#digital-preservation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digital-preservation, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://digipres.club/@dpc_chat/117081727419922043
That's right! If you're in the Asia-Pacific timezone, @robinwright and I will be your co-hosts. If you're wondering what #DigiPres is all about, why not sign up and then tune in for an hour a day during #iPRES2026?
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RE: https://digipres.club/@dpc_chat/117081727419922043
That's right! If you're in the Asia-Pacific timezone, @robinwright and I will be your co-hosts. If you're wondering what #DigiPres is all about, why not sign up and then tune in for an hour a day during #iPRES2026?
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📻 iPRES Radio is back for 2026 - and (free) registration is now open!
Not travelling to Copenhagen for the #iPRES2026 conference? You can still be part of the #digitalpreservation conversation.
From 22–25 September, iPRES Radio will bring #digipres colleagues together online to catch up on conference highlights, hear from Copenhagen and exchange reflections with peers around the world.
👉 Sign up on the DPC website to get your iPRES Radio joining details: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/819/-/ipres-radio-2026
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📻 iPRES Radio is back for 2026 - and (free) registration is now open!
Not travelling to Copenhagen for the #iPRES2026 conference? You can still be part of the #digitalpreservation conversation.
From 22–25 September, iPRES Radio will bring #digipres colleagues together online to catch up on conference highlights, hear from Copenhagen and exchange reflections with peers around the world.
👉 Sign up on the DPC website to get your iPRES Radio joining details: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/819/-/ipres-radio-2026
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On 15 February 2013, Posterous published a post announcing it would shut down on April 30.
Here is that post, on my blog, in 2026 — text, dates and links intact, pulled out of the Internet Archive's crawls of a feed that stopped being served thirteen years ago.
The platform is gone. Its goodbye note isn't.
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Revisiting the Slowmover Archive
The Archaelogy of a Blog
I have begun a long-overdue journey through the Slowmover archives.
#356AM #Blogging #CreativeProcess #DigitalPreservation #Editing #LiteraryReflection #memory #OldWritings #OnlinePublishing #PersonalArchives #Readership #RevisitingThePast #Slowmover #WordPress #WordPressTags #Writing
Some of the earliest posts date back to 2008, which means I am not simply editing a website. I am revisiting nearly two decades of thought, faith, frustration, creativity, questions, poems, prayers, half-formed ideas, and occasional flashes of clarity.
The practical work is considerable. Old posts must be converted into the current block format. Broken links need to be repaired or removed. Categories and tags have multiplied, wandered off, or lost their usefulness. Images may be missing. Formatting has shifted. Publication information needs to be updated. Some pieces require only a little cleaning, while others invite substantial editing, correction, or expansion. A few may no longer need to remain at all.
There are sentences I would not write in the same way today. There are opinions I would express with more care, confidence, humility, or nuance. There are unfinished thoughts that still seem to be waiting for me. Some posts feel surprisingly current. Others belong unmistakably to the particular time in which they were written.
That, however, is part of their value.
A blog archive is not a polished autobiography. It is closer to an archaeological site. Layers of language remain where they were first deposited. Old concerns lie beside forgotten enthusiasms. There are fragments of previous selves: the person I was, the person I hoped to become, and the person who could not yet imagine where life would lead.
Editing these writings is, therefore, not simply an attempt to make them look better. It is an act of conversation with the past.
Sometimes, the earlier writer embarrasses me. Sometimes, he surprises me. Occasionally, I envy his urgency. At other times, I want to sit beside him and tell him that certain things will be all right, while other things will prove more complicated than he knows.
I do not intend to erase that earlier voice completely. Revision can easily become a kind of historical dishonesty, making it appear that we always possessed the wisdom we acquired only later. I want to preserve something of each post’s original moment while making the writing clearer, more readable, and more useful to those who may encounter it now.
Some posts will be corrected.
Some will be expanded.
Some will be combined with related pieces.
Some will receive new introductions or concluding reflections.
Some may be republished so that writings buried beneath years of newer material can find readers again.
And some will quietly disappear.
Whenever possible, these earlier writings will be returned to the calendar on the day they were originally written. When the exact date is uncertain or another date seems more appropriate, I will choose one that best reflects the piece’s history. Most will appear at 3:56 a.m., the time I entered this world as a baby.
