Revisiting bsdiff for digital preservation. I first blogged about this in 2014, but how does it stand in terms of its potential and ease of use in 2025? I take a look in this new blog. exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/bsdiff-... #digipres #Linux #FreeBSD #Provenance #Archives #DigitalForensics

Upcoming community sessions next week carpentries.org/community/ev... Events are in UTC Time : 📣 Workbench Transition Coworking 29 Sep 08:00 & 18:00 📣 US Midwest Community Call 1 Oct 17:00 📣 HPC Carpentry Community Call 2 Oct 11:00 & 21:00 📣 CarpentriesOffline Community Call 3 Oct 13:00

This Library Carpentries course material might be useful: joshuadull.github.io/APIs-for-Lib...

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff follow Friday. This week let me recommend @legionofllama.bsky.social recently mived to newish role at Warwick University Press always doing interesting things and #digipres is in the mix.

📣This #WebArchiveWednesday, plan your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP 🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15 #webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities

#DigiPres question. Anyone know of any API for Dummies resources? Basically a beginners guide for someone who thinks they might be useful but has zero experience?

As part of the launch of the Data Lifeboat, we will be sharing some examples of Data Lifeboats. The Commons 1k Data Lifeboat is a collection of 1,000 of the most liked and talked about images from Flickr Commons. You can see the full Data Lifeboat and datalifeboat.flickr.org/showcase

Even great code has some bugs! Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started. Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.

📢 Calling all DPC Members! World Digital Preservation Day (#wdpd2025) is in 6 weeks from today! This year we’re asking the big question: Why Preserve? We invite you to share your blogs, vlogs, or short testimonials on why your organisation preserves digital material. Share your reason with us […]

Presenting a Paper at #iPRES2025 and wondering what to expect? Then this blog post is for you! Here are some tips and advice for presenting Full and Short Papers at iPRES in Wellington! www.ipres2025.nz/post/present...

And a follow-up post: Archiving Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn https://www.dpconline.org/blog/archiving-facebook-instagram-linkedin /cc @dpc_chat

With thanks to colleagues in Manchester University, pleased to see this new initiative scoping #digitalpreservation in the archives of humanitarian agencies getting under way - www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...

Does anyone know someone who are involved with Norwegian game preservation or video game history? #GLAM #DigiPres

Great blog by @anjacks0n.bsky.social of @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy on archiving facebook & other social media It links to some of what I was saying @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference last Friday & the challenges in collecting activist history here & now www.dpconline.org/blog/archivi...

This week's #TidyTuesday was data on British library funding, compiled by Andy Jackson @anjacks0n.bsky.social and curated by Jon Harmon @jonthegeek.com. Thank you, @libbyheeren.bsky.social for hosting today!

Work in #digitalpreservation? I'd like you to complete a short survey created just for you! 😍 It's all about identification, selection + appraisal practices and will help @eosc-eden.bsky.social project massively. Please have your say - we need YOUR expertise: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run... #digipres

The #iPRES2025 May newsletter will be coming out very soon! 👀 Make sure you're signed up for the official iPRES mailing list at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j... to keep up to date with all things iPRES!

So pleased to see these go live - new workflows for digital preservation: one on emails and one (a bit more conceptual) on line of business systems: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... These should help you get your brain around steps and options in these format-specific headaches.

Cross-posting from digipres.club...

This is a fantastic opportunity, and you could not hope to work with nicer people. Web archiving is indeed awesome!

Attending the Uni of London School of Advanced Studies’ fab ‘Born-Digital: Collections, Archives, Memory’ conference has brought interesting results! digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

We (@SafeguardingResearch) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA: https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569 If you can contribute, please consider doing so. #noaa #safeguardingresearch #data #weather

Told my terrified students what I’ve been telling myself, which is that the *only thing* that will make you feel better right now is joining some collective action. But do that and you’ll immediately feel better. Do it as a mental health measure, if nothing else.

