#bdcam25 — Public Fediverse posts

@dpc_chat Technology Watch Guidance Note "Defining the Designated Community" (2023) http://doi.org/10.7207/twgn23-01 mentioned by @criticalsenses in her #BDCAM25 presentation "Digital Deposit Decision-Making: The Future Audiences Decision Model" especially in the context of the question "Do the donors and depositors of the digital content have expectations about who the content is being preserved for?" #DigitalPreservation

@dpc_chat Technology Watch Guidance Note "Defining the Designated Community" (2023) http://doi.org/10.7207/twgn23-01 mentioned by @criticalsenses in her #BDCAM25 presentation "Digital Deposit Decision-Making: The Future Audiences Decision Model" especially in the context of the question "Do the donors and depositors of the digital content have expectations about who the content is being preserved for?" #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 Another great presentation from @criticalsenses ,this time about her "Future Audiences Decision Model", intended to help guide organisations in decision making, when selecting and preparing digital content for deposit into a memory institution

#BDCAM25 Another great presentation from @criticalsenses ,this time about her "Future Audiences Decision Model", intended to help guide organisations in decision making, when selecting and preparing digital content for deposit into a memory institution

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Upcoming C2DH public exhibition @ 2-day gaming convention
Community-driven #DigitalPreservation
* Sharing disk images (abandonware sites, torrents)
* Use of emulators (e.g. DOSBox, Libretro, Lakka)
* Fan-made patches & engine recreations
* Preservation is often decentralised & grassroots (collectors, fans, online platforms)
Legal & ethical issues
* Preservation vs Piracy?
* Is fan-led sharing justified when companies don't preserve games?

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Upcoming C2DH public exhibition @ 2-day gaming convention
Community-driven #DigitalPreservation
* Sharing disk images (abandonware sites, torrents)
* Use of emulators (e.g. DOSBox, Libretro, Lakka)
* Fan-made patches & engine recreations
* Preservation is often decentralised & grassroots (collectors, fans, online platforms)
Legal & ethical issues
* Preservation vs Piracy?
* Is fan-led sharing justified when companies don't preserve games?

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Curatorial challenges: concept & narrative flow, target audience, games accessibility (game play, interfaces, latency, authors’ rights, etc.), nostalgic value, balance between triple-A best-sellers & less obvious choices
How to present games: emulation vs. old gaming console, gameplay relevance & contemporary significance
"Piracy proof (sort of... LOL)" 🤣
(with a nod to @misty's work) #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Curatorial challenges: concept & narrative flow, target audience, games accessibility (game play, interfaces, latency, authors’ rights, etc.), nostalgic value, balance between triple-A best-sellers & less obvious choices
How to present games: emulation vs. old gaming console, gameplay relevance & contemporary significance
"Piracy proof (sort of... LOL)" 🤣
(with a nod to @misty's work) #DigitalPreservation

Last batch of stickers on the @dpc_chat desk at #bdcam25

Last batch of stickers on the @dpc_chat desk at #bdcam25

#BDCAM25 "A history of the CD-ROM", a research project at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology done by Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) #DigitalHumanities https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/research-projects/cd-hist/

#BDCAM25 "A history of the CD-ROM", a research project at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology done by Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) #DigitalHumanities https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/research-projects/cd-hist/

Starting the last day of #BDCAM25 with several presentations about CD-ROMs "Born-Digital Collections, Archives, History and Memory of CD-ROMs"
"One of the only conferences where so many people are interested in a dead technology", as Valérie Schafer put it

Starting the last day of #BDCAM25 with several presentations about CD-ROMs "Born-Digital Collections, Archives, History and Memory of CD-ROMs"
"One of the only conferences where so many people are interested in a dead technology", as Valérie Schafer put it

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Expanding Computational Research of #BornDigital Collections"
LLTDM-X (Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross Border) Project: preliminary guidance for #DigitalHumanities practitioners (text & data mining) in international research collaborations https://buildinglltdm.org/lltdmx/

