#borndigital — Public Fediverse posts

Internet Archive: Preserving a Creative Legacy: How CARTA is Safeguarding Artists’ Websites. “Art historians, critics, curators, and humanities scholars rely on artists’ records to understand and contextualize contemporary artistic practice. To support the accessibility and discoverability of these websites for art historical scholarship in the future, the Internet Archive’s Collaborative […]

Internet Archive: Preserving a Creative Legacy: How CARTA is Safeguarding Artists’ Websites. “Art historians, critics, curators, and humanities scholars rely on artists’ records to understand and contextualize contemporary artistic practice. To support the accessibility and discoverability of these websites for art historical scholarship in the future, the Internet Archive’s Collaborative […]

Internet Archive: Preserving a Creative Legacy: How CARTA is Safeguarding Artists’ Websites. “Art historians, critics, curators, and humanities scholars rely on artists’ records to understand and contextualize contemporary artistic practice. To support the accessibility and discoverability of these websites for art historical scholarship in the future, the Internet Archive’s Collaborative […]

Internet Archive: Preserving a Creative Legacy: How CARTA is Safeguarding Artists’ Websites. “Art historians, critics, curators, and humanities scholars rely on artists’ records to understand and contextualize contemporary artistic practice. To support the accessibility and discoverability of these websites for art historical scholarship in the future, the Internet Archive’s Collaborative […]

Internet Archive: Preserving a Creative Legacy: How CARTA is Safeguarding Artists’ Websites. “Art historians, critics, curators, and humanities scholars rely on artists’ records to understand and contextualize contemporary artistic practice. To support the accessibility and discoverability of these websites for art historical scholarship in the future, the Internet Archive’s Collaborative […]

Data Rescue Project: Announcing the DRP Metadata Analyst. “Today’s post is an interview with our new Metadata Analyst! The DRP is grateful to be able to offer this position throught the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors.”

Data Rescue Project: Announcing the DRP Metadata Analyst. “Today’s post is an interview with our new Metadata Analyst! The DRP is grateful to be able to offer this position throught the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors.”

Data Rescue Project: Announcing the DRP Metadata Analyst. “Today’s post is an interview with our new Metadata Analyst! The DRP is grateful to be able to offer this position throught the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors.”

Data Rescue Project: Announcing the DRP Metadata Analyst. “Today’s post is an interview with our new Metadata Analyst! The DRP is grateful to be able to offer this position throught the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors.”

Data Rescue Project: Announcing the DRP Metadata Analyst. “Today’s post is an interview with our new Metadata Analyst! The DRP is grateful to be able to offer this position throught the generous support of the Portfolio to Protect Science, a fiscally sponsored initiative of Global Impact, as well as other anonymous individual donors.”

Gizmodo: Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?. “…for this Giz Asks, we asked experts in computer science, cybersecurity, and archival research to consider the idea of ‘permanence,’ specifically in the context of how we record, track, and store information. That is, is there such a thing as permanent data storage?”

Gizmodo: Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?. “…for this Giz Asks, we asked experts in computer science, cybersecurity, and archival research to consider the idea of ‘permanence,’ specifically in the context of how we record, track, and store information. That is, is there such a thing as permanent data storage?”

Gizmodo: Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?. “…for this Giz Asks, we asked experts in computer science, cybersecurity, and archival research to consider the idea of ‘permanence,’ specifically in the context of how we record, track, and store information. That is, is there such a thing as permanent data storage?”

Gizmodo: Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?. “…for this Giz Asks, we asked experts in computer science, cybersecurity, and archival research to consider the idea of ‘permanence,’ specifically in the context of how we record, track, and store information. That is, is there such a thing as permanent data storage?”

Gizmodo: Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?. “…for this Giz Asks, we asked experts in computer science, cybersecurity, and archival research to consider the idea of ‘permanence,’ specifically in the context of how we record, track, and store information. That is, is there such a thing as permanent data storage?”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

Library of Congress Blogs: 2026 Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections. “This year’s event attracted 172 of the world’s leading experts in data storage infrastructure, best practices, innovation, and future projections of the digital preservation ecosystem. The Library’s DSA organizers arranged a robust agenda to foster open discussion of current challenges in digital […]

Library of Congress Blogs: 2026 Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections. “This year’s event attracted 172 of the world’s leading experts in data storage infrastructure, best practices, innovation, and future projections of the digital preservation ecosystem. The Library’s DSA organizers arranged a robust agenda to foster open discussion of current challenges in digital […]

Engadget: California lawmakers are working on a bill to preserve access to online games . “A bill that could require game publishers to offer a way to access online games after they are no longer actively supported is making its way to a floor vote in the California State Assembly, the first step on its way to becoming law, Ars Technica reports.”

