the-mundaneum-an-early-20th-century-internet.html

#documentation #archiving #data

The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here

The “best” model is not always the “best” model for you. Why I say this, is because Z.ai's model is still outperformed in some dimensions by proprietary models from Anthropic for example. But can you afford to actually use that top end “best of the best” model?

Very usually you cannot afford them. Now consider that the...

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/the-powerful-chinese-ai-model-experts-warned-about-is-here/
#ai #archiving #technology

The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-f9e90401-18a371bc21a0c3d6

I have a ton of old obsolete random CD-ROMs 'round here from the past four decades or so

everything from random magazine disks to obsolete local computer programs to phone books from 1994 to obscure video games

Most of them I can't find online. Would it be worth it to rip and preserve them somehow or somewhere, and if so, how is the best way to do it? Are there any real legal risks I'd take with this?

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #preservation #dataPreservation #archiving #webarchive

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/117087865807803450

This is also a big problem for digital collections of #culturalHeritage, for #museums, and #archives! If they don't have a "backup cloud".

#archiving #archivodon #digitalArchives #MuseumDigital #CloudComputing

Book preservation question:

I have a lot of picture books (really, a lot, like about 250) and I want to box them up. My kids are done with them for now but we'd like to keep our favourites for if/when they have kids or we have other small children visiting in the future.

What's the best way to store them so they don't get musty/mouldy?

#books #BookPreservation #archiving #advice

The Stage: Streetwise Opera awarded £189K grant to collate 25th anniversary archive. “Through recordings, photographs, scores, programmes and designs, Streetwise Opera will document its history of work with people who have experienced homelessness to co-create new opera from diverse voices.”

🗂️ Kageboard v0.2.0 is out.

Kageboard is a web dashboard for Kage, an offline website-mirroring tool. New in this release:

- Refresh mirrors in place to pull in changed content, with live progress
- Scheduled auto-refresh: set a mirror to update daily or weekly and forget about it
- Advanced clone options: scope the crawl to a path, exclude sections, keep media/PDFs, mobile-friendly rendering
- Pack mirrors into ZIM archives or single-file executable viewers, and download them right from the UI

https://github.com/jcrabapple/kageboard/releases/tag/v0.2.0

#selfhosting #indieweb #archiving

CrossAsia: Old Tibetan Prints, New Digital Access: PechaBridge and the Digital Collections at Stabi. “Digitization makes historical Tibetan pecha prints visible online, but visibility alone does not make their content readable, searchable, or reusable for research. PechaBridge is an open-source pipeline connecting digitized materials from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin with layout analysis, […]

I want to get rid of all these paper manuals.
Either download or maybe scan and then some folder to archive.
Is there something less complex than paperless to access/manage them with a Web UI?
I have paperless for important documents, but there is no need to have advanced features. Just folders and maybe tags should be sufficient.
#pdf #archive #archiving #opensource #dumpster #docker #selfhosting

As an anthropologist (as a folklorist) I am far more interested in noticing, treasuring, and finding beauty in things than in accomplishing any particular goal. As an anthropologist (as a strategist) I have the skill set for goals. And as an anthropologist (as an analyst) I do love to articulate a deeper meaning, to pull things apart and weave them back together. But from childhood, reading fairy tales (oral tradition, folklore), what nourished me was the inarticulable, the mystery, the don't-try-to-explain-this, the self-evident depth or paradox, the "it is" or "t'was thus."

Long before I was an anthropologist I considered myself an archivist. From childhood I collected material culture embodying meaning, from my life and from those around me: I considered it a contribution, to preserve things of meaning for others. And literally, what is archiving but treasuring?

I long to treasure everything. #folklore #anthropology #oralTradition #academicChatter #fairytales #archiving

Well, I'm very impressed with the #ArchiveBox upgrade story. Went from 0.7.x to 0.9.35rc203 and the process was relatively painless (I upgraded my debian testing box and got bumped to python 3.14; the 0.7.x branch only supports up to 3.13; I didn't want to try downgrading so I said "fuck it we ball" on upgrading archivebox instead). The interface is upgraded quite a bit. It looks like old snapshots, when doing the "re-snapshot" action, might get their configs mixed a bit, but I guess that's to be expected; perfect migrations are basically impossible. The "depth" of the crawl in that scenario seems to default to 1, rather than 0, meaning I didn't just grab the main URL of the snapshot like before but started grabbing 180+ other URLs one hop away.

I'll fiddle with it more later, but for now, I'm optimistic about continuing to use it for archival. They've embraced a plugin architecture too that has waaaay more archivers/extractors/parsers/what-nots than before. Maybe I can finally start to "fire-and-forget" for the major sites without constantly babying the snapshots.

#archiving #archival #archive

Thanks everyone who joined me liberate my old songs from crumbling software 💖!

Here’s the VOD with chapter marks:
https://youtu.be/BcvXhWcJSac

#music #archiving #chatting

Heritage Fund: Taking experiences with historic collections outside the archive’s walls. “Creating an archive about the fights for disability rights means thinking differently from the start. When we began creating the National Disability Movement Archive and Collection (NDMAC), we knew that preserving history was only part of the job. We also needed to think about how that history and […]

#israel #palestine : #opt / #westbank / #gaza / #identity / #culturalheritage / #archiving / #literature

„A new book documents efforts to preserve millennia of culture, refusing to surrender to the enclave’s #destruction while laying foundations for its future.“

https://www.972mag.com/archiving-gaza-culture-art-memory/

Thanks everyone who joined my first nerdy news round-up, the Digital Digest and then show old audio tools, rude software, and talk archiving & coffee 💖!

Here’s the VOD with chapter marks: https://youtu.be/o_hOgc6BC5o

#audiosoftware #retro #archiving

Looking for a #selfhosted option for site/link #archiving that strips ads bypasses WSJ and nyt #paywalls.

#homelab #osint #bookmarking #selfhositing #archive

What We Lose When the Chicago Branch of the National Archives Closes

History lives in old pieces of paper: newspaper articles, diaries, letters, trial transcripts, government memorandums. These are the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #archiving #Chicago #ChicagoFederalRecordsCenter #history #JayTrainer #nationalarchives #NationalArchivesandRecordsAdministration #UnitedStatesofAmerica
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/782268/

💾 Zibbp/ganymede

Automatically saves Twitch streams and broadcasts to local storage with synchronized chat playbacks, using Docker and FFmpeg for custom media rendering.

⭐ Stars: 979
📅 Last Update: Jul 04, 2026

https://github.com/Zibbp/ganymede

#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #archiving #twitch

Scientific American: History depends on records that weren’t built to last. “Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. Archivists are trying to preserve them before formats go dark or messages disappear without a trace.”