#digipres — Public Fediverse posts

When the World Cup and Floppies collide. #digipres https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daib8iHuVUk/?igsh=YWp3cDM0Y3NvdGZ0

When the World Cup and Floppies collide. #digipres https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daib8iHuVUk/?igsh=YWp3cDM0Y3NvdGZ0

Has anyone in the cultural heritage domain tried using the Bellingcat Auto Archiver to gather social media? https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/auto-archiver #DigiPres #OpenSourceInvestigation

Has anyone in the cultural heritage domain tried using the Bellingcat Auto Archiver to gather social media? https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/auto-archiver #DigiPres #OpenSourceInvestigation

📢 New #DPClinic!

🌍 How can humanitarian organisations create sustainable digital archives?

Join Flora Chatt (University of Manchester) and the #DPC on 23 July, 14:00–15:00 UTC for an introduction to the new Digital Humanitarian Archives Toolkit.

💬 Explore the toolkit, hear why it was developed, and help shape it with your feedback.

🎟️ Free registration:
https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/815/-/dpclinic-july-digital-humanitarian-archives-toolkit

#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #Archives #Humanitarian #DPClinic #digipres #community #JoinUs

📢 New #DPClinic!

🌍 How can humanitarian organisations create sustainable digital archives?

Join Flora Chatt (University of Manchester) and the #DPC on 23 July, 14:00–15:00 UTC for an introduction to the new Digital Humanitarian Archives Toolkit.

💬 Explore the toolkit, hear why it was developed, and help shape it with your feedback.

🎟️ Free registration:
https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/815/-/dpclinic-july-digital-humanitarian-archives-toolkit

#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #Archives #Humanitarian #DPClinic #digipres #community #JoinUs

📢 New #DPClinic!

🌍 How can humanitarian organisations create sustainable digital archives?

Join Flora Chatt (University of Manchester) and the #DPC on 23 July, 14:00–15:00 UTC for an introduction to the new Digital Humanitarian Archives Toolkit.

💬 Explore the toolkit, hear why it was developed, and help shape it with your feedback.

🎟️ Free registration:
https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/815/-/dpclinic-july-digital-humanitarian-archives-toolkit

#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #Archives #Humanitarian #DPClinic #digipres #community #JoinUs

📢 New #DPClinic!

🌍 How can humanitarian organisations create sustainable digital archives?

Join Flora Chatt (University of Manchester) and the #DPC on 23 July, 14:00–15:00 UTC for an introduction to the new Digital Humanitarian Archives Toolkit.

💬 Explore the toolkit, hear why it was developed, and help shape it with your feedback.

🎟️ Free registration:
https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/815/-/dpclinic-july-digital-humanitarian-archives-toolkit

#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #Archives #Humanitarian #DPClinic #digipres #community #JoinUs

Der neue nestor-Newsletter ist da! In Ausgabe Nr. 47 berichten wir u.a. vom nestor-Praxistag und dem Rosetta-Anwendertreffen und geben einen Ausblick auf die diesjährige iPRES.
Hier könnt ihr den Newsletter lesen:

https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0008-2607081431517.427776478356

#digipres

Der neue nestor-Newsletter ist da! In Ausgabe Nr. 47 berichten wir u.a. vom nestor-Praxistag und dem Rosetta-Anwendertreffen und geben einen Ausblick auf die diesjährige iPRES.
Hier könnt ihr den Newsletter lesen:

https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0008-2607081431517.427776478356

#digipres

*neu in der #zenodo #digipres community*

"Digitalisierung, Langzeitarchivierung und Bereitstellung am Beispiel von Medizinfilmen der ehemaligen IWF gGmbH" - Vortragsfolien der Präsentation auf dem @nestorNetzwerk Praxistag 2026 von Merle Friedrich und Nathalie Contrael im Zusammenhang mit dem @tibhannover Projekt "REMEDY"

