#borndigitalarchiving — Public Fediverse posts
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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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/national-library-of-finland-principles-for-finnish-web-archive-content-selection-published/ -
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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/national-library-of-finland-principles-for-finnish-web-archive-content-selection-published/ -
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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/national-library-of-finland-principles-for-finnish-web-archive-content-selection-published/ -
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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/national-library-of-finland-principles-for-finnish-web-archive-content-selection-published/ -
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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/national-library-of-finland-principles-for-finnish-web-archive-content-selection-published/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
Engadget: The Stop Killing Games campaign will set up NGOs in the EU and US. “In a YouTube video, the campaign’s creator, Ross Scott, explained that organizers are planning to establish two non-governmental organizations, one for the European Union and another for the US. According to Scott, these NGOs would allow for ‘long-term counter lobbying’ when publishers end support for certain video […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/engadget-the-stop-killing-games-campaign-will-set-up-ngos-in-the-eu-and-us/ -
Engadget: The Stop Killing Games campaign will set up NGOs in the EU and US. “In a YouTube video, the campaign’s creator, Ross Scott, explained that organizers are planning to establish two non-governmental organizations, one for the European Union and another for the US. According to Scott, these NGOs would allow for ‘long-term counter lobbying’ when publishers end support for certain video […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/engadget-the-stop-killing-games-campaign-will-set-up-ngos-in-the-eu-and-us/ -
Engadget: The Stop Killing Games campaign will set up NGOs in the EU and US. “In a YouTube video, the campaign’s creator, Ross Scott, explained that organizers are planning to establish two non-governmental organizations, one for the European Union and another for the US. According to Scott, these NGOs would allow for ‘long-term counter lobbying’ when publishers end support for certain video […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/engadget-the-stop-killing-games-campaign-will-set-up-ngos-in-the-eu-and-us/ -
Engadget: The Stop Killing Games campaign will set up NGOs in the EU and US. “In a YouTube video, the campaign’s creator, Ross Scott, explained that organizers are planning to establish two non-governmental organizations, one for the European Union and another for the US. According to Scott, these NGOs would allow for ‘long-term counter lobbying’ when publishers end support for certain video […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/engadget-the-stop-killing-games-campaign-will-set-up-ngos-in-the-eu-and-us/ -
Found while I was looking for something else: Delisted Games Database – Updated Official Tracker of Removed Games. “Every year, hundreds of video games vanish from digital storefronts erased by licensing disputes, server shutdowns, or platform removals. For players, that means lost purchases and broken collections. For preservationists, it’s a cultural crisis: entire chapters of gaming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/23/delisted-games-database/ -
Found while I was looking for something else: Delisted Games Database – Updated Official Tracker of Removed Games. “Every year, hundreds of video games vanish from digital storefronts erased by licensing disputes, server shutdowns, or platform removals. For players, that means lost purchases and broken collections. For preservationists, it’s a cultural crisis: entire chapters of gaming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/23/delisted-games-database/ -
Found while I was looking for something else: Delisted Games Database – Updated Official Tracker of Removed Games. “Every year, hundreds of video games vanish from digital storefronts erased by licensing disputes, server shutdowns, or platform removals. For players, that means lost purchases and broken collections. For preservationists, it’s a cultural crisis: entire chapters of gaming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/23/delisted-games-database/ -
Found while I was looking for something else: Delisted Games Database – Updated Official Tracker of Removed Games. “Every year, hundreds of video games vanish from digital storefronts erased by licensing disputes, server shutdowns, or platform removals. For players, that means lost purchases and broken collections. For preservationists, it’s a cultural crisis: entire chapters of gaming […]
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Popular Science: The Internet Archive records its 1 trillionth website. “The Internet Archive—one of cyberspace’s most essential library projects—has achieved a feat that’s hard to even conceptualize. After nearly 30 years of painstaking work, the nonprofit has preserved its trillionth webpage.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/23/popular-science-the-internet-archive-records-its-1-trillionth-website/ -
Popular Science: The Internet Archive records its 1 trillionth website. “The Internet Archive—one of cyberspace’s most essential library projects—has achieved a feat that’s hard to even conceptualize. After nearly 30 years of painstaking work, the nonprofit has preserved its trillionth webpage.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/23/popular-science-the-internet-archive-records-its-1-trillionth-website/ -