Engadget: California lawmakers are working on a bill to preserve access to online games . “A bill that could require game publishers to offer a way to access online games after they are no longer actively supported is making its way to a floor vote in the California State Assembly, the first step on its way to becoming law, Ars Technica reports.”

Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]

Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]

Washington University in St. Louis: New Guide Helps Poets Preserve Digital Work. “The guide provides practical recommendations that poets and other writers can implement immediately to support the longevity of their work. As contemporary creative practice increasingly takes place in digital environments, poets face new challenges in managing, organizing, and preserving their files.”

Washington University in St. Louis: New Guide Helps Poets Preserve Digital Work. “The guide provides practical recommendations that poets and other writers can implement immediately to support the longevity of their work. As contemporary creative practice increasingly takes place in digital environments, poets face new challenges in managing, organizing, and preserving their files.”

TechCrunch: The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem. “Automattic says that its new plug-in works by scanning your WordPress posts for outbound links, then cross-referencing the Wayback Machine for archived versions of those links. If there are none, it will automatically take new snapshots of the articles in question. Should a linked web […]

TechCrunch: The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem. “Automattic says that its new plug-in works by scanning your WordPress posts for outbound links, then cross-referencing the Wayback Machine for archived versions of those links. If there are none, it will automatically take new snapshots of the articles in question. Should a linked web […]

Library of Congress: Web Archiving at the Library After 25 Years. “The Web Archiving Program started as a small pilot program to archive the 2000 Presidential election. The following year, the September 11th attacks happened. Suddenly, there was a lot of material online about the terrorist attacks. The Library and some external partners quickly ramped up web archiving efforts to try to preserve […]

Library of Congress: Web Archiving at the Library After 25 Years. “The Web Archiving Program started as a small pilot program to archive the 2000 Presidential election. The following year, the September 11th attacks happened. Suddenly, there was a lot of material online about the terrorist attacks. The Library and some external partners quickly ramped up web archiving efforts to try to preserve […]

Opportunities for Youth: WARC School 2026 – Archiving the Black Web (ATBW). “Archiving the Black Web (ATBW) is excited to announce applications for the second cohort of WARC School Fellows, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants. This program supports Black memory-collecting institutions through hands-on web archiving training, in-person workshops, and virtual courses.”

Opportunities for Youth: WARC School 2026 – Archiving the Black Web (ATBW). “Archiving the Black Web (ATBW) is excited to announce applications for the second cohort of WARC School Fellows, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants. This program supports Black memory-collecting institutions through hands-on web archiving training, in-person workshops, and virtual courses.”

Dean Hume: Backup Buddy: A Simple Tool to Backup Your Website Content. “Backup Buddy takes a website’s sitemap and automatically downloads every page, converting the HTML into clean Markdown format while saving all the images (and videos) locally. Think of it as creating a time capsule of your website that you can read, search, and store anywhere – no internet required.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/04/backup-buddy-a-simple-tool-to-backup-your-website-content-dean-hume/

Dean Hume: Backup Buddy: A Simple Tool to Backup Your Website Content. “Backup Buddy takes a website’s sitemap and automatically downloads every page, converting the HTML into clean Markdown format while saving all the images (and videos) locally. Think of it as creating a time capsule of your website that you can read, search, and store anywhere – no internet required.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/04/backup-buddy-a-simple-tool-to-backup-your-website-content-dean-hume/

Poynter: Poynter, IRE and Internet Archive launch ‘Today’s News for Tomorrow,’ a project to help newsrooms preserve their digital footprint. “The Poynter Institute partners with Internet Archive and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) to bring preservation and web archive training to 300 news organizations throughout 2026 and 2027.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/03/poynter-poynter-ire-and-internet-archive-launch-todays-news-for-tomorrow-a-project-to-help-newsrooms-preserve-their-digital-footprint/

Poynter: Poynter, IRE and Internet Archive launch ‘Today’s News for Tomorrow,’ a project to help newsrooms preserve their digital footprint. “The Poynter Institute partners with Internet Archive and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) to bring preservation and web archive training to 300 news organizations throughout 2026 and 2027.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/03/poynter-poynter-ire-and-internet-archive-launch-todays-news-for-tomorrow-a-project-to-help-newsrooms-preserve-their-digital-footprint/