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...

🎉 Happy 25th anniversary, #JPEG2000! 🎉 The #DPC is hosting an open event today to celebrate this influential standard. We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Robert Buckley as keynote, plus a set of excellent case studies. Read more at bit.ly/jpeg2000 Image copyright: jpeg.org

It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

🎉 The DPC Members Discussion List turns 25! 🎉A quarter-century of #digitalpreservation questions, ideas, and community. Read our short anniversary blog 👇 buff.ly/aoJsfkV

Does anyone remember an MIT Media Lab(?) project called Immersion(?), which let you input your email account and showed you your network of contacts via the to/from metadata? It's gone--but does something like it still exist? (Asking for teaching, TIA!)

new British Library digital preservation policy www.bl.uk/stories/blog... "The policy is built around 4 interdependent principles that shape the BL approach to digital preservation: pragmatism, consistency, risk awareness, and sustainability." via Maureen Pennock #DigiPres #iPres25 #wdpd25

Help your colleagues grasp the stakes. The new #BitList includes especially tailored messages for research and academic sectors. Use them to advocate for preserving data, reproducibility, and research integrity👉 buff.ly/HLHuXIw #WDPD2025 #WhyPreserve #ChampionDigipres #advocacyTool

In belated celebration of World Digital Preservation Day, I'm throwing a "What's new with Apache Tika/Office hours" meetup: November 13, noon EST. Everyone interested in files is welcome to join! #ApacheTika #wdpd2025 #digipres #fileForensics #reverseEngineering www.meetup.com/apache-tika-...

First day of #iPRES2025 is done—what a fantastic start! 🎉 Thrilled to reconnect with the #digitalpreservation community. As Tūī (Platinum) Sponsor, we're proud to support this week. If you're at iPRES, visit the DPC table. We'd love a chat! buff.ly/plAsyaB

Help me turn the State Library of Victoria's digitised maps into data! https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/ (bit of a soft launch, so let me know if you see any errors in the documentation...)

So you joined PSF (Python Software Foundation) as a supporting member because they gave up money for the sake of inclusion. Great! Donated? That's great too! I'd also encourage you to look at The Carpentries and give them some money. They did the same thing. And they do good work! carpentries.org

I remember that @carpentries.carpentries.org withdrew a $1.5M proposal that had been recommended for funding in June, for the same reason. carpentries.org/blog/2025/06... They link out in their post to Grant General Conditions language but I do not know if that is current.

When searching for it, the AI overview seems to know more about the Open Fixed-layout Document (OFD) format than the search results! I'm guessing this is because the AI version is essentially translating Chinese sources that the search isn't showing me? #digipres

Fuming here. I *really* wanted to go to this event on Thursday, about the history of CD ripping. But I can't, because I have to do dialysis. So frustrating. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

The UK Government Web Archive is one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, with 25+ years of digital material published by the government. We were glad to join The National Archives in hosting a user workshop. Thanks to all participants! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

We’re excited too! And yes the hashtag is #ipres2025 😀

Here's your chance to learn about DROID, a powerful digital preservation tool! #digipres #archives #DigitalPreservation www.dpconline.org/events/event...

This exhibition and the associated events look awesome! I won't be able to make it unfortunately, but I hope some of you can! Digital Ghosts exhibition at Inspace (5–16 Nov, Wed-Sun, 10:00-17:00) https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/digital-ghosts/ Opening Night and Panel Discussion on 6 Nov (18:00–20:00) […]

I have read through the new OCLC blog post about AI in archives (hangingtogether.org/exploring-ai...) and liveblogged my response over on Mastodon. Overall, it really doesn't feel like they consulted with archivists or took our expertise seriously. Some highlights:

That’s a wrap on the 2025 No Time to Wait Conference! A huge thank you to everyone who made it possible, from our incredible speakers to the delegates who joined us both in person and virtually from around the globe. 🌍 💻 @nttw.bsky.social @mediaarea.net

Day 2 of #nttw9 is resuming soon this afternoon @NLIreland, join us online at mediaarea.net/s/nttw9stream 💻👋

Good morning from #nttw9! Looking forward to a packed day of presentations... Go see the live stream on http://www.youtube.com/c/MediaAreaNetOfficial More info at https://mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait9

Tips for Bakers: Preparing Your Tool Demo for the Great Digital Preservation Bake Off at #iPRES2025 www.ipres2025.nz/post/tips-fo...

This story is just in time to drum up interest for the upcoming #ipres2025 conference @ipres2025 where @makethecatwise is also a presenter. #digipres

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

Then: the office of the future will be paperless Now: keep paper records

Archives in the news! www.bbc.com/future/artic... Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social #archives #digipres

Great article by the BBC featuring one of our fabulous #ipres2025 presenters! 🙌 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Great publicity for #digipres work...and always nice to see Leontien's floppy disk jumpers too! www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week the big news was not Taylor Swift's new album, but that @jennymitcham.bsky.social has set up an account on Blue Sky. Highly recommend. What's on your desk today Jen? #digipres

Do come along to our October #DPClinic session to hear all about this fabulous project and the training materials they have created. The session is free for anyone to sign up for and more info can be found here: www.dpconline.org/events/event...

Paging #digitalpreservation and #databases. #digipres

Looking for easy to understand #digitalpreservation training resources? Join our next #DPClinic on Tuesday 14 Oct! The resources produced by the 'Catalyzing African Community Archives for Social Good' project are second to none and of particular relevance to community groups 👉🏼 buff.ly/nkjf06E

Highly recommend joining digipres.club! Misty and the moderators that help her do a great job of running a chill and interesting place free from all the annoying ads and algorithms of the commercial social media options.

Folks in digital preservation looking for a chill place to hang out off here - I run a digipres mastodon instance, digipres.club. I try to keep it running well and low stress. All are welcome.

The NDSA Digital Preservation conference is next week! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ndsa-digip... #digipres

@dri.ie are hosting a virtual coffee morning Wed 8 Oct at 10.00am all about @ipres2025.bsky.social This is a great chance to hear people from the Irish DigiPres community discuss highlights from previous years and what they're looking forward to at this year's conference dri.ie/events/dri-c...

Hey digipres folks! Any of you know any good near-duplicate identification tools? Right now I'm mostly focused on images (University photographer files) but I'm interested in any type of content if you've got a favorite! GUIs preferred but I know enough Python to make a menace of myself as well