#digitalpreservation — Public Fediverse posts

An Update on Wayback Machine Access

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716176

#HackerNews #WaybackMachine #ArchiveAccess #InternetHistory #DigitalPreservation #WebArchiving

Next week, we’ll use these criteria to look at how five widely used archiving services approach the preservation of OA books — and how an open approach to archiving might look like.

Read more:
https://copim.pub/copim-open-archiving-criteria-for-open-access-publications/

#OpenAccess #OABooks #DigitalPreservation 6/END

https://www.europesays.com/iran/291343/ Modern Remnants: Calque Studio and the Race Against Tehran’s Architectural Erasure #ADArticle #ArchitectsSouthwest #ArchitecturalPreservation #Architecture #Asia #CulturalHeritage #DigitalPreservation #Heritage #HeritageConservation #HeritageRestoration #HistoricPreservation #Iran #Modernism #Preservation #SouthwestAsiaAndNorthAfrica #Tashkent #Tehran #UNESCO #Uzbekistan

✨Bringing light to #SafeguardingDataHealth ✨

Digital preservation is stingy: Bits can rot, humans are humans.

Explore CPP-007 to learn how #VirusScanning shields you from malice.

CPP-004 and CPP-027 are your safety net for managing #DataCorruption and #FileRepair: http://tiny.cc/cpp-desc

#EOSCEDEN #CPPs #digitalpreservation #FAIRdata

‼️ ATTENTION ‼️

⏰ Proposals for #iipcWAC26, "Sustainable #WebArchiving," in Brussels are due in 1 WEEK (15 OCT): http://netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP

First-time submitters encouraged! Need inspiration?
https://www.youtube.com/@iipc8855/featured

#WebArchives #WebArchiveWednesday #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities
@webarchives

📣This #WebArchiveWednesday, plan your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! http://netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP

🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15

#webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities
@webarchives

This #WebArchiveWednesday, check out these travel reports from attendees of #iipcWAC25: https://netpreserveblog.wordpress.com/tag/WAC2025/

Inspired? Start planning your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! http://netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP

#webarchives | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities | @webarchives

📣Start planning your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” today! 📣

🗓️ Proposals due October 15
🇧🇪 20-23 APR 2026 at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium

For more info: https://netpreserve.org/ga2026/cfp/

Need inspiration? Check out past presentations: https://www.youtube.com/@iipc8855/featured

#webarchives | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities | @webarchives

Since informalscience.org was down (probably due to ongoing manufactured funding chaos), I've downloaded the NISE reports that fellow evaluator Amy Grack Nelson shared. It's about 10 years of previously publicly available reports from museums and nonprofit organizations.

If there's interest here, I can share the link, but I don't want to give the bots/scrapers more fuel.

#evaluation #research #InformalLearning #museums #glam #DigitalPreservation

Ethan Gates shared his bibliography of 30+ years' (1992-present) of emulation related readings, 200+ conference papers: https://www.zotero.org/ethan-gates/collections/ERZIYJ3T

Criteria:
- published/written works
- must include the terms #emulate / #emulator / #emulation in context of #DigitalPreservation
- if 4 video games - must apply beyond hobbyist context

Lessons:
- worthy of an in-depth literature review
- conversations have been dominated by small group
- most are case studies & research

#LightningTalk
#IPres2024

Shattering the eyeglass: Using Kaitai Structs to dissect the eyeglass’ contents

by @beet_keeper

In my post from 2012: Genesis of a File Format, I created a new file format – the Eyeglass file format. The format provides a mechanism to persist information about a patient’s eye health following a checkup at an opticians. Today in 2023 we can use the format to understand how to make use of Kaitai Structs for understanding file formats.

Given the disclaimer that I am not actually an optician and that the format is purely illustrative, let’s look at the eyeglass again below.

#Code #Coding #digipres #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #FileFormat #FileFormatAnalysis #FileFormats #kaitai #PRONOM #YYYY

What is the checksum of a directory? Introducing sumfolder1

by @beet_keeper

In Fractal in detail: What information is in a file-format identification report? I describe the different ways of dissecting the information in a file-format identification report.

A file-format identification report is a data-rich artifact created during the processing of digital collections.

I had the idea of using this type of report to attach a checksum to an archival collection (files, and directories) as a whole. This is done using methods akin to a Merkle Tree, similar to those in source control systems such as Git, and Web3 Blockchain projects like Bitcoin.

This project is called sumfolder1.

#Archives #Bitcoin #checksums #collectionIntegrity #digipres #DigitalPreservation #DROID #MerkleTree #Python #SoftwareDevelopment #web3