@alicefraser.bsky.social maybe an interesting story for The Gargle? www.popsci.com/technology/f...

I will share more of our findings as we get into data analysis, but we're reviewing energy usage & climate impact metrics for our cloud-hosted digital collections at MPOW, and the results have been really misaligned with what our expectations were. I strongly encourage other folks to do this.

We are pleased to announce that #nttw10 conference will take place in October 14-16 at the Filmoteka Narodowa - Instytut Audiowizualny, Warsaw! 🤩 Registration and call for proposals will open on February 12th at noon CET at mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait10!

New DPC blog post: Supporting COPTR, our community-owned tool registry www.dpconline.org/blog/support... #DigiPres

New blog post: Registries of Good Practice: Project Closure & Legacy Plan

Have a look at what paid- and non-paid services you are making use of in your #digipres stack. Take a moment to be uncomfortable; take time to contribute back to the commons. exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/when-yo... #GLAM #OpenSource #Commons #Community #Contributing #ProfessionalDevelopment

New blog post: Booting up a Badgewear Tufty

What is "bit rot"? How safe are your data? Researching this for future episodes on the subject brought me to the Centre of Computing History in Cambridge www.computinghistory.org.uk where I talked to Adrian Page-Mitchell, who showed me a "decaying" laser disc (BBC Domesday project).

New blog post: Re-launching COPTR!

Everyone wants to blame the content: misinformation, bots, polarisation. That mistakes catalysts and symptoms for the underlying causes. The crisis isn’t bad information, it's that the very information infrastructure we relied on to create a shared understand of the world had changed completely.

📢 23 new PRONOM Unique Identifiers, 23 new signatures and 19 updates 📢 Take a look at the newest version of PRONOM, the online registry maintained by The National Archives (UK) that helps identify digital file formats to support long-term preservation👉🏽 […]

📢 23 new PRONOM Unique Identifiers, 23 new signatures and 19 updates 📢 Take a look at the newest version of PRONOM, the online registry maintained by The National Archives (UK) that helps identify digital file formats to support long-term preservation👉🏽 buff.ly/auPnyeq

New DPC blog is up! KBNL visits the National Library of Norway for a joint preservation workshop — learning, sharing, and building connections in Mo i Rana. This is the DPC community in action! 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ buff.ly/jTu6saO

Still time to sign up for the DPC's event on Preserving eBooks where we will be hearing from @wisealic.bsky.social, @jasminemulliken.bsky.social, @northgardner.bsky.social and more. Further details and registration here: www.dpconline.org/events/event...

I wrote this poem the day after Renee Good was murdered - it’s about how the media and politicians immediately dehumanised her. I have had a few people ask “who wrote it?” So I am putting it up again - written in anger

This story is one of lapses in cybersecurity and digital preservation. I read it thinking of Palantir and its access to NHS data… what could go wrong for the people of the UK? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It can be tricky to preserve social media. Here is a @flickrfdn.bsky.social report "The State of Social Media Archiving Tools:" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Things keep reminding me of youtu.be/6T2zUEiVQU4?... - it's all rather depressing.

Trying to find ways to describe how digital media work, so different tactics (emulation, migration, etc.) are clearer. Does this start to help?

If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...

The deadline for submitting a proposal for the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual conference is 30 Jan digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-.... The conference is 15-16 June and this year’s theme is Sustainability (broadly defined).

If you’re considering automating some Archivematica workflows in 2026 then here are some utility scripts I just finished for BFI colleagues. Hope they can be of assistance! github.com/bfidatadigip... Happy New Year! #digipres #Archivematica #AtoM #borndigital #python

It's a reliable *shocked Pikachu face* line for audiences, but I have to explain that when we started archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage websites, the instability of the power grid in the Bay Area was a bigger impediment and risk than Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.

A final festive post on my @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy blog: Byte Christmas www.dpconline.org/blog/byte-ch... #DigiPres #SorryNotSorry

The OPF Winter Newsletter is now live 🎄 ! Catch up on the latest from the OPF and find out what we have been working on as the year draws to a close. Read here 👉 mailchi.mp/openpreserva...

Really excited about this DPC members event: Copy That Floppy... LIVE! www.dpconline.org/events/event... - includes the perfect Christmas gift idea for the #digipres enthusiast!

