Help, #DigiPres folks: do you have a "deposit station" for digital content on external devices (HDD, USB, DVD, CD etc.)? If yes: 1. Desktop / Laptop? 2. Unix / Windows? 3. Offline / separate network? If offline, how do you update? 4. One or more antivirus programs? 5. Other recommendations? Thanks!

A new paper, "Securing the Future of Books: A Collaborative Guide to Preservation" outlines the challenges in preserving eBooks, such as infrastructure limitations, technological barriers and resource constraints, and explores potential solutions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I’ve recently tried @pdfcpu.bsky.social for validating my pile of 175K+ PDFs. It deemed 1762 files invalid, I’m trying to make sense of the results, which issues are the most critical? Is there a key/guide I can reference? github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcp... #digipres #digitalpreservation

PARADISEC digitises Pacific music recordings dating back decades in more than 1300 languages. www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... via @ABCaustralia

🌍 The #WDPD2025 logos are out now in multiple languages! Download yours here: buff.ly/udZTOpU and show your support for World Digital Preservation Day 2025 across your channels on 6 Thursday November 2025🎉 #DigitalPreservation #WDPD #Celebrations #freedownload #DPC #digipres #community

[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

Just registered for the "Shaping the Archives of Tomorrow" event, Sept 1–2 in Vienna. If you’re there too, let’s grab a coffee and chat! Archives, IIIF, annotation, digital humanities... or anything else at the intersection of libraries, archives, museums, and tech. 📍 www.icar-us.eu/en/english-d...

#DPC Members👋🏼 We are starting a Databases Special Interest Group! Join our launch meeting on August 13th at 15:00 UTC 🚀 This DPC member-exclusive forum will tackle key challenges to preserving databases and is your online space to sharing solutions. Join us […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Using ARK identifiers to simplify access to open data at the National Library of France arks.org/news/2025-07...

The ARK Alliance (arks.org) will convert its documentation practices to align with modern form ARKs, the most visible difference being removal of the slash ('/') at the end of "ark:/", a non-breaking change -- two ARKs that differ only in form are equivalent in perpetuity. arks.org/news/2025-07...

🌐💾 Preserve web history! #WebArchiving tools like @webarchive's Wayback Machine, @archiveis_ today (Tor-friendly 🔗), & @ghostarchive_org (🎥 dynamic content) ensure digital footprints stay intact. 📂✨ #LinkPermanence #DigitalPreservation #Internet web.archive.org archive.today ghostarchive.org

🚨 5 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY! The DPC is hiring two senior roles: → Head of Good Practice → Head of Workforce Development With staff already based in five different countries, the DPC welcomes applications from exceptional candidates around the world! Details & […] [Original post on digipres.club]

We are now experiencing 'permanent gaps in the global data corpus. In all these cases, coordinated actions could potentially have mitigated the scale of the data lost' www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Sharon McMeekin and Paul Wheatley are excited to announce the launch of their new training and consultancy firm, Preserve Together. Offering a range of services to help build your capacity and skills, we aim to support individuals and organizations in achieving their digital preservation goals [1/4]

📚 Join our #DPClinic on April 25th where John Gostick will discuss Cambridge University Libraries' approach to preservation infrastructure and worksflows! Register at […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Workshop: Web Archive Collections as Data #iipcwac25 glamlabs.io/checklist/

The slides for my #iipcWAC25 talk, "What You See No One Saw" are available at matkelly.com/presentation... #webarchiving

Ben Els from Luxembourg web archive discussing archiving social media of gov officials. Get them to export their own data. Motivation is everything!! #iipcwac25

László Tóth discusses his tool, warc-safe, at #iipcWAC25 for scanning WARC files for NSFW content: It takes a WARC, extracts recs, scans w/ ClamAV, and checks for NSFW content like nudity and pornographic content. It uses an AI that scans each image file. #webarchiving github.com/natliblux/wa...

#IIPCWAC25 Can we use AI + Web Archives to help departments retrieve their lost organisational memories? NOPE.

There’s always something happening in the world of digital preservation! Stay up to date with the latest news, community updates, projects, and upcoming events from the OPF: 📰 News: openpreservation.org/news/ 📅 Events: openpreservation.org/events/ #DigitalPreservation #OpenSource #JoinUs

Let's hear it for a collaborative community! #DPC Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) 3.0 is now available in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Japanese, and Turkish