#borndigital — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #borndigital, aggregated by home.social.
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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.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/04/scientific-american-history-depends-on-records-that-werent-built-to-last/ -
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 […]