That hour has become a kind of personal timestamp.
Each restored post will be given another beginning at the time of my own beginning—a small act of literary rebirth. Words written years ago will reenter the world at 3:56 in the morning, while most readers are asleep and the day itself has barely begun.
The choice is partly sentimental, partly symbolic, and perhaps a little strange. That seems appropriate for Slowmover.
The work raises an interesting question: When is a piece of writing finished?
Publication once seemed like an ending. I wrote something, pressed “publish,” and sent it into the world. Yet digital writing rarely stays fixed. Links decay. Platforms change. Images vanish. Language develops. The writer changes. The readers change. The world surrounding the words becomes a different world.
Perhaps a blog is not a shelf of completed objects but a living garden. Some plants need pruning. Some need transplanting. Some have gone to seed and unexpectedly produced something new. Some were planted in poor soil. Some have become tangled together. A few stubborn shoots continue to grow despite years of neglect.
Returning to Slowmover has also reminded me how much writing has accumulated here. The sheer number of posts makes the project daunting, but it also feels like a gift. I have spent years wondering whether I had written enough, accomplished enough, or found enough readers. The archive offers another answer: the words are here. They have been gathering quietly.
Readership matters to me. I would like these writings to be found, read, shared, and perhaps remembered. Updating titles, tags, categories, excerpts, publication details, images, and formatting is partly an effort to make that possible.
But readership is not only a matter of numbers. Sometimes, one person discovering the right piece at the right moment is enough to justify its continued existence.
There is also pleasure in the revisiting. Editing the archive is not merely maintenance. It is an opportunity to encounter forgotten ideas, recover abandoned paths, and recognize themes that I could not see while I was living and writing them. A post that once appeared isolated may now reveal itself as part of a much longer conversation.
This process will take time. That seems appropriate for a place called Slowmover.
I will move through the archive gradually, post by post, repairing what is broken, clearing away what obscures, and listening for what still has something to say.
The past cannot be rewritten entirely.
But it can be reread.
It can be tended.
It can be awakened in the darkness before dawn.
And sometimes, at 3:56 in the morning, it can enter the world again. -
Revisiting the Slowmover Archive
The Archaelogy of a Blog
I have begun a long-overdue journey through the Slowmover archives.
#356AM #Blogging #CreativeProcess #DigitalPreservation #Editing #LiteraryReflection #memory #OldWritings #OnlinePublishing #PersonalArchives #Readership #RevisitingThePast #Slowmover #WordPress #WordPressTags #Writing
Some of the earliest posts date back to 2008, which means I am not simply editing a website. I am revisiting nearly two decades of thought, faith, frustration, creativity, questions, poems, prayers, half-formed ideas, and occasional flashes of clarity.
The practical work is considerable. Old posts must be converted into the current block format. Broken links need to be repaired or removed. Categories and tags have multiplied, wandered off, or lost their usefulness. Images may be missing. Formatting has shifted. Publication information needs to be updated. Some pieces require only a little cleaning, while others invite substantial editing, correction, or expansion. A few may no longer need to remain at all.
There are sentences I would not write in the same way today. There are opinions I would express with more care, confidence, humility, or nuance. There are unfinished thoughts that still seem to be waiting for me. Some posts feel surprisingly current. Others belong unmistakably to the particular time in which they were written.
That, however, is part of their value.
A blog archive is not a polished autobiography. It is closer to an archaeological site. Layers of language remain where they were first deposited. Old concerns lie beside forgotten enthusiasms. There are fragments of previous selves: the person I was, the person I hoped to become, and the person who could not yet imagine where life would lead.
Editing these writings is, therefore, not simply an attempt to make them look better. It is an act of conversation with the past.
Sometimes, the earlier writer embarrasses me. Sometimes, he surprises me. Occasionally, I envy his urgency. At other times, I want to sit beside him and tell him that certain things will be all right, while other things will prove more complicated than he knows.
I do not intend to erase that earlier voice completely. Revision can easily become a kind of historical dishonesty, making it appear that we always possessed the wisdom we acquired only later. I want to preserve something of each post’s original moment while making the writing clearer, more readable, and more useful to those who may encounter it now.
Some posts will be corrected.
Some will be expanded.
Some will be combined with related pieces.
Some will receive new introductions or concluding reflections.