More good news for the new year! We'll be hosting an official re-launch event for the COPTR tool discovery wiki! Please come along if you can... https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/579/-/dpclinic-january-relaunching-coptr

Season’s greetings from the DPC 🎄Thank you to everyone across our global community for the ideas and good cheer you bring to #digitalpreservation. We wish you a lovely break and look forward to more conversations in 2026! buff.ly/ehIifit

🌟 Happy Holidays from the Digital Preservation Coalition 🌟 As we wrap up 2025, #DPC staff are getting ready to close our laptops and take a break. It has been an incredible year, and we're grateful to everyone across our global membership and wider […] [Original post on digipres.club]

TIL about github.com/midwork-find..., a DuckDB ext. to query web archive CDX APIs directly from SQL. i.e., query Wayback Machine & Common Crawl CDX APIs like they were database tables! #webarchiving @archive.org @waybackmachine.bsky.social h/t @atomotic.com via @inkdroid.org(merveilles.town/@ink)

Really excited about this DPC members event: Copy That Floppy... LIVE! www.dpconline.org/events/event... - includes the perfect Christmas gift idea for the #digipres enthusiast!

The digital dark age has only taken two decades to arrive. #digipres www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Just days after the @softwaresaved.bsky.social announced the fellows for 2026, meet Deborah Udoh, Jyoti Boghal and Sangeeta Bhatia from this year's cohort. Find out what they've been up to in this episode [EN] of #code4thought, out on your podcast apps, YouTube & codeforthought.buzzsprout.com

Stephen Hawking’s Floppy Disks & the Digital Legacy of Science: An Interview with Leontien Talboom -> www.aip.org/library/ex-l...

Tune in for the 2nd part of our 4-part blog series over at the #OPF, on Open Infrastructures. This issue is about 'Control': openpreservation.org/blogs/part-2... #openinfrastructure #digitalpreservation

This week on #code4thought [EN] we're going to @unisouthampton.bsky.social (UK) to meet @jwbaker.bsky.social , head of the Southampton Digital Humanities there. There is a lot going on there. To find out more, listen to it on your podcast app, YouTube or codeforthought.buzzsprout.com

📢 #DPC Full Members: our new Research & Development Fund is now open! Up to £30k available for small, practical #digitalpreservation projects. Joint proposals (with associate members or non-members) welcome if led by a Full Member. Deadline: 16 Feb 2026 More information at buff.ly/H2YNAt8

Finally a piece in the Times about the British Library! It echoes many of the points I raised a few weeks ago, including why policymakers and the media have paid so little attention to it www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...

Our services will be affected between 8 and 12 December due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site. This includes an extension to our current collection access suspension. To check what’s impacted, please visit our website. bit.ly/StrikeAction...

This Christmas why not treat yourself (or your organisation) to an OPF membership? As well as access to excellent resources, knowledge sharing and support, you’ll be helping to keep essential #digipres tools maintained long into the future! More here openpreservation.org/membership/w...

New @dpc_chat blog post: DPC December Knowledge Wrap, week 1: The Community Gift https://www.dpconline.org/blog/dpc-december-knowledge-wrap-week-1-the-community-gift #digipres

UK Budget – is this the end of democracy? youtu.be/g0lEbH2kEw8

This is a very interesting interview with @melissaterras.bsky.social on @transkribus.bsky.social 's co-operative model, and how to balance financial imperatives with academic imperatives. #DigitalHistory

DPC Blog: Call for comments on a new guide to help you copy those floppies https://www.dpconline.org/blog/call-for-comments-on-a-new-floppy-disk-guide thanks to #futurenostalgia led by @makethecatwise #digipres

Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

George Oates, founding executive director of @flickrfdn.bsky.social, is leading the effort to preserve Flickr's history for the next century. @rabble.nz, creator of diVine, reflects on how much culture disappeared when Vine shut down with no archive to protect it. Full episode out now.

🚀 💫 A quick reminder that our CPP webinar is happening next Monday — looking forward to seeing many of you there! 💻 When: Mon 1 Dec 2025 | 11:00–12:00 CET time (online) 🔗https://eden-fidelis.eu/events/what-every-trustworthy-digital-archive-should-be-doing-30-core-preservation-process

Hey #digipres folks, over on the #ApplesauceFDC discord, someone's been working through how to archive punch cards (since they've got a large stack of them), and put together a documented #format for #punchcards […]

This is a good note to end the week. The plight of @britishlibrary.bsky.social has been picked up in @nature.com’s influential daily briefing. Thanks everyone (including @floragraham.bsky.social) who is getting the word out there about our national library us17.campaign-archive.com?u=2c6057c528...

Yesterday was World Preservation Day! To mark the day, the Energy Data Centre team all answered the question: "Why Preserve?" Read their responses in our latest blog. ukerc.ac.uk/news/why-pre...