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Expanding Computational Research of #BornDigital Collections"
LLTDM-X (Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross Border) Project: preliminary guidance for #DigitalHumanities practitioners (text & data mining) in international research collaborations https://buildinglltdm.org/lltdmx/

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Expanding Computational Research of #BornDigital Collections"
TIL from Valérie Schafer about #DataFeminism (data are not neutral or objective) & "Big Dick Data" https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/czq9dfs5/release/3

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Expanding Computational Research of #BornDigital Collections"
TIL from Valérie Schafer about #DataFeminism (data are not neutral or objective) & "Big Dick Data" https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/czq9dfs5/release/3

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives & AI-based systems"
#DigitalHumanities Climate Coalition Toolkit mentioned by James Baker, a guide to making research practices more environmentally responsible https://sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit/

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives & AI-based systems"
#DigitalHumanities Climate Coalition Toolkit mentioned by James Baker, a guide to making research practices more environmentally responsible https://sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit/

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives and AI-based systems"
The report mentioned by Jane Winters generated from the presentations & conversations that took place during the workshop 'Archives and the environment' 2023 https://zenodo.org/records/10066510 #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives and AI-based systems"
The report mentioned by Jane Winters generated from the presentations & conversations that took place during the workshop 'Archives and the environment' 2023 https://zenodo.org/records/10066510 #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
#DigitalPreservation through emulation (using the Australian EaaSI emulation platform) for a CD-ROM archive of artworks @ Art Gallery NSW
Challenges
- Latency, lack of audio and visual synchronization
- IP permissions from creators
- EaaSI hosting resources
Archiving Australian Media Arts
- Stabilise at-risk media arts
- Develop a Community of Practice for software preservation in Australia
- Deliver access to born-digital cultural & artistic artefacts over EaaSI

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
#DigitalPreservation through emulation (using the Australian EaaSI emulation platform) for a CD-ROM archive of artworks @ Art Gallery NSW
Challenges
- Latency, lack of audio and visual synchronization
- IP permissions from creators
- EaaSI hosting resources
Archiving Australian Media Arts
- Stabilise at-risk media arts
- Develop a Community of Practice for software preservation in Australia
- Deliver access to born-digital cultural & artistic artefacts over EaaSI

Mentioned in a #BDCAM25 Lightning talk: DLF's Levels of Access, a set of format-agnostic baseline practices for born-digital access - concrete & actionable recommendations for implementing according to their needs, resources & abilities https://osf.io/r5f78/ #DigitalPreservation

Mentioned in a #BDCAM25 Lightning talk: DLF's Levels of Access, a set of format-agnostic baseline practices for born-digital access - concrete & actionable recommendations for implementing according to their needs, resources & abilities https://osf.io/r5f78/ #DigitalPreservation

Mentioned just now in one of the #BDCAM25 Lightning talks: the @dpc_chat’s Rapid Assessment Model (#DPCRAM), a #DigitalPreservation maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s #DigiPres capability & facilitate continuous improvement over time https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/dpc-ram

Mentioned just now in one of the #BDCAM25 Lightning talks: the @dpc_chat’s Rapid Assessment Model (#DPCRAM), a #DigitalPreservation maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s #DigiPres capability & facilitate continuous improvement over time https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/dpc-ram

#BDCAM25 Really interesting presentation from @criticalsenses & colleagues at the Science Museum Group about the #DigitalPreservation of the Absolute Unit meme, as well as the first steps in the #DigiPres programme of the SGM (DigiPres policy & guidelines, Digital Asset Register, Digital Formats Complexity Scale etc.)

#BDCAM25 Really interesting presentation from @criticalsenses & colleagues at the Science Museum Group about the #DigitalPreservation of the Absolute Unit meme, as well as the first steps in the #DigiPres programme of the SGM (DigiPres policy & guidelines, Digital Asset Register, Digital Formats Complexity Scale etc.)