Some may be republished so that writings buried beneath years of newer material can find readers again.
And some will quietly disappear.
Whenever possible, these earlier writings will be returned to the calendar on the day they were originally written. When the exact date is uncertain or another date seems more appropriate, I will choose one that best reflects the piece’s history. Most will appear at 3:56 a.m., the time I entered this world as a baby.
That hour has become a kind of personal timestamp.
Each restored post will be given another beginning at the time of my own beginning—a small act of literary rebirth. Words written years ago will reenter the world at 3:56 in the morning, while most readers are asleep and the day itself has barely begun.
The choice is partly sentimental, partly symbolic, and perhaps a little strange. That seems appropriate for Slowmover.
The work raises an interesting question: When is a piece of writing finished?
Publication once seemed like an ending. I wrote something, pressed “publish,” and sent it into the world. Yet digital writing rarely stays fixed. Links decay. Platforms change. Images vanish. Language develops. The writer changes. The readers change. The world surrounding the words becomes a different world.
Perhaps a blog is not a shelf of completed objects but a living garden. Some plants need pruning. Some need transplanting. Some have gone to seed and unexpectedly produced something new. Some were planted in poor soil. Some have become tangled together. A few stubborn shoots continue to grow despite years of neglect.
Returning to Slowmover has also reminded me how much writing has accumulated here. The sheer number of posts makes the project daunting, but it also feels like a gift. I have spent years wondering whether I had written enough, accomplished enough, or found enough readers. The archive offers another answer: the words are here. They have been gathering quietly.
Readership matters to me. I would like these writings to be found, read, shared, and perhaps remembered. Updating titles, tags, categories, excerpts, publication details, images, and formatting is partly an effort to make that possible.
But readership is not only a matter of numbers. Sometimes, one person discovering the right piece at the right moment is enough to justify its continued existence.
There is also pleasure in the revisiting. Editing the archive is not merely maintenance. It is an opportunity to encounter forgotten ideas, recover abandoned paths, and recognize themes that I could not see while I was living and writing them. A post that once appeared isolated may now reveal itself as part of a much longer conversation.
This process will take time. That seems appropriate for a place called Slowmover.
I will move through the archive gradually, post by post, repairing what is broken, clearing away what obscures, and listening for what still has something to say.
The past cannot be rewritten entirely.
But it can be reread.
It can be tended.
It can be awakened in the darkness before dawn.
And sometimes, at 3:56 in the morning, it can enter the world again. -
📚🤖 Oh, the irony! AI companies are saving books by... *checks notes*... destroying them? Apparently, preserving knowledge now involves scanning and shredding. Who needs rare editions when you can have digital dust? 🗑️📖
https://dallasexpress.com/national/the-vanishing-page-ai-firms-scan-then-destroy-rare-book-editions/ #AIbooks #Irony #DigitalPreservation #KnowledgeDestruction #RareEditions #HackerNews #ngated -
📚🤖 Oh, the irony! AI companies are saving books by... *checks notes*... destroying them? Apparently, preserving knowledge now involves scanning and shredding. Who needs rare editions when you can have digital dust? 🗑️📖
https://dallasexpress.com/national/the-vanishing-page-ai-firms-scan-then-destroy-rare-book-editions/ #AIbooks #Irony #DigitalPreservation #KnowledgeDestruction #RareEditions #HackerNews #ngated -
The Vanishing Page: AI Firms Scan Then Destroy Rare Book Editions
https://dallasexpress.com/national/the-vanishing-page-ai-firms-scan-then-destroy-rare-book-editions/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095763
#HackerNews #AI #RareBooks #DigitalPreservation #BookScanning #TechEthics #LiteratureConservation
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The Vanishing Page: AI Firms Scan Then Destroy Rare Book Editions
https://dallasexpress.com/national/the-vanishing-page-ai-firms-scan-then-destroy-rare-book-editions/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095763
#HackerNews #AI #RareBooks #DigitalPreservation #BookScanning #TechEthics #LiteratureConservation
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Potrzebuję pomocy od starych graczy, jak ja!
Polska, 1998.
Supermarket Marko.
Wielki kosz z płytami #CD pełnymi #shareware . Biorę Gry Labiryntowe i Gry Sieciowe od Albionu. Gram bez wytchnienia.
