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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #borndigital, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-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-stratosphe/
  2. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-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-stratosphe/
  3. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-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-stratosphe/
  4. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-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-stratosphe/
  5. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-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-stratosphe/
  6. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/washington-university-in-st-louis-new-guide-helps-poets-preserve-digital-work/
  7. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/05/techcrunch-the-wayback-machine-debuts-a-new-plug-in-designed-to-fix-the-internets-broken-links-problem/
  8. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/15/library-of-congress-web-archiving-at-the-library-after-25-years/
  9. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/26/opportunities-for-youth-warc-school-2026-archiving-the-black-web-atbw/
  10. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/26/opportunities-for-youth-warc-school-2026-archiving-the-black-web-atbw/
  11. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/26/opportunities-for-youth-warc-school-2026-archiving-the-black-web-atbw/
  12. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/26/opportunities-for-youth-warc-school-2026-archiving-the-black-web-atbw/
  13. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/26/opportunities-for-youth-warc-school-2026-archiving-the-black-web-atbw/
  14. Slaw: The Data Rescue Project: Preserving Government Data Is a Tech & Community Issue. “Precursors to the Data Rescue Project such as the End of Term Web Archive, which captures federal government data after presidential administration transitions, the 2017 Data Refuge Project, and the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), laid the groundwork for 2025 preservation efforts, but […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/the-data-rescue-project-preserving-government-data-is-a-tech-community-issue-slaw/

  15. National Library of Finland: Stepping up to the plate – Saving the Finnish baseball season. “The most recent Finnish baseball season was full of twists and debates. The National Library of Finland preserved online content related to the sport during the 2025 season.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/24/national-library-of-finland-stepping-up-to-the-plate-saving-the-finnish-baseball-season/

  16. CNN: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved. “The White House in January ordered vast amounts of government webpages to be taken down. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is blurring the line between what’s real and what’s artificially generated — in some ways replacing the need to visit websites entirely. And more of the internet is now hidden behind paywalls or […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/17/cnn-inside-the-old-church-where-one-trillion-webpages-are-being-saved/

  17. Indicator: The Indicator Guide to tools for capturing webpages and social media content. “We tested 11 tools ranging from full-featured continuous capture apps to one-off screenshot extensions for grabbing long webpages.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/23/indicator-the-indicator-guide-to-tools-for-capturing-webpages-and-social-media-content/

  18. Digital Preservation Coalition: Archiving Facebook, Right Now. “Archiving social media is a long-standing concern for digital preservation, and a challenge that only seems to get more difficult as the years go by. Recently, we’ve had a couple of members raise questions in this area, and so I spent a little time looking at a specific example: If you need to archive a Facebook account now, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/20/digital-preservation-coalition-archiving-facebook-right-now/

  19. NiemanLab: It just got easier to make an archival copy of that website you’re digging into. “Today Bellingcat, the OSINT-fueled news organization, announced a new version of its tool Auto Archiver, which it describes as ‘a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down’ — a critical need for any reporting on our lives online.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/14/niemanlab-it-just-got-easier-to-make-an-archival-copy-of-that-website-youre-digging-into/

  20. How-To Geek: The 8 Best Internet Archive Alternatives for Digging Up Old Stuff. “Until recently, the Internet Archive has been my go-to wayback machine for accessing websites, documents, and files that are no longer available on their original sites. But lately, I’ve discovered some other sites that let you dig up old stuff in totally new ways. These are some of the best Internet Archive […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/how-to-geek-the-8-best-internet-archive-alternatives-for-digging-up-old-stuff/

  21. Internet Archive Blog: Wayback Machine to Hit ‘Once-in-a-Generation Milestone’ this October: One Trillion Web Pages Archived. “This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That’s one trillion memories, moments, and movements—preserved for the public, forever.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/wayback-machine-to-hit-once-in-a-generation-milestone-this-october-one-trillion-web-pages-archived-internet-archive/

  22. [BLOG] Archiving and Preserving my PhD Thesis: Reflections for Further Research

    New WP7 research associate, Holly Turpin, reflects on her own experience of archiving and preserving a #PhD #Thesis and related outputs, as a means of kickstarting further research as part of Open Book Futures.

    Read more 👉 buff.ly/2QlaKCo

    #doctoralresearch #libraries #digitalpreservation #borndigital #emergingformats #openresearch #openaccess

  23. [BLOG] Archiving and Preserving my PhD Thesis: Reflections for Further Research

    New WP7 research associate, Holly Turpin, reflects on her own experience of archiving and preserving a #PhD #Thesis and related outputs, as a means of kickstarting further research as part of Open Book Futures.

