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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalpreservation, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Whatiiif error logs showed high demand for Harvard URL support. I obliged! Harvard Digital Collections manifests now load automatically. Also fixed: CONTENTdm 'view at institution' now reconstructs the correct item page even from a bare manifest URL. Check it out:

    whatiiif.com/?manifest=https%3

    #IIIF #DigitalPreservation #Libraries #OpenAccess

  2. Whatiiif error logs showed high demand for Harvard URL support. I obliged! Harvard Digital Collections manifests now load automatically. Also fixed: CONTENTdm 'view at institution' now reconstructs the correct item page even from a bare manifest URL. Check it out:

    whatiiif.com/?manifest=https%3

    #IIIF #DigitalPreservation #Libraries #OpenAccess

  3. Whatiiif error logs showed high demand for Harvard URL support. I obliged! Harvard Digital Collections manifests now load automatically. Also fixed: CONTENTdm 'view at institution' now reconstructs the correct item page even from a bare manifest URL. Check it out:

    whatiiif.com/?manifest=https%3

    #IIIF #DigitalPreservation #Libraries #OpenAccess

  4. Whatiiif error logs showed high demand for Harvard URL support. I obliged! Harvard Digital Collections manifests now load automatically. Also fixed: CONTENTdm 'view at institution' now reconstructs the correct item page even from a bare manifest URL. Check it out:

    whatiiif.com/?manifest=https%3

    #IIIF #DigitalPreservation #Libraries #OpenAccess

  5. Whatiiif error logs showed high demand for Harvard URL support. I obliged! Harvard Digital Collections manifests now load automatically. Also fixed: CONTENTdm 'view at institution' now reconstructs the correct item page even from a bare manifest URL. Check it out:

    whatiiif.com/?manifest=https%3

    #IIIF #DigitalPreservation #Libraries #OpenAccess

  6. What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?

    Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.

    islandinthenet.com/what-happen

  7. What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?

    Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.

    islandinthenet.com/what-happen

  8. Porting SafeText and analyzing digital content with Apache Tika

    by @beet_keeper

    Last year I wrote about pitfalls in modern journalism, especially with regards to receiving documents and information from whistleblowers without offering them adequate protection.

    The tl;dr is that you, as a whistleblower, need to protect yourself; and you, as an editor or journalist, need to protect your whistleblowers.

    Steganographic fingerprints might be one method adopted to detect someone leaking information. Steganographic characters replace common textual characters with unusual but hard to detect variants, e.g. they look the same to the human eye, or are actually invisible. Using a tool called SafeText by David Jacobson we can identify these hidden fingerprints in the content that you share.

    I firmly believe we can find clues about what is important to preserve, or learn to preserve, when we analyse the content of the digital record and not just the (file) format of the digital record.

    A file can contain many different features and these are all challenges to their future interpretation, and thus preservation.

    I wanted to use SafeText in some of my other non-Python tooling and so I decided to port the code to Golang as a composable module and binary.

    By coincidence at the time I started writing this I had also just written about revisiting tikalinkextract and so I thought I would write this small explanation about how you might combine Tika and SafeText to perform some content analysis of your own.

    Who knows, maybe we will find a conspiracy. Maybe we’ll find secret codes in our own digital records. Maybe we’ll learn something new about our records…

    Lets have a look at putting Tika and SafeText together and see where it goes.


    #ApacheTika #authenticity #Code #Coding #ContentAnalysis #Data #DigitalHumanities #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #Golang #integrity #Metadata #Paradata #SafeText #steganography
  9. Digital dark times: Salaries in digital preservation

    by @beet_keeper

    The Serpentine is one of the world’s most renowned art galleries. Their exhibitions as varied as Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, and Marina Abramović. They don’t hold a permanent collection, instead, they provide a space for temporary collections and an annual pavilion, the pavilion designed by luminaries such as Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Ai Weiwei.

    Given a recent job posting it looks like they are looking at maintaining their memory better and branching out into digital preservation.

    Here’s the kicker — its salary band is GBP 35,000 to GBP 38,000. So it must be an entry level position, especially in London, right?

    Well, let’s see what they want you to do for that price tag…


    #Archives #Art #artGalleries #artHistory #ArtsCouncilEngland #career #digipres #DigitalArchiving #DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation #digitalPreservationIsPeople #dpip #earlyCareer #employment #GLAM #jobPostings #london #outreach #salaries #Serpentine #SerpentineGalleries #SerpentineGallery
  10. Digital dark times: Salaries in digital preservation

    by @beet_keeper

    The Serpentine is one of the world’s most renowned art galleries. Their exhibitions as varied as Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, and Marina Abramović. They don’t hold a permanent collection, instead, they provide a space for temporary collections and an annual pavilion, the pavilion designed by luminaries such as Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Ai Weiwei.

    Given a recent job posting it looks like they are looking at maintaining their memory better and branching out into digital preservation.

    Here’s the kicker — its salary band is GBP 35,000 to GBP 38,000. So it must be an entry level position, especially in London, right?