20 lat później, giną mi Sieciowe. Kto ma? Kto pomoże zgrać i zachować kawałek historii?KTO MA SIECIOWE???
Co z nimi zrobię? To: https://archive.org/details/zreczno2
#digitalhoarder #hoarding #archive #DigitalPreservation #history
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Potrzebuję pomocy od starych graczy, jak ja!
Polska, 1998.
Supermarket Marko.
Wielki kosz z płytami #CD pełnymi #shareware . Biorę Gry Labiryntowe i Gry Sieciowe od Albionu. Gram bez wytchnienia.
20 lat później, giną mi Sieciowe. Kto ma? Kto pomoże zgrać i zachować kawałek historii?KTO MA SIECIOWE???
Co z nimi zrobię? To: https://archive.org/details/zreczno2
#digitalhoarder #hoarding #archive #DigitalPreservation #history
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News from arXiv…
I saw recently an announcement that arXiv – which recently became a standalone nonprofit organization – now hosts more than three million articles. That message took me to a post on the arXiv blog from which I learnt that said blog is on WordPress which makes it possible to include embedded links from this WordPress blog, i.e.:
https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/07/09/arxiv-now-hosts-over-3-million-articles/?page_id=1854
This in turn reminded me to answer a question that people sometimes ask about the Open Journal of Astrophysics, namely what would happen if arXiv went offline? Since OJAp is an arXiv-overlay journal this would appear to be fatal. We have been keeping duplicates of all the papers we publish, and associated metadata, in a local repository so that if arXiv went down we could reistate them fairly quickly. All we would need to do is alter the overlay to point to a different web address: there is no reason at all why the overlay idea can’t be adapted to other forms of repository.
Recently, however, arXiv decided to do a similar thing for all its articles. Here is a blog post about it:
I blogged about the first stage of this here.
Anyway, if you use arXiv at all – which will include most astrophysicists – then it would be a good idea to follow the arXiv blog as there is very important news on it, including information about alterations to the schedule of announcements.
#arXiv #arXivBlog #arXivMirrors #digitalPreservation #OpenAccess #OpenJournalOfAstrophysics #TheOpenJournalOfAstrophysics -
NASA has been quietly taking Shuttle documentation offline. The Columbia STS-107 FMEA/CIL files aren't even on the Wayback Machine.
Same pattern as Apollo: the F-1 blueprints survive, the people who knew how to build it don't.
11 years at KSC on the Main Propulsion System, and I kept copies. 2,004 documents, images and launch voice tapes on the Internet Archive, and at Zenodo with a DOI and per-file checksums:
gandalfddi.github.io/shuttle.html#SpaceShuttle #NASA #SpaceHistory #DigitalPreservation #Space
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NASA has been quietly taking Shuttle documentation offline. The Columbia STS-107 FMEA/CIL files aren't even on the Wayback Machine.
Same pattern as Apollo: the F-1 blueprints survive, the people who knew how to build it don't.
11 years at KSC on the Main Propulsion System, and I kept copies. 2,004 documents, images and launch voice tapes on the Internet Archive, and at Zenodo with a DOI and per-file checksums:
gandalfddi.github.io/shuttle.html#SpaceShuttle #NASA #SpaceHistory #DigitalPreservation #Space
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29 billion unique source files. 438 million projects. One open archive. https://archive.softwareheritage.org
#OpenSource #SoftwareHeritage #DigitalPreservation #PublicCode -
29 billion unique source files. 438 million projects. One open archive. https://archive.softwareheritage.org
#OpenSource #SoftwareHeritage #DigitalPreservation #PublicCode -
Nu ik al weer een tijdje bezig ben met een aanbeveling uit mijn eigen doctoraalscriptie (boek)geschiedenis van bijna veertig jaar geleden, vond ik het tijd om die ongepubliceerde scriptie online ter beschikking te stellen. Maar wat een (digital preservation) avontuur was dat.
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Nu ik al weer een tijdje bezig ben met een aanbeveling uit mijn eigen doctoraalscriptie (boek)geschiedenis van bijna veertig jaar geleden, vond ik het tijd om die ongepubliceerde scriptie online ter beschikking te stellen. Maar wat een (digital preservation) avontuur was dat.
