#digital-preservation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digital-preservation, aggregated by home.social.
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Sudan Memory digitized 148,000 items of Sudanese heritage under sanctions and war: smuggled cash, customs delays, and hard drives now missing inside the conflict. #SudanMemory #CulturalHeritage #DigitalPreservation https://www.anthropology.net/p/sudan-memory-digitizing-a-nations
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This wednesday will be presenting "Recovering Silvestre Pestana Computer Poetry for ZX81 and ZX Spectrum"
#ZXspectrum #ZX81 #ComputerPoetry #SilvestrePestana #DigitalPreservation #RetroComputing #Art #Poetry
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I came across an interesting 23-chapter CAD-history site. What once would have meant days of fiddling with wget, an editor, and Calibre took a couple of hours of persistent nagging at GPT: a clean offline copy with no website chrome or marketing, local images, navigation and footnotes, plus an EPUB with linked notes and captioned figures for comfortable smartphone reading.
#CAD #EngineeringHistory #EPUB #DigitalPreservation #OfflineReading #AI -
🤖 What does generative AI mean for #digitalpreservation?
Join #DPCAmericas at #AI4LAM Fantastic Futures 2026 on 15 September for an informal hybrid session on AI, authenticity, trust and preservation practice.
Open to all registered Fantastic Futures attendees, with #DPC Members also welcome to join virtually ☺️
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And help you friends and everyone you know to also dump their media.
(And in case someone knowledgeable with low level programming reads this, the redumper project could use some help in dealing with these kinds of copy protection as currently only proprietary tools for certain types exist that produce a fully working dump)
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Great news 🎉🎉 The complete #iPRES2025 proceedings are now available, together with presentations and session recordings from the conference!
A great opportunity to revisit the iPRES 2025 conference and explore the contributions in more detail before the #digitalpreservation community comes together in Copenhagen for #ipres2026!
Ngā mihi to the iPRES 2025 organisers and everyone involved in bringing these resources together.
Find out more: https://lnkd.in/epESRVsX
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#iPRES2025 has shared their proceedings, presentations, and recordings: https://www.ipres2025.nz/post/ipres-2025-proceedings-now-available
And hey, look! There is my poster: "Leveraging Value Stream Diagrams to Illustrate Digital Preservation's Place Within An Information-Driven Organization"
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📢 We’re pleased to share that the J. Paul Getty Trust is now a Full Member of the Digital Preservation Coalition.
An Associate #DPC Member since 2021, Getty brings significant experience in #digitalpreservation across the cultural heritage sector. Full Membership will enable even deeper engagement with the DPC community, extending access to training and resources across its staff and creating further opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing.
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Post 13 in this thread appears to be the best summary of the situation btw:
http://forum.redump.org/topic/73199/regarding-recent-activities/
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It appears redump[.]info is basically setting themselves up to be sued into the ground.
What a clown show.
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Holly shit, what has been going on in the #Redump community lately. You don't check in on it for the summer and it basically shits itself violently.
Wtf?!? The project apparently split in redump[.]org (the original one) and a new redump[.]info
And when doing so they defaced and deleted a bunch of the stuff on redump[.]org?!?
WTF?!?
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📣 New DPC blog on the block!
"Cyber security and resilience for digital preservation: a big job, a shared responsibility and a collective mission"
DPC's Head of Good Practice Garth Stewart reflects on why collaboration matters and introduces the DPC’s new three-part Technology Watch Guidance Note series, on general release from today.
Read the blog right here 👇
https://www.dpconline.org/blog/cyber-security-blog-garth-stewart#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #digipres #cybersecurity #resilience #techwatch #DPC #community #JoinUs
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Preserve a Public Noblogs Site
Public movement history should not disappear because a server, provider or domain does.
If you run a Noblogs site, save two different things:
A WordPress export containing the material needed to rebuild the site.
A static mirror showing the public site as readers actually saw it.
If you administer the site
Open `YOURBLOG.noblogs.org/wp-admin` and sign in.
In the dashboard, select Tools → Export.
Select All content, then press Download Export File.
Rename the downloaded file `blogname-export-YYYY-MM-DD.xml`.Install the free, open-source program HTTrack.
Open HTTrack and select Next or New Project.
Give the project your blog’s name and choose where the backup should be stored.
Select Add URL, paste the complete public homepage address, then select Next → Finish.When the download finishes, choose Browse Mirrored Website. Open several posts, archive pages, images and downloadable files to make sure they work.
Put the WordPress XML file and the entire HTTrack project folder inside one clearly dated folder. Keep one copy on your computer and another on a separate drive or trusted location.
The XML export does not preserve the site’s appearance. The HTTrack mirror is not a replacement for the WordPress export. Keep both.
If you are preserving someone else’s public site
For an important individual page:
Open the public page and copy its complete URL.
Go to Internet Archive: Save Page Now.
Paste the URL and press Save Page.
Open the archived result and confirm that it works.Install the free, open-source SingleFile browser extension.
Return to the original public page, wait for it to finish loading, click the SingleFile icon and save the resulting `.html` file.For a whole public site, follow the HTTrack instructions above using the public homepage. Do not sign in, enter passwords or attempt to reach private pages.
Record the page title, author or collective, original URL, publication date and the date you saved it. Internet Archive is an additional copy, not your only copy. Submitting a homepage does not guarantee that the Archive captured every linked page.
Finally, test the local backup with Wi-Fi turned off. Open its `index.html`, click through several pages, and make sure images and documents load.
Preserve public material only. Do not bypass logins, collect private data or republish material that could expose people. Respect authorship, context and removal requests.An export is not a mirror. A mirror is not enough. Keep both. Keep two copies.