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21157916

*neu in der #zenodo #digipres community*

"Digitalisierung, Langzeitarchivierung und Bereitstellung am Beispiel von Medizinfilmen der ehemaligen IWF gGmbH" - Vortragsfolien der Präsentation auf dem @nestorNetzwerk Praxistag 2026 von Merle Friedrich und Nathalie Contrael im Zusammenhang mit dem @tibhannover Projekt "REMEDY"

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21157916

#fileformat Friday! The forgotten CAD software, AutoSketch! #digipres #CAD #DOS #obsolete https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2026/07/10/autosketch/

#fileformat Friday! The forgotten CAD software, AutoSketch! #digipres #CAD #DOS #obsolete https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2026/07/10/autosketch/

@PurpleJillybeans you #NerdSniped me with this, so down the 🐰🕳️ I went… 🤬😩

I was going to suggest that you reach out to the person who wrote the blog post below, but I see in the comments that he’s already been asked to upload the install media to #InternetArchive and has declined

the article might be of interest to you anyway – he lists his install configs & also links to video playlists of installations of lots of (all? 🤔) versions…

…which are on the official VMware YT channel 🤔

ah, OK. it looks like he currently works for #Broadcom, so that’s probably a dead end as far as getting the installers that he has (access to) preserved on IA 😕
 
 
How to install all versions of ESX and ESXi in VM?

https://williamlam.com/2023/04/how-to-install-all-versions-of-esx-and-esxi-in-vm.html
 
 
it’s so frustrating that vendors don’t just make this available as part of preserving their own product history, if nothing else. I sincerely doubt that anyone’s going to be downloading & running ESX 1.5 in production 20+ years later to avoid buying the current version 🤪

what I’d really like to see is legislation that mandates that all no-longer-supported software be made available publicly & released into the commons, but given the US is allergic to regulating just about anything I don’t see that happening any time soon 😩

#DigiPres
#VMware #GSX #ESX #ESXi
#VintageSoftware
#RetroComputing
  

@PurpleJillybeans you #NerdSniped me with this, so down the 🐰🕳️ I went… 🤬😩

I was going to suggest that you reach out to the person who wrote the blog post below, but I see in the comments that he’s already been asked to upload the install media to #InternetArchive and has declined

the article might be of interest to you anyway – he lists his install configs & also links to video playlists of installations of lots of (all? 🤔) versions…

…which are on the official VMware YT channel 🤔

ah, OK. it looks like he currently works for #Broadcom, so that’s probably a dead end as far as getting the installers that he has (access to) preserved on IA 😕
 
 
How to install all versions of ESX and ESXi in VM?

https://williamlam.com/2023/04/how-to-install-all-versions-of-esx-and-esxi-in-vm.html
 
 
it’s so frustrating that vendors don’t just make this available as part of preserving their own product history, if nothing else. I sincerely doubt that anyone’s going to be downloading & running ESX 1.5 in production 20+ years later to avoid buying the current version 🤪

what I’d really like to see is legislation that mandates that all no-longer-supported software be made available publicly & released into the commons, but given the US is allergic to regulating just about anything I don’t see that happening any time soon 😩

#DigiPres
#VMware #GSX #ESX #ESXi
#VintageSoftware
#RetroComputing
  

#DigiPres frens: you've all been amazing before, so I have another request. Anyone able to get their hands on #VMware GSX Server 1.x or ESX Server 1.x? I've been able to find a couple 2.x and 3.x releases, but nothing older.

#RetroComputing

#DigiPres frens: you've all been amazing before, so I have another request. Anyone able to get their hands on #VMware GSX Server 1.x or ESX Server 1.x? I've been able to find a couple 2.x and 3.x releases, but nothing older.