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Declarative all the way down: Building PRONOM signatures with JSONID
by @beet_keeperPRONOM signatures are a form of declarative language, you describe the anticipated behavior in PRONOM’s regular expression syntax and tools like DROID, FIDO, and Siegfried will interpret those instructions and attempt to match them against different files to return a file format identification.
Normally, you will write PRONOM signatures by hand but doing so for file formats based on other file format building blocks can lead to inconsistencies. Bertrand Caron previously also recognized this in the XML formats that are described with PRONOM signatures on Wikidata.
XML can use single quotes ‘ (hex: 0x27) and double quotes ” (hex: 0x22) for attribute data, and so, do we make a PRONOM signature with multiple sequences anticipating the use of either?
The answer is more often than not likely to be yes, because the appearance of these values are often helpful for identifying boundaries for strings that we know must exist.
But the more file formats that we need to add to PRONOM that are based on foundational formats like XML, or JSON, or similar, the more inconsistencies will creep in, such as sequences that are looking specifically for one byte sequence over another.
The issue extends further if file formats allow data to appear at the beginning of file, or we need to account for a variable amount of white-space, or we want to start thinking about multi-byte character encoding.
We can, and in the XML issue described by myself and Caron, I think the recommendation is very much to create editorial standards for signatures for file formats based on other baseline, structured data formats like XML, JSON, YAML, and so on.
And standards are well and good, but what if tooling could help us?
For JSON this is exactly what I have tried to do in JSONID.
What does this feature look like? And what does it get us? Let’s take a look.
#declarativeProgramming #digipres #DigitalPreservation #DROID #FIDO #FileFormatIdentification #FileFormats #JSON #jsonid #JSONL #NTTW #NTTW9 #PRONOM #RDM #ResearchData #siegfried #StructuredData #structuredText #TOML #YAML -
Declarative all the way down: Building PRONOM signatures with JSONID
by @beet_keeperPRONOM signatures are a form of declarative language, you describe the anticipated behavior in PRONOM’s regular expression syntax and tools like DROID, FIDO, and Siegfried will interpret those instructions and attempt to match them against different files to return a file format identification.
Normally, you will write PRONOM signatures by hand but doing so for file formats based on other file format building blocks can lead to inconsistencies. Bertrand Caron previously also recognized this in the XML formats that are described with PRONOM signatures on Wikidata.
XML can use single quotes ‘ (hex: 0x27) and double quotes ” (hex: 0x22) for attribute data, and so, do we make a PRONOM signature with multiple sequences anticipating the use of either?
The answer is more often than not likely to be yes, because the appearance of these values are often helpful for identifying boundaries for strings that we know must exist.
But the more file formats that we need to add to PRONOM that are based on foundational formats like XML, or JSON, or similar, the more inconsistencies will creep in, such as sequences that are looking specifically for one byte sequence over another.
The issue extends further if file formats allow data to appear at the beginning of file, or we need to account for a variable amount of white-space, or we want to start thinking about multi-byte character encoding.
We can, and in the XML issue described by myself and Caron, I think the recommendation is very much to create editorial standards for signatures for file formats based on other baseline, structured data formats like XML, JSON, YAML, and so on.
And standards are well and good, but what if tooling could help us?
For JSON this is exactly what I have tried to do in JSONID.
What does this feature look like? And what does it get us? Let’s take a look.
#declarativeProgramming #digipres #DigitalPreservation #DROID #FIDO #FileFormatIdentification #FileFormats #JSON #jsonid #JSONL #NTTW #NTTW9 #PRONOM #RDM #ResearchData #siegfried #StructuredData #structuredText #TOML #YAML -
inFAMOUS 2's UGC shutdown on August 31 means player-created missions disappear forever. The campaign stays, but digital ownership faces a harsh reality. What does this mean for game preservation? https://mediaboxent.com/infamous-2-ugc-shutdown.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
Published with MBX Flow → https://mbxflow.com
#gaming #digitalpreservation #infamous2 #gamepreservation #ugc #MBXFlow
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inFAMOUS 2's UGC shutdown on August 31 means player-created missions disappear forever. The campaign stays, but digital ownership faces a harsh reality. What does this mean for game preservation? https://mediaboxent.com/infamous-2-ugc-shutdown.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
Published with MBX Flow → https://mbxflow.com
#gaming #digitalpreservation #infamous2 #gamepreservation #ugc #MBXFlow
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Step inside San Francisco's iconic Grace Cathedral like never before – all from your screen! ⛪
Vincent Woo and team captured this stunning historic landmark using cutting-edge Gaussian splatting technology, rendered smoothly on PlayCanvas. It is digital preservation at its absolute finest. 🖥️✨
https://vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/
#GaussianSplatting #3DGraphics #DigitalPreservation #PlayCanvas #WebGL
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"Rescued data has to be collected, and then it has to go somewhere; it has to be validated, described, made findable, and kept accessible."