#Noblogs #InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #MovementArchives #AutisticiInventati #ResistantCommunication #IndependentMedia
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#DPASSH2026 conference materials have been published!
Each iteration of our #DigitalPreservation conference attracts presenters from across the island of Ireland and much farther away as well. Read our news post to view the interactive map and see how our conference continues to grow!
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A post from CLOCKSS argues that what digital preservation actually does is decide which scholarship remains part of the record — and that unless diversity is an explicit input, existing imbalances quietly carry forward. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026-08-18/guest-post-preserving-the-record-shaping-the-future-why-diversity-matters-in-digital-preservation/
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Welcome to the Stacks
By Cliff Potts, Curator
Your Local Device — August 22, 2026Well now.
Look at you.
You made it all the way down here into the stacks, into the humming back room where the folders are a little crooked, the coffee rings are authentic, and the ghosts of headlines past still clear their throats from time to time.
First things first: thank you for visiting.
No, really. Thank you.
Archives don’t breathe without readers. They don’t stretch their legs. They don’t mutter, “You remember when?” They just sit there politely until somebody—maybe you, maybe at 2:13 a.m. in your kitchen glow—opens a page and says, “Wait. What happened here?”
That’s when the lights come on.
Whether you wandered in from across town or across time zones, whether you were looking for one specific date or just tugging on a thread of curiosity, we see you. We see the footprints. We see the return visits. We see the moments where you stayed longer than the algorithm expected you to. And that matters.
WPS News and Occupy 2.5 were never built to be disposable. They weren’t meant to scroll by and evaporate. They were built like file cabinets—stubborn, sometimes heavy, occasionally squeaky, but dependable. We believed then (and we still do) that the record matters. That somebody should write it down. That somebody should refuse to pretend it didn’t happen.
You showed up for that.
Some of you are locals. You know the names. You remember the meetings. You were there when the temperature in the room shifted. You don’t need a glossary—you lived it. When you visit the archives, it’s not nostalgia. It’s verification. It’s a quiet nod: “Yes. That’s how it went.”
Others of you are not from here. Not from this neighborhood, not from this movement, not from this particular corner of the internet where we stack our papers a little high and let the ink run where it must. You found us anyway. Maybe by accident. Maybe by search query. Maybe by rumor.
That’s the part that delights me.
Because archives are invitations disguised as storage. They say: “Come in. You don’t have to have been here in 2011, or 2016, or 2023. Just bring your curiosity.”
And you did.
To those of you peeking in from outside the usual orbit—welcome. Pull up a crate. Dust off a file. Take your time. The past isn’t fragile. It can handle your scrutiny.
Let me tell you something from behind the curator’s desk: it’s no small thing to keep a record. It takes stubbornness. It takes the willingness to publish when it would be easier to shrug. It takes a refusal to let events dissolve into “Was that really a thing?” gaslighting.
So when you open a piece from five years ago—or ten—and you read it carefully, you’re not just browsing. You’re participating. You’re keeping continuity alive. You’re helping stitch together a through-line in a world that loves amnesia.
And yes, I notice when you travel through the old pieces in clusters. I notice when an out-of-state IP lingers over a local zoning fight like it’s a thriller novel. I notice when someone reads a three-part series that absolutely did not trend at the time but quietly mattered.
That’s the secret: the archive outlives the trend.
The daily noise? It fades. The archived record? It waits.
You’ve proven something by being here. You’ve proven that attention still exists. That long-form still matters. That context is not a relic.
And I appreciate that more than you know.
This is the part where I’m supposed to say something polished and dignified about civic engagement and the enduring value of independent documentation. But let’s be honest: what I really want to say is thank you for caring enough to look.
Thank you for refusing the surface skim.
Thank you for clicking the older link.
Thank you for scrolling past the “recent” tab and wandering into 2018 like it’s a well-worn library aisle.
You don’t have to agree with everything in these stacks. In fact, you probably shouldn’t. Archives aren’t shrines. They’re records. They show the evolution, the corrections, the sharpened edges, the moments where we got it exactly right and the moments where we learned something.
That’s the beauty of keeping the receipts.
And here’s something forward-looking, because I can’t help myself: the archive you’re browsing today is the foundation for tomorrow’s clarity. The more we keep, the harder it is for reality to be rewritten. The more you read, the stronger that spine becomes.
So whether this is your first visit or your fiftieth, welcome to the shelves.
Stay as long as you like.
Pull another file.
Follow another footnote.
And know that your presence here—quiet, curious, deliberate—is part of what keeps WPS News and Occupy 2.5 alive.
We built the archive.
You gave it purpose.
And that, dear visitor, is no small thing.
#archives #Books #civicMemory #digitalPreservation #editorialVoice #historicalRecord #History #IndependentJournalism #longformWriting #mediaLiteracy #Occupy25 #Research #WPSNews #writing -
Yesterday I added the page about Juliette to the Web Archive by hand.
Now her story stays there even if the domain goes, or the hosting, or me, or whoever renews it after me.
My son will be able to open it and read it in any of the three languages. The photos got archived too, and that is the part that matters to me most.
For anyone who did not know, and I did not know until this week, you can archive any page and keep it there through - https://web.archive.org/save
It pulls the images, walks through everything and makes a full copy. At least it looks right on mine.
Long life to the Internet Archive!
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebArchive #LinkRot #Pets #PetsOfMastodon #WaybackMachine #Fediverse #Mastodon
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The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325185
#HackerNews #LifeAndDeathOfDirectFile #pdfDocument #DigitalPreservation #TechHistory
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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