#borndigitalarchives — Public Fediverse posts

80 LV: Free Online Archive Of PS1 & N64 3D Models & Game Assets. “Retro gaming fans and game developers looking to learn from classic titles should check out Pardall Games, a solo project by Alfred Baudisch. Essentially, it’s an interactive digital museum and archive of assets from PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Sega Saturn games.”

Daily Mississippian: Leave a paper trail or get lost in history. “The answer is not to abandon digital archives, as they have allowed historical information to be more accessible for public viewing. We should strive to preserve and create more physical media. Physical newspapers, photographs, letters, records and other forms of physical media provide another way for future generations to […]

William & Mary: Data Science professor awarded grant to support partnership with Internet Archive and preserve digital history. “To help fight the loss of digital media, Dr. Alexander Nwala is leading a collaborative research project, CiteCast, to preserve web resources referenced in U.S. television news. Backed by a new $750,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Nwala, […]

Doc Searls: Reanimating a Corpus. Or Two. Or More.. “For many years, I have despaired of ever saving the contents of my old blog (1999-2007), my writing for Linux Journal (1996-2019), and countless other articles, essays, and posts, published mostly on the Web—which looks and sounds like a permanent place (‘sites,’ ‘locations,’ ‘domains’), but in fact is a whiteboard. Then, last week, I asked […]

International Business Times: Music, Video Games and News Archives Are Vanishing From Public Access, Internet Archive Report Finds. “Decades of music journalism and a huge slice of video game history have quietly disappeared from public access in recent years, according to a new Internet Archive report on cultural preservation. Titled Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record, […]

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 Blog: Archiving Democracy: How the U.S. End of Term Web Archive Preserves Government History. “The Internet Archive has participated in the End of Term (EOT) Archive since 2004, working alongside partner institutions to capture US government websites at every presidential transition. Over time the scope has grown, but the purpose remains the same: to preserve government […]

Digital Preservation at the University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives: Using Data Analysis to Untangle a 75TB Digital Preservation Problem. “For over two decades starting in 2000, the Streaming Media Service (SMS) served as the primary platform for managing and delivering audio and video content across the University. When the service reached its end-of-life in late 2025, the entire system […]

The Walrus: Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse. “The corpus is collapsing in real time. This degraded digital space should force a broader understanding of cultural sovereignty. Right now, the debate is framed largely as a fight over whether foreign mega platforms like Netflix, YouTube, or Spotify should support Canadian content. That charged conversation sidesteps the deeper […]

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?”

How-To Geek: Why I’ve started archiving software the same way I archive family photos. “I have a habit of keeping all my software and files, regardless of whether I use them regularly. I have a sweet deprecated version of Noteworthy Composer (to run on a VM) and a portable version of Reaper that I’ve been using for years. The modern web and modern services have made it increasingly difficult […]

Current Affairs: Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?. “From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it.”

Time Extension: This Cool Project Allows You To Emulate Old LCD Games, Including A Possible Nintendo First. “All of this is me arguing that LCD games did have their place in the wider gaming climate, even if today they are more commonly considered cheap plastic tat you’re more likely to find in a bargain bin than a museum. With that in mind, I was pretty happy to be sent some information […]

Mudkip Mud Sport: Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love. “I settled on an Obsidian Vault where everything I care about is a Markdown file, complete with front matter and organized using Dataview and later Obsidian Bases. But manually managing a database of over 2,000 Markdown files introduced a new kind of friction: hunting down metadata, updating statuses, and tracking […]

Library of Congress: Remembering the Past, Preserving the Present: The America 250 Semiquincentennial Web Archive. “The America 250 Semiquincentennial Web Archive documents how Americans are commemorating and reflecting on the nation’s 250th anniversary. In this interview, Malea Walker discusses how the collection evolved from a project focused on government websites into a broader effort to […]

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.”

University of Washington: GovScape lets you easily search millions of government documents. “At the end of every presidential term, the End of Term Web Archive preserves that administration’s web presence as a vast trove of documents and webpages. The archive began in 2008, with George W. Bush’s second term, and runs up to 2024, collecting images, text, graphs, redacted pages and other […]

Daily Nous: Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online. “What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online only, open-access philosophy journal that published articles between 2011 and 2016, the website of which is no longer accessible. The journal […]

National Library of Finland: Bring The Heat! – Let’s Preserve Sauna Culture To The National Collection. “The National Library of Finland’s thematic web harvest preserves sauna related web materials to the web archive. Harvest focuses on Finnish sauna culture, events and communities in the year 2026. We welcome suggestions for websites and videos. We welcome not only suggestions about […]

Eurogamer: RPG Maker forum users are racing to archive almost 15 years of valuable resources, as game engine maker announces impending move. “Users of the official RPG Maker forums – a vibrant community hub for the famed game engine – are rushing to save years of valuable discussion and resources following the news of its impending shut-down.”

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 […]

BBC: The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games. “Can a company take away something you’ve already paid for? In the world of online video games, some already do. Publishers can decide to switch off a game’s servers, often leaving it effectively unplayable. Stop Killing Games, a growing consumer rights campaign started by American YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024, is challenging […]

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: Fans secretly mapped 24 terabytes of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server, million‑square‑block archive to be shared via torrent — Intense digital archaeology project has taken years, risked player wrath. “One of the largest digital archaeology projects has hit a key milestone: Minecraft devotees have just completed downloading and archiving 24TB of data, preserving a […]

Reuters: The Epstein Files and the risks of forensic image retention. “The Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to experience blowback from how it handled the release of voluminous files from the criminal investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. Overlooked in this debate is the Fourth Amendment question raised by the disclosures themselves: what the Constitution requires when the government makes […]

Kotaku: Failed Online Shooter Won’t Shut Down Because ‘Games Are Art And Deserve To Be Preserved’. “Blindfire was released back in October 2024 with a unique hook: It was an online first-person shooter set in the dark and was built around finding your enemies or remaining out of their sight. Sadly for developer Double Eleven, it never found much of an audience. Now, a year after its last […]

National Library of Finland: Principles for Finnish Web Archive content selection published. “The National Library of Finland is responsible for the diverse and representative preservation of online material. To make this work more transparent, we produced a document entitled Content selection for the Finnish Web Archive, outlining the principles for content selection in thematic and continuous […]

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.”