#digitalarchives — Public Fediverse posts

New at bl.ag online, ‘Documenting the Signs and Sign Painters of Bursa, Turkey’, with @muraterturk sharing YazıBursa, a living digital archive of Bursa’s hand-painted signs and vernacular lettering.

https://bl.ag/documenting-the-signs-and-sign-painters-of-bursa-turkey/

#SignPainting #SignPainters #Archives #DigitalArchives #Bursa #Turkey #Lettering

Gizmodo: Google Can’t Promise You’ll Always Have Access to Your Digital Library, but Can Give You a Small Credit. “Having your favorite films and TV shows in your digital library is supposed to mean you can access them anytime, anywhere. It actually means being able to access them as long as your digital overlord allows. Polygon recently highlighted how this problem hits consumers, […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/117087865807803450

This is also a big problem for digital collections of #culturalHeritage, for #museums, and #archives! If they don't have a "backup cloud".

#archiving #archivodon #digitalArchives #MuseumDigital #CloudComputing

Oops. A virus left its traces on some of the disks. But ... the virus was created only after the author's death! The virus thus becomes a stemmatological tool #retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

What do you do when you receive a collection of 115 floppy disks without any indication of order or content? Pick one (do not forget to make a forensic copy) and take a peek! #retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

Digital philology thus allows to study not only what was written, but how something was written in digital environments (blackened text in the image is still unpublished) #retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

The end of digital text is sometimes not the end of digital text. Some files - especially such created by Word - have invisible extensions. In this case, they contain text which was deleted before a file was saved. This can be quite interesting material! #retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

Leetspeak Easter Egg: Microsoft encoded the file header as the hex sequence "D0CF11E", which reads "docfile". #retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

Digitality starts with at least two distinct symbols, typically 0 and 1, but it could also be 🍎 and 🍐 - the computer does not care. The computer decodes groups of binaries into something that humans can understand. This interpretation process is arbitrary: it relies on knowledge about what is encoded. Was it intended to represent a number or a letter? #retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

"Philology has always read the traces left on paper. What changes when those traces are no longer inscribed on te page, but embedded in a hard drive?"#retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

In the humanities, digital forensics, however yet untypical, are gaining ground. It allows, for example, retrace the creative process, much like classical text genesis, but in another medium. If a writer uses a computer, this process will be untraceable without a digital philology #retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

The archive is changing because writing practices are changing, and this is an ongoing and very silent process. That is the moment for digital forensics. First, make a forensic copy - legally equivalent to the original - to save the data from obsolescence #retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

The archive is changing! What was once a symbol for "save file" became not only a funny retro emoji, but an actual challenge for the archives. What to do with digital media we do not even know any more from own experience? #retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

Today 4PM Lecture: "Digital Remains: An Introduction to Forensic Philology" by Mariangela Giglio (Bologna), part of the series "Hack & Play", online and on site at the @ZPD. Further information and livestream: https://
hacknplay2026.rtrlb.de
#retrocomputing #digitalforensics #digitalheritage #borndigital #digitalarchives #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

Vanderbilt University: University of Ottawa, Vanderbilt forge new partnership on Indigenous digital archives and mobile history research. “The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) and Vanderbilt University are working together to advance Indigenous-led knowledge preservation and research through a new international agreement. uOttawa has signed a new memorandum of understanding with Vanderbilt, […]

📸📜Neu auf unserem Blog: In seinem fotografischen Bericht zur #DHd2026 in Wien zeigt Firmin Forster, wie sich die #DigitalHumanities zwischen analogem Quellenmaterial und computergestützten Methoden bewegen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Digitalisierung von Kulturerbe, Fragen der Langzeitarchivierung und der Einsatz großer Sprachmodelle in der Papyrologie.

📝 https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/13788

#4memory #DigitalArchives

@historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities

The #Dariah2026 keynote lecture by Andreas Fickers addresses the challenges of a #UI design in #digitalarchives that unduly hides complexity and forces different perspectives into one unified corpus:

https://annualevent.dariah.eu/andreas-fickers-is-the-keynote-speaker-for-annual-event-2026/

Old mobile backups are like digital time capsules. ⏳📁

They hold years of forgotten chats, buried photos, and pieces of your digital history. But keeping them locked in raw, unreadable formats means those memories stay invisible.

We built #Keepita to help you unlock and browse your past easily, securely, and locally.

Time to dust off your old files: https://keepita.com/

#Keepita #DigitalArchives #DataDiscovery #MobileBackup #PrivacyFirst #TechTools #IndieDev #BuildInPublic

Google celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with AI-driven history experience

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/google-america-250/

the science history institute museum and library has a fantastic digital collection!

here are some items i found while researching for my industrial agriculture zine today:

"the romance of modern chemistry" (1909): https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/d217qq890

"defense against radioactive fallout on the farm" (1964): https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/x66sivk

"Liber Secreti Naturali" (an alchemical recipe book from 1425-1450): https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/wg1tm9j

"Land Development with Hercules Dynamite" (1923): https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/voyeszj

"The Conquest of Hunger: Featuring Prosper Plenty and His Magical Chemicals" (1951): https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/wkhj76n

#science #ScienceHistory #museums #research #DigitalArchives #history

I just found 20 years worth of manually tagged images! I thought the tagging had been lost to the gods of software past.

People names, places, event names, all back.

So happy!!!

#homelab #immich #digitalarchives #photos #memories

Densho: Building the Densho Digital Repository: Three Decades of Digital Preservation. “How did Densho’s digital archives begin, and how have they evolved over nearly three decades? Densho Archives Director Caitlin Oiye Coon traces the journey from the creation of Densho’s first ‘Digital Archive’ in 1998 to today’s ‘Densho Digital Repository,’ highlighting the people, technologies, and […]

https://archive.org/details/creative-computing-magazine/Creative_Computing_Vol_01_01_1974_Nov_Dec[ocr]/mode/2up

via @ranoya

#CreativeComputing #RetroComputing #DigitalArchives

How much usable data is sitting in our archives, digitized but not truly accessible?

New vision-language OCR tools are changing what's possible. Our graduate fellow Chloë Farr tested these on 323 pages of archaeological ceramic data—tables that stumped traditional OCR completely.

Read Chloë's full analysis: 👇
https://kulaacademy.ca/datatables/

#DigitalArchives #GLAM #OpenSource #DataScience #LibraryFutures

Internet Archive Blog: Recording Now Available from “Protect Our Future Memory” Webinar. “Held on January 27, the event brought together legal experts, library leaders, and advocates to talk about Our Future Memory and the global coalition working to secure the protections that memory institutions need in our increasingly digital and networked world.”

Evolving Web: Designing a digital archive in partnership with an Indigenous community. “At Evolving Web, we recently collaborated with the University of Denver on the Our Stories, Our Medicine Archive (OSOMA), a community-owned digital archive that centres traditional Indigenous knowledge related to health, wellness, culture, and identity. Built in close collaboration with community partners, […]