The systems that do that work are either assumed to exist… or invisible in the funding picture entirely.
Our analysis of 87+ data resilience projects: https://investinopen.org/blog/data-resilience-funding-landscape/
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"Rescued data has to be collected, and then it has to go somewhere; it has to be validated, described, made findable, and kept accessible."
The systems that do that work are either assumed to exist… or invisible in the funding picture entirely.
Our analysis of 87+ data resilience projects: https://investinopen.org/blog/data-resilience-funding-landscape/
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2️⃣/2️⃣ These documents are preserved in LoCALDig, the California Local Government Documents Collection at @UCBerkeley, a digital archive created in partnership with @internetarchive.
From CEQA planning and BART studies to housing reports and fiscal analyses, the collection preserves the public record that helps explain how California arrived where it is today.
Dig through LoCALDig on the Internet Archive ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/instituteofgovernmentalstudieslibrary -
2️⃣/2️⃣ These documents are preserved in LoCALDig, the California Local Government Documents Collection at @UCBerkeley, a digital archive created in partnership with @internetarchive.
From CEQA planning and BART studies to housing reports and fiscal analyses, the collection preserves the public record that helps explain how California arrived where it is today.
Dig through LoCALDig on the Internet Archive ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/instituteofgovernmentalstudieslibrary -
📢 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
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📢 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
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Anyone got thoughts/recommendations on the feasibility of setting up 120k URL redirects (301 Moved Permanently) as part of an institutional repository migration?
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Anyone got thoughts/recommendations on the feasibility of setting up 120k URL redirects (301 Moved Permanently) as part of an institutional repository migration?
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The Death of Physical Media and the Real Challenges to Software Archiving
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📖 New on the DPC Blog: What's new in DART 3?
@ntallman from APTrust explores the latest release of DART 3, introducing new community-requested features that support digital preservation workflows, including expanded packaging options, S3 downloads, upload-only jobs, and an easier migration path from DART 2.
Read the guest blog here 👉🏽 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/blog-dart-3-nathan-tallman
#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #Community #APTrust #DART #BagIt #OpenSource
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💡 How do you preserve digital assets and media for the long term, in a world where software is anything but?
#DigitalPreservation #OpenStandards #OpenScholarship #ResearchInfrastructure #Libraries #Archives #DigitalHumanities #Interoperability
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Booksprint mode: activated 📚
DPC's staff William, Garth, Amy and Karyn are spending three days together at the #DPC's Glasgow office working on the next update of the #DigitalPreservation Handbook!
The Handbook brings together good practice and practical tools to help create, manage and preserve digital materials. This Booksprint is a key milestone in its year-long revision.
We can't wait to share what's coming next! https://www.dpconline.org/handbook
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Per me, l'unico modo di intendere la preservazione digitale dei videogiochi è: andare a scavare dove nessuno ha mai scavato prima, sperando non sia troppo tardi. #retrogaming #commodore #commodorepet #digitalpreservation
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Added to awesome-iiif!!
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Shortened links? Expand them and save the URLs
by @beet_keeperShortened 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?
#Code #Coding #cURL #digipres #DigitalArchiving #DigitalPreservation #httpreserve #httpreserveLinkstat #JC #linkstat #Paradata #WebArchives #webArchiving -
Microsoft is reportedly testing a system to turn physical Xbox discs into digital entitlements, bridging the gap between disc ownership and an all-digital future. Details are thin, but if it works it could be a preservation win for anyone who still buys on disc. No more worrying about a dead drive when the store eventually sunsets. https://pocg.net/news/xbox-disc-to-digital-conversion-report/ #RetroGaming #Xbox #PhysicalMedia #DigitalPreservation