For those wanting to learn more about #PREMIS, the #DigiPres metadata dictionary & schema mentioned in the #BDCAM25 session on the #DigitalPreservation of complex (museum) digital objects
https://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

For those wanting to learn more about #PREMIS, the #DigiPres metadata dictionary & schema mentioned in the #BDCAM25 session on the #DigitalPreservation of complex (museum) digital objects
https://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

#BDCAM25 Bec BC & Jo Fleming (remote presentation from Sidney with a cute good-night kiss from Jo's kid): #DigitalPreservation of complex time-based artworks is like playing a game of Snakes & ladders - 1 step forward, 3 backwards
Ensure the artwork remains: authentic, able to be rendered, easily discovered, able to be displayed
Challenges:
Obsolescence
Technology-software, hardware
Resourcing-technical skills & budgets
Artist intent
Work can be displayed

#BDCAM25 Bec BC & Jo Fleming (remote presentation from Sidney with a cute good-night kiss from Jo's kid): #DigitalPreservation of complex time-based artworks is like playing a game of Snakes & ladders - 1 step forward, 3 backwards
Ensure the artwork remains: authentic, able to be rendered, easily discovered, able to be displayed
Challenges:
Obsolescence
Technology-software, hardware
Resourcing-technical skills & budgets
Artist intent
Work can be displayed

#BDCAM25 Anna Mladentseva & @ndkane presenting on the
Collecting & Conservation Challenges for Mobile Apps from a museum perspective
For the V&A a 'core object' is defined, which is central to the object's understanding along with any 'auxiliary objects', including designs, complementary artefacts or documentation (textual or video). Emulation as a #DigitalPreservation strategy: VirtualBox + Android x86 / Android SDK

#BDCAM25 Anna Mladentseva & @ndkane presenting on the
Collecting & Conservation Challenges for Mobile Apps from a museum perspective
For the V&A a 'core object' is defined, which is central to the object's understanding along with any 'auxiliary objects', including designs, complementary artefacts or documentation (textual or video). Emulation as a #DigitalPreservation strategy: VirtualBox + Android x86 / Android SDK

Starting day 2 of #BDCAM25 with a session on collecting & #DigitalPreservation of complex objects. What are "complex objects"? Very good question, with the usual #DigiPres answer "It depends". You might want to have a look at this thread for stronger opinions 😉 https://digipres.club/@BertrandCaron/114002134938577661

Starting day 2 of #BDCAM25 with a session on collecting & #DigitalPreservation of complex objects. What are "complex objects"? Very good question, with the usual #DigiPres answer "It depends". You might want to have a look at this thread for stronger opinions 😉 https://digipres.club/@BertrandCaron/114002134938577661

#BDCAM25 "Looking back through opaque glasses - What born-digital archives can learn from analog" Keynote Lecture by Dorothy Berry, the Digital Curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

#BDCAM25 "Looking back through opaque glasses - What born-digital archives can learn from analog" Keynote Lecture by Dorothy Berry, the Digital Curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
The Social Media Archive (SOMAR) is an initiative and data resource that tries to make social media data accessible and useful to researchers https://socialmediaarchive.org/pages/?page=About&ln=en

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
The Social Media Archive (SOMAR) is an initiative and data resource that tries to make social media data accessible and useful to researchers https://socialmediaarchive.org/pages/?page=About&ln=en

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
Another #DigitalPreservation challenge - archiving of translation technologies: preserving of an accessible yet slowly disappearing generation of both obsolete machines and early versions of more recent software. Challenges: combination of non-digital, digitized and born-digital tools, platformization of the profession and practices, the growing proportion of subscription-based services, the presence of AI and automation practices in the field

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
Another #DigitalPreservation challenge - archiving of translation technologies: preserving of an accessible yet slowly disappearing generation of both obsolete machines and early versions of more recent software. Challenges: combination of non-digital, digitized and born-digital tools, platformization of the profession and practices, the growing proportion of subscription-based services, the presence of AI and automation practices in the field

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
"Using Al to help work with data" at the UK National Archives - super interesting to not only get an idea about the technical pipeline, but also about the environmental impact (in terms we can all understand)

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
"Using Al to help work with data" at the UK National Archives - super interesting to not only get an idea about the technical pipeline, but also about the environmental impact (in terms we can all understand)