    Well, let’s see what they want you to do for that price tag…


    #Archives #Art #artGalleries #artHistory #ArtsCouncilEngland #career #digipres #DigitalArchiving #DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation #digitalPreservationIsPeople #dpip #earlyCareer #employment #GLAM #jobPostings #london #outreach #salaries #Serpentine #SerpentineGalleries #SerpentineGallery
  11. Note to self:
    Check out Flashpoint, people mentioned it as the "internet archive but for flash games", and it looks interesting but I have no idea if it is legal here or not (yet).

    Looks interesting though.

    #Flash #Flashpoint #gaming #archiving #digitalpreservation

  12. Note to self:
    Check out Flashpoint, people mentioned it as the "internet archive but for flash games", and it looks interesting but I have no idea if it is legal here or not (yet).

    Looks interesting though.

    #Flash #Flashpoint #gaming #archiving #digitalpreservation

  13. Note to self:
    Check out Flashpoint, people mentioned it as the "internet archive but for flash games", and it looks interesting but I have no idea if it is legal here or not (yet).

    Looks interesting though.

    #Flash #Flashpoint #gaming #archiving #digitalpreservation

  14. Note to self:
    Check out Flashpoint, people mentioned it as the "internet archive but for flash games", and it looks interesting but I have no idea if it is legal here or not (yet).

    Looks interesting though.

    #Flash #Flashpoint #gaming #archiving #digitalpreservation

  15. Note to self:
    Check out Flashpoint, people mentioned it as the "internet archive but for flash games", and it looks interesting but I have no idea if it is legal here or not (yet).

    Looks interesting though.

    #Flash #Flashpoint #gaming #archiving #digitalpreservation

  16. 🎉 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: #Xz is not the Holy Grail of data formats! 🚀 Apparently, using xz for digital preservation is like using a sieve as a bucket—bound to fail. Who knew? 🤦‍♂️ Stick to #bzip2, #gzip, or #lzip if you want actual functionality and avoid sinking your data into the abyss of inadequacy. 🔍💾
    nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate. #dataformats #digitalpreservation #HackerNews #ngated

  17. 🎉 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: #Xz is not the Holy Grail of data formats! 🚀 Apparently, using xz for digital preservation is like using a sieve as a bucket—bound to fail. Who knew? 🤦‍♂️ Stick to #bzip2, #gzip, or #lzip if you want actual functionality and avoid sinking your data into the abyss of inadequacy. 🔍💾
    nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate. #dataformats #digitalpreservation #HackerNews #ngated

  18. 🎉 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: #Xz is not the Holy Grail of data formats! 🚀 Apparently, using xz for digital preservation is like using a sieve as a bucket—bound to fail. Who knew? 🤦‍♂️ Stick to #bzip2, #gzip, or #lzip if you want actual functionality and avoid sinking your data into the abyss of inadequacy. 🔍💾
    nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate. #dataformats #digitalpreservation #HackerNews #ngated

  19. 🎉 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: #Xz is not the Holy Grail of data formats! 🚀 Apparently, using xz for digital preservation is like using a sieve as a bucket—bound to fail. Who knew? 🤦‍♂️ Stick to #bzip2, #gzip, or #lzip if you want actual functionality and avoid sinking your data into the abyss of inadequacy. 🔍💾
    nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate. #dataformats #digitalpreservation #HackerNews #ngated

  20. After spending Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia, to attend RE+, I'm back and able to get some of these new drives into the antifa torrent server. I intend to swap two of these into the server this weekend, which is good timing because another old drive is now failing as well. That's like five 2TB drives that have dropped in the last 6 months lol. Thank you all so much for your generous donations to make this project continue! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

  21. After spending Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia, to attend RE+, I'm back and able to get some of these new drives into the antifa torrent server. I intend to swap two of these into the server this weekend, which is good timing because another old drive is now failing as well. That's like five 2TB drives that have dropped in the last 6 months lol. Thank you all so much for your generous donations to make this project continue! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

  22. 🎤🎓 Behold the riveting saga of "Archival Storage" — where David Rosenthal regales us with tales from his seminar, valiantly attempting to make digital preservation seem like the next summer blockbuster. Spoiler alert: it's not. 🌟📂
    blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival #ArchivalStorage #DigitalPreservation #DavidRosenthal #TechTalks #SummerBlockbuster #Storytelling #HackerNews #ngated

  23. 🎤🎓 Behold the riveting saga of "Archival Storage" — where David Rosenthal regales us with tales from his seminar, valiantly attempting to make digital preservation seem like the next summer blockbuster. Spoiler alert: it's not. 🌟📂
    blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival #ArchivalStorage #DigitalPreservation #DavidRosenthal #TechTalks #SummerBlockbuster #Storytelling #HackerNews #ngated

  24. ⏰Nicht verpassen!⏰
    Der Anmeldeschluss für den Workshop "Für immer und EWIG - Langzeitverfügbarkeit von digitalem Kulturerbe" ist der 2.12.: Jetzt noch schnell einen Platz sichern und dabei sein!
    Am 5.12. von 10 bis 13 Uhr am Zuse-Institut Berlin (Online-Teilnahme möglich) möchten wir das Langzeitarchiv #EWIG vorstellen und über die Bedeutung nachhaltiger digitaler Verfügbarkeit von (Kultur-)Daten diskutieren 💬
    digis-berlin.de/fuer-immer-und
    #LZA #Langzeitarchivierung #DigitalPreservation #Digipres