‘Although the [British Library] has been making heroic efforts to bring its services back, without additional funding to speed up the recovery, our national research capacity will continue to suffer.’ @richove.bsky.social on why libraries should be on the policy agenda www.ft.com/content/fea2...

New DPC blog post: Notes from Every Object an Orchestra - a software preservation and emulation showcase www.dpconline.org/blog/notes-f... #DigiPres

Because the remaining folks are generally shallow shitheels, Google Android randomly decided wholescale to make every copied link switch to "share.google.com", a power they shouldn't have, and power they shouldn't take. Anyway, it can be unset, I suggest unsetting it.

🧵 I just read Eira Tansey's short article, "Environmental Impact and Digital Preservation and here are some key points: #archives #library 📚 www.dpconline.org/docs/dpc-tec...

Hey, doing this kind of human-clearly-not-in-the-loop AI transcription is a complete shirking of our duties as historians, archivists, and allied professions when dealing with records of enslavement especially. If there are records that can be automated ethically, it’s certainly not these, full stop

How not to digitize, and then how not to use automated text recognition: an awful race to the low…

@aaru.app Your website seems to have gone? Is everything okay?

After our Games Preservation online event on the 12th March we have made the full day of recordings available on YouTube. You can find the full playlist of recordings here:

New blog post: Casting Wide

This new episode [EN] of #code4thought is all about digital data, data loss, data decay & data recovery. You will hear from 5 experts in the field, T Ries, N Bonde Thystrup, K Mackinnon, L Sastoque-Pabon & A Jackson. Out now on your podcast app, YouTube, codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

It was a joy to be invited onto the @code4thought.bsky.social podcast to talk about Making Data Last: www.dpconline.org/news/code-fo... #DigiPres

Let's go! Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Protect the NHS. join.greenparty.org.uk

Just a reminder that next week my lab is hosting its 15th anniversary celebration. You can join us via Zoom (or in-person if you live in the Portland area). Here is the invitation with the registration information. Please join us!

This looks like a fun (Zoomable) event next week, celebrating 15 years of the Electronic Literature Lab https://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/ell/2026/04/04/celebrating-15-years/ (time-zone checker […]

New blog post: Tools, Practices & People

@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