The DPC's Mental Health and Wellbeing in the #digipres Community Survey Findings Report has now been published. This has been one of the most challenging but rewarding things I have ever worked on. Find out more on the DPC site: www.dpconline.org/news/mental-...

We've got all the right bytes... Just not necessarily in the right order. #digipres https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpnn635x6o

Really shocking from the National Library of Australia. Tim's digital work is so fantastic but it's facilitated by OA to this corpus of newspapers. If other libraries follow suit, work like @ryancordell.org's will be threatened too. Stunningly bad. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/03/02/t...

Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

A person with direct knowledge confirmed with me that Marko Elez requested that the Wayback Machine remove all of his past tweets. A Internet Archives rep said this is their longstanding policy — that rights holders can request URLs to be excluded — but wouldn't comment on any specific case.

We’re proud to be collaborating with the @eotarchive.org and EDGI to capture and preserve critical government websites before they’re lost, using our high-fidelity web archiving tools: Browsertrix and ArchiveWeb.page webrecorder.net/blog/2025-02... #webarchiving #digitalpreservation #EOTarchive

Next week I'll be speaking with my colleague, Veronica about our born-digital workflows at this DPC virtual event. Registration is now available www.dpconline.org/events/event...

New blog post: Tightrope - an iPRES 2024 trip report https://anjackson.net/2025/01/05/tightrope/ #digipres #ipres2024

Sharing a digital preservation starter pack. #digipres #archives #library 📚 go.bsky.app/3SpFvF1

New DPC blog: An Unexpected Gift https://www.dpconline.org/blog/an-unexpected-gift #digipres #ipres2024

In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.

New DPC blog post: An Unexpected Gift www.dpconline.org/blog/an-unex...

Unsure what Business as Usual means for #DigitalPreservation? Join me and Jenny Mitcham online on January 21st if you're interested in this topic and how it might apply to your own work! Register here: www.dpconline.org/events/event...

Been working on a thing... A little Christmas present for you lovely #digipres people... And it gave me a nice concrete I-know-how-to-finish-this task, in contrast to the other oh-my-god-what-is-this tasks... 😂

Happening today, 10am PT / 1pm ET You can still sign-up at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New blog post: "Building Low-Maintenance Community Websites" https://anjackson.net/2024/12/06/building-low-maintenance-community-websites/ I mean, what's the good of having principles if you can't break them from time to time?

Have a snowflake from 1890. The alt text explains how these remarkable snowflake studies were made. The collection of photos is with the Smithsonian Institution Archives and can be viewed on @flickrfdn.bsky.social Flickr Commons.

In Sept 2024, I received an IMLS Early Career Research Grant to study field-wide challenges and potential opportunities for born-digital stewardship through the lens of practitioner experiences. You can follow project updates and news here: digistew.unc.edu

A follow up post: British Library funding breakdown & trends anjackson.net/2024/11/29/b...

As I said on Mastodon: biggest problem in digital preservation - funding.

New blog post: Updating the data on British Library funding anjackson.net/2024/11/27/u...

New blog post: Updating the data on British Library funding anjackson.net/2024/11/27/u...

Did I mention that I'm looking for a new role? If anyone is interested in award-winning work on digital preservation, digital textuality, fixing scholcomms systems and their economics, or even just plain old literary criticism, please get in touch.

A new blog post on some not-really-work things I've been playing around with lately: Designs & Creations https://anjackson.net/2024/11/26/designs-creations/

Worried about the future of your favorite websites, digital art, or data? You can do something about it. SUCHO is partnering with @ach.bsky.social & @webrecorder.net to host a DIY archiving workshop 11/25 at 1 Eastern / 10 Pacific: www.sucho.org/diy-archiving

DIY archiving workshop is happening today! Expected to be the first of several, if you can't make this time. Come feel better by doing something to protect a piece of the internet you care about. ❤️