Popular Science: The Internet Archive records its 1 trillionth website. “The Internet Archive—one of cyberspace’s most essential library projects—has achieved a feat that’s hard to even conceptualize. After nearly 30 years of painstaking work, the nonprofit has preserved its trillionth webpage.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/23/popular-science-the-internet-archive-records-its-1-trillionth-website/ -
Popular Science: The Internet Archive records its 1 trillionth website. “The Internet Archive—one of cyberspace’s most essential library projects—has achieved a feat that’s hard to even conceptualize. After nearly 30 years of painstaking work, the nonprofit has preserved its trillionth webpage.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/23/popular-science-the-internet-archive-records-its-1-trillionth-website/ -
Internet Archive Blog: Internet Archive and Partners Select Local Newsrooms from Across the US to Participate in the Today’s News for Tomorrow Program. “With support from Press Forward, Today’s News for Tomorrow will bring together news organizations and memory institutions to address the urgent challenge of local news preservation and perpetual access.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/13/internet-archive-blog-internet-archive-and-partners-select-local-newsrooms-from-across-the-us-to-participate-in-the-todays-news-for-tomorrow-program/ -
Internet Archive Blog: Internet Archive and Partners Select Local Newsrooms from Across the US to Participate in the Today’s News for Tomorrow Program. “With support from Press Forward, Today’s News for Tomorrow will bring together news organizations and memory institutions to address the urgent challenge of local news preservation and perpetual access.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/13/internet-archive-blog-internet-archive-and-partners-select-local-newsrooms-from-across-the-us-to-participate-in-the-todays-news-for-tomorrow-program/ -
Internet Archive Blog: Internet Archive and Partners Select Local Newsrooms from Across the US to Participate in the Today’s News for Tomorrow Program. “With support from Press Forward, Today’s News for Tomorrow will bring together news organizations and memory institutions to address the urgent challenge of local news preservation and perpetual access.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/13/internet-archive-blog-internet-archive-and-partners-select-local-newsrooms-from-across-the-us-to-participate-in-the-todays-news-for-tomorrow-program/ -
Internet Archive Blog: Internet Archive and Partners Select Local Newsrooms from Across the US to Participate in the Today’s News for Tomorrow Program. “With support from Press Forward, Today’s News for Tomorrow will bring together news organizations and memory institutions to address the urgent challenge of local news preservation and perpetual access.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/13/internet-archive-blog-internet-archive-and-partners-select-local-newsrooms-from-across-the-us-to-participate-in-the-todays-news-for-tomorrow-program/ -
Internet Archive Blog: Internet Archive and Partners Select Local Newsrooms from Across the US to Participate in the Today’s News for Tomorrow Program. “With support from Press Forward, Today’s News for Tomorrow will bring together news organizations and memory institutions to address the urgent challenge of local news preservation and perpetual access.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/13/internet-archive-blog-internet-archive-and-partners-select-local-newsrooms-from-across-the-us-to-participate-in-the-todays-news-for-tomorrow-program/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
NiemanLab: News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns. “When The Guardian took a look at who was trying to extract its content, access logs revealed that the Internet Archive was a frequent crawler, said Robert Hahn, head of business affairs and licensing. The publisher decided to limit the Internet Archive’s access to published articles, minimizing the chance […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/niemanlab-news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/ -
NiemanLab: News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns. “When The Guardian took a look at who was trying to extract its content, access logs revealed that the Internet Archive was a frequent crawler, said Robert Hahn, head of business affairs and licensing. The publisher decided to limit the Internet Archive’s access to published articles, minimizing the chance […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/niemanlab-news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/ -
NiemanLab: News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns. “When The Guardian took a look at who was trying to extract its content, access logs revealed that the Internet Archive was a frequent crawler, said Robert Hahn, head of business affairs and licensing. The publisher decided to limit the Internet Archive’s access to published articles, minimizing the chance […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/niemanlab-news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/ -
NiemanLab: News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns. “When The Guardian took a look at who was trying to extract its content, access logs revealed that the Internet Archive was a frequent crawler, said Robert Hahn, head of business affairs and licensing. The publisher decided to limit the Internet Archive’s access to published articles, minimizing the chance […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/niemanlab-news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/ -
NiemanLab: News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns. “When The Guardian took a look at who was trying to extract its content, access logs revealed that the Internet Archive was a frequent crawler, said Robert Hahn, head of business affairs and licensing. The publisher decided to limit the Internet Archive’s access to published articles, minimizing the chance […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/niemanlab-news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/ -
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/