I love University of London's Leading Women timeline spotted during #BDCAM25 https://www.london.ac.uk/about/history/leading-women-1868

I love University of London's Leading Women timeline spotted during #BDCAM25 https://www.london.ac.uk/about/history/leading-women-1868

Colleagues from the Danish Royal Library showcasing the strengths of #SolrWayback, a powerful web application for searching and exploring data in #WebArchives by using memes about Trump and Greenland in their #BDCAM25 presentation
SolrWayback offers network analysis of domains, powerful visualization tools like N-gram, search by location on a map using EXIF metadata information in images, and, not least, the possibility to export data and derivatives from search results. https://github.com/netarchivesuite/solrwayback

Colleagues from the Danish Royal Library showcasing the strengths of #SolrWayback, a powerful web application for searching and exploring data in #WebArchives by using memes about Trump and Greenland in their #BDCAM25 presentation
SolrWayback offers network analysis of domains, powerful visualization tools like N-gram, search by location on a map using EXIF metadata information in images, and, not least, the possibility to export data and derivatives from search results. https://github.com/netarchivesuite/solrwayback

#DOWARC is a domain ontology for the Semantic modelling of #WebArchiving artefacts, such as WARC and CDX files, and web archiving activities. It was created as a metadata tool to support more sustainable and accessible archiving and #DigitalPreservation practices, particularly with regard to issues engendered by intensive versioning activities, such as lack of context and rise in storage demands. https://github.com/DOWARC/dowarc #BDCAM25

#DOWARC is a domain ontology for the Semantic modelling of #WebArchiving artefacts, such as WARC and CDX files, and web archiving activities. It was created as a metadata tool to support more sustainable and accessible archiving and #DigitalPreservation practices, particularly with regard to issues engendered by intensive versioning activities, such as lack of context and rise in storage demands. https://github.com/DOWARC/dowarc #BDCAM25

#BDCAM25 Huellas Incómodas (Uncomfortable Footprints) is a #DigitalPreservation initiative that works to document, contextualise and generate a public legacy of collective memory and the right to truth, based on #feminist social struggles in #LatinAmerica. The project arises from the ephemeral nature of expressions of protest in the physical and digital public space, which is what we call Footprints, and intervenes against the urge to erase them. https://idrhku.org/huellasincomodas/

#BDCAM25 Huellas Incómodas (Uncomfortable Footprints) is a #DigitalPreservation initiative that works to document, contextualise and generate a public legacy of collective memory and the right to truth, based on #feminist social struggles in #LatinAmerica. The project arises from the ephemeral nature of expressions of protest in the physical and digital public space, which is what we call Footprints, and intervenes against the urge to erase them. https://idrhku.org/huellasincomodas/

#BDCAM25 How to address these silences & biases?
1. Social media archiving
2. Raising awareness about the importance of websites and providing support for activists to create one
3. Prioritizing countries and topics that are underrepresented
4. Support #WebArchiving initiatives in Latin America
"A major act of determining historical meaning -perhaps the major act-occurs not when the historian opens the [archival] box, but when the archivist fills the box" (Cook, 2011)

#BDCAM25 How to address these silences & biases?
1. Social media archiving
2. Raising awareness about the importance of websites and providing support for activists to create one
3. Prioritizing countries and topics that are underrepresented
4. Support #WebArchiving initiatives in Latin America
"A major act of determining historical meaning -perhaps the major act-occurs not when the historian opens the [archival] box, but when the archivist fills the box" (Cook, 2011)

As with other aspects of #DigitalPreservation, Rosario Rogel-Salazar's & Alan Colín-Arce's #BDCAM25 presentation "Latin American Feminist Organizations in the Archived Websites" shows the huge divide between the Global South & the Global North in terms of #WebArchiving, especially websites presenting radical ideas or those for black, migrant, & indigenous women

Enjoying the brilliant spring sunshine in Russell Square, while having lunch (apparently the best sandwiches in town) and listening to a Scottish crime thriller #BDCAM25