#RetroComputing

UNHCR’s future is at risk – and so is its past
https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/06/29/unhcrs-future-is-at-risk-and-so-is-its-past/ #DataRescue
#DigiPres

UNHCR’s future is at risk – and so is its past
https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/06/29/unhcrs-future-is-at-risk-and-so-is-its-past/ #DataRescue
#DigiPres

*newest addition to the #zenodo #digipres community*

"Template for preparing a cessation plan" - spreadsheet by Jonas Recker @jnsre , Lisa Pegelow, Alexander Schuster and Reiner Maurer containing guiding questions to gather information needed to prepare for custody transfer. The template is a supplement to IJDC article 10.2218/ijdc.v20i1.1091 and has been recently officially endorsed by the CoreTrustSeal Board!

Take a look at the template here:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18920094

*newest addition to the #zenodo #digipres community*

"Template for preparing a cessation plan" - spreadsheet by Jonas Recker @jnsre , Lisa Pegelow, Alexander Schuster and Reiner Maurer containing guiding questions to gather information needed to prepare for custody transfer. The template is a supplement to IJDC article 10.2218/ijdc.v20i1.1091 and has been recently officially endorsed by the CoreTrustSeal Board!

Take a look at the template here:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18920094

Shortened links? Expand them and save the URLs

Shortened links are a digital preservation and web archiving nightmare. You can imagine how they need to work:

1. Create a unique short code for a given (target) URL (like a hash, but far far shorter)
2. Pair the short code with your URL in a database.
3. Create a redirect rule on the URL shortening server from the new source URL to the target URL.
4. Send the shortened link to the caller, e.g. shortURL.com/123badf00d
5. In-perpetuity: continue to pay for your domain; maintain the database; look after redirect rules during server migrations; ensure duplicate short-codes are not created.

A URL-shortening business in five easy steps.

But what does that mean for digital preservation?

Shortened links? Expand them and save the URLs

Shortened links are a digital preservation and web archiving nightmare. You can imagine how they need to work:

Create a unique short code for a given (target) URL (like a hash, but far far shorter)

Pair the short code with your URL in a database.

Create a redirect rule on the URL shortening server from the new source URL to the target URL.

Send the shortened link to the caller, e.g. shortURL.com/123badf00d

In-perpetuity: continue to pay for your domain; maintain the database; look after redirect rules during server migrations; ensure duplicate short-codes are not created.

A URL-shortening business in five easy steps.

But what does that mean for digital preservation?

Shortened links? Expand them and save the URLs

Shortened links are a digital preservation and web archiving nightmare. You can imagine how they need to work:

Create a unique short code for a given (target) URL (like a hash, but far far shorter)

Pair the hash with your URL in a database.

Create a redirect rule on the URL shortening server from the new source URL to the target URL.

Send the shortened link to the caller, e.g. shortURL.com/123badf00d

In-perpetuity: continue to pay for your domain; maintain the database; look after redirect rules during server migrations; ensure duplicate short-codes are not created.

A URL-shortening business in five easy steps.

But what does that mean for digital preservation?

Shortened links? Expand them and save the URLs

Shortened links are a digital preservation and web archiving nightmare. You can imagine how they need to work:

Create a unique short code for a given (target) URL (like a hash, but far far shorter)

Pair the hash with your URL in a database.

Create a redirect rule on the URL shortening server from the new source URL to the target URL.

Send the shortened link to the caller, e.g. shortURL.com/123badf00d

In-perpetuity: continue to pay for your domain; maintain the database; look after redirect rules during server migrations; ensure duplicate short-codes are not created.

A URL-shortening business in five easy steps.

But what does that mean for digital preservation?

Shortened links? Expand them and save the URLs

Shortened links are a digital preservation and web archiving nightmare. You can imagine how they need to work:

Create a unique short code for a given (target) URL (like a hash, but far far shorter)

Pair the hash with your URL in a database.

Create a redirect rule on the URL shortening server from the new source URL to the target URL.

Send the shortened link to the caller, e.g. shortURL.com/123badf00d

In-perpetuity: continue to pay for your domain; maintain the database; look after redirect rules during server migrations; ensure duplicate short-codes are not created.

A URL-shortening business in five easy steps.