    Read more 👉 buff.ly/2QlaKCo

    #doctoralresearch #libraries #digitalpreservation #borndigital #emergingformats #openresearch #openaccess

  24. [BLOG] Archiving and Preserving my PhD Thesis: Reflections for Further Research

    New WP7 research associate, Holly Turpin, reflects on her own experience of archiving and preserving a #PhD #Thesis and related outputs, as a means of kickstarting further research as part of Open Book Futures.

    Read more 👉 buff.ly/2QlaKCo

    #doctoralresearch #libraries #digitalpreservation #borndigital #emergingformats #openresearch #openaccess

  25. [BLOG] Archiving and Preserving my PhD Thesis: Reflections for Further Research

    New WP7 research associate, Holly Turpin, reflects on her own experience of archiving and preserving a #PhD #Thesis and related outputs, as a means of kickstarting further research as part of Open Book Futures.

    Read more 👉 buff.ly/2QlaKCo

    #doctoralresearch #libraries #digitalpreservation #borndigital #emergingformats #openresearch #openaccess

  26. [BLOG] Archiving and Preserving my PhD Thesis: Reflections for Further Research

    New WP7 research associate, Holly Turpin, reflects on her own experience of archiving and preserving a #PhD #Thesis and related outputs, as a means of kickstarting further research as part of Open Book Futures.

    Read more 👉 buff.ly/2QlaKCo

    #doctoralresearch #libraries #digitalpreservation #borndigital #emergingformats #openresearch #openaccess

  27. #NDF25 Now: Impactful Stewardship: Managing Born Digital Collections for Long-Term Preservation and Access \ Joshua Ng, Carly Lenz, Jan Hutař, Nicola Caldwell - Archives NZ & National Library of New Zealand Today, we're facilitating a #BornDigital #DigiPres #LongTermAccess workshop. ft. Jan Hutař

  28. #NationalLibraryWeek (month, why not?) Day 19/Question of the Month: What does a #specialcollection worker do? #DigitalAssetManagement, the wrangling of #borndigital content as well as the conversion of legacy collections to a digital format. And #metadata, can't forget that! Go to pacscl.org/what-we-do/for-rese & check out PACSCL's digital assets.

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

  30. Poynter: As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism. One Stanford fellow is working on a fix. “[Brandon] Tauszik discovered one of his projects, Syria Street, had disappeared due to link rot — the gradual decay of URLs and websites as they become broken, inaccessible or deleted over time. As a journalism fellow with the The Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford, Tauszik has […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/08/poynter-as-websites-disappear-link-rot-threatens-journalism-one-stanford-fellow-is-working-on-a-fix/

  31. Internet Archive Blog: Update on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive. “With two-thirds of the process complete, the 2024/2025 EOT crawl has collected more than 500 terabytes of material, including more than 100 million unique web pages. All this information, produced by the U.S. government—the largest publisher in the world—is preserved and available for public access at the Internet […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/07/internet-archive-blog-update-on-the-2024-2025-end-of-term-web-archive/

  32. CONF: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory
    2-4 April 2025
    University of London (in-person & online)

    This interdisciplinary conference explores the transformative impact of born-digital cultural heritage on humanities research. Keynote by Dorothy Berry (Smithsonian NMAAHC). Sessions include workshops, demos, & talks.

    sas.ac.uk/about-us/institutes-

    #BornDigital #DigitalArchives #CulturalHeritage #DigitalHumanities #Conference2025 #Archives

  33. Diese Woche widmen wir uns im #DigitalHistoryOFK gemeinsam mit Annabel Walz (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) dem komplexen Thema der Webarchivierung. Aus gedächtnisinstitutioneller Perspektive wird sie die Eigenschaften von #borndigital & #reborndigital Quellen, aber auch Best Practices für ihre Archivierung diskutieren, die auf #WebCrawling als Praktik & #WARC als Speicherformat setzen.

    🔜 Mi, 29. Nov., 4-6 pm - via Zoom

    ℹ️ Info: dhistory.hypotheses.org/6411

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    #DigitalHistory #WebArchive @histodons

  34. Nach der #DigHis23 geht es wieder mit dem #DigitalHistoryOFK weiter:

    Diesmal widmen wir uns dem Thema Langzeitarchivierung von Social-Media-Daten. Claus-Michael Schlesinger (Scholarly Makerspace, UB der HU Berlin) und Britta Woldering (@DNB_Aktuelles) präsentieren am Beispiel von Tweets, wie wir genuin digitale Quellen für die Zukunft bewahren können.

    🔜 Wann? Heute, 31. Mai, 4-6 pm - via Zoom

    ℹ️ Abstract & Teilnahme: dhistory.hypotheses.org/5697

    #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #borndigital