But what does that mean for digital preservation?

surprisingly, it appears that no one has imaged the clip-art CD-ROM that came with the book. that work has now been done :)

enjoy some low-effort photographic clip-art courtesy of DK in ISO format:

https://archive.org/details/ew-ocean-clipart

#cdrom #digiPres

surprisingly, it appears that no one has imaged the clip-art CD-ROM that came with the book. that work has now been done :)

enjoy some low-effort photographic clip-art courtesy of DK in ISO format:

https://archive.org/details/ew-ocean-clipart

#cdrom #digiPres

RT @senspublic -
🏛️ Dans « Virtuel Mucem », Alexandre Faye et collaborateur·ice·s retracent les enjeux liés à la préservation et remédiation d'un patrimoine numérique.

https://sens-public.org/articles/1794/

#archives #mucem #veille #patrimoinenumerique #digipres

Vale Carl Wilson, Digital Preservation’s Indie Rockstar

Just a quick note wishing Carl peace wherever he is now and to send my best wishes to Becky and his family, and of course his colleagues at the OPF and everyone else who worked closely with him.

Can I remember where I first met Carl? He’s just always been around hasn’t he?

I suspect it was the AQuA hack-a-thon at the British Library in 2011. Carl was maybe working on an image duplication

Vale Carl Wilson, Digital Preservation’s Indie Rockstar

Just a quick note wishing Carl peace wherever he is now and to send my best wishes to Becky and his family, and of course his colleagues at the OPF and everyone else who worked closely with him.

Can I remember where I first met Carl? He’s just always been around hasn’t he?

I suspect it was the AQuA hack-a-thon at the British Library in 2011. Carl was maybe working on an image duplication

since i appreciate that 99.999% of the known universe has never heard of Dotto's Data Café - a tech/computing tv show produced/aired in the 90s and 2000s in canada, here is one mid-1990s episode digitized from an old vhs tape.

think Computer Chronicles on a $100 an episode budget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czv9grI8GMo

#canada #history #digiPres #macintosh #vintageApple

since i appreciate that 99.999% of the known universe has never heard of Dotto's Data Café - a tech/computing tv show produced/aired in the 90s and 2000s in canada, here is one mid-1990s episode digitized from an old vhs tape.

think Computer Chronicles on a $100 an episode budget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czv9grI8GMo

#canada #history #digiPres #macintosh #vintageApple

my gods. i accidentally stumbled upon the original url from the show watching a vhs rip of an early episode, and wbm had a snapshot from 1996!

https://web.archive.org/web/19961102161219/http://www.dotto.istar.ca/

this is an extremely obscure piece of canadian history: Dotto's Data Café. it was a computer/internet tech show from the 1990s hosted by Steve Dotto that aired on canadian networks. (i doubt it was rebroadcasted anywhere else, but if it made it to your country, please let me know!)

#canada #digiPres #webPreservation #history

my gods. i accidentally stumbled upon the original url from the show watching a vhs rip of an early episode, and wbm had a snapshot from 1996!

https://web.archive.org/web/19961102161219/http://www.dotto.istar.ca/

this is an extremely obscure piece of canadian history: Dotto's Data Café. it was a computer/internet tech show from the 1990s hosted by Steve Dotto that aired on canadian networks. (i doubt it was rebroadcasted anywhere else, but if it made it to your country, please let me know!)

#canada #digiPres #webPreservation #history

the best part of building an online encyclopedia for multimedia and educational games is acquiring the physical media. after 10+ years of hunting, finally received an affordable copy of Oceans - arguably one of the best educational multimedia experiences MS’s edutainment division produced.

it came with some adorable stickers that have the best utopian scholastic styling and i can’t wait to scan it all in for the https://cd-rom.ca encartapedia!

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #multimedia #cdrom #utopianScholastic #education

the best part of building an online encyclopedia for multimedia and educational games is acquiring the physical media. after 10+ years of hunting, finally received an affordable copy of Oceans - arguably one of the best educational multimedia experiences MS’s edutainment division produced.

it came with some adorable stickers that have the best utopian scholastic styling and i can’t wait to scan it all in for the https://cd-rom.ca encartapedia!

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #multimedia #cdrom #utopianScholastic #education

OK #digipres folks, one more question:

We generally perform virus scan before ingesting files. But I never heard a story about viruses found in submitted files. Any testimony or research done on that topic?

OK #digipres folks, one more question:

We generally perform virus scan before ingesting files. But I never heard a story about viruses found in submitted files. Any testimony or research done on that topic?

Beim nestor-Praxistag am 11. Juni 2026 ging es diemal um die Frage: Formate in Bewegung - Wie lassen sich AV-Objekte digital erhalten?

Die Präsentationen zu den meisten Vorträgen sind jetzt online verfügbar: https://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Webs/nestor/DE/Veranstaltungen_und_Termine/praxistag/2026praxistag.html

#digipres

Beim nestor-Praxistag am 11. Juni 2026 ging es diemal um die Frage: Formate in Bewegung - Wie lassen sich AV-Objekte digital erhalten?

Die Präsentationen zu den meisten Vorträgen sind jetzt online verfügbar: https://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Webs/nestor/DE/Veranstaltungen_und_Termine/praxistag/2026praxistag.html

#digipres

RE: https://digipres.club/@anj/116810282284073233

This is terribly bad news for the #digipres community. It was great to work with Carl, great to talk with him at iPRES.

We'll be deeply missing Carl.

Many thoughts to all his relatives and colleagues.

RE: https://digipres.club/@anj/116810282284073233

This is terribly bad news for the #digipres community. It was great to work with Carl, great to talk with him at iPRES.

We'll be deeply missing Carl.

Many thoughts to all his relatives and colleagues.

Yesterday evening the OPF shared the incredibly sad news that Carl Wilson passed away this past weekend. You can find their statement here: https://openpreservation.org/remembering-carl-wilson/. I was really so sad to hear this news. This is such a loss for his family, friends, and colleagues, as well as for the larger #digipres community. We've all benefited from projects that Carl worked on or lead. Rest in peace, Carl, and thanks for everything!

Yesterday evening the OPF shared the incredibly sad news that Carl Wilson passed away this past weekend. You can find their statement here: https://openpreservation.org/remembering-carl-wilson/. I was really so sad to hear this news. This is such a loss for his family, friends, and colleagues, as well as for the larger #digipres community. We've all benefited from projects that Carl worked on or lead. Rest in peace, Carl, and thanks for everything!

RE: https://mamot.fr/@Luk/116805182918749093

In Rennes, #France, one of the main datacenters is warning its customers that their data is at risk due to the extreme heat. Customers are invited to come to the facility and shut down the machines themselves.

kinda #digipres -related

RE: https://mamot.fr/@Luk/116805182918749093

In Rennes, #France, one of the main datacenters is warning its customers that their data is at risk due to the extreme heat. Customers are invited to come to the facility and shut down the machines themselves.

kinda #digipres -related

🎉 New and freely available today: the Preserving E-Theses Resource Pack!

Created by the DPC as part of the Arcadia and Research England-funded Open Book Futures project, the Pack offers practical guidance, videos, and resources to help universities and doctoral students prepare e-theses for long-term access and reuse.

Read more and access the Pack 👉 https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/807/-/dpclinic-june-future-proofing-phd-theses-showcasing-the-new-preserving-e-theses-resource-pack

#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #digipres #community #eThesis #preservation #OpenBookFutures #PhD #Copim

🎉 New and freely available today: the Preserving E-Theses Resource Pack!

Created by the DPC as part of the Arcadia and Research England-funded Open Book Futures project, the Pack offers practical guidance, videos, and resources to help universities and doctoral students prepare e-theses for long-term access and reuse.

Read more and access the Pack 👉 https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/807/-/dpclinic-june-future-proofing-phd-theses-showcasing-the-new-preserving-e-theses-resource-pack

#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #digipres #community #eThesis #preservation #OpenBookFutures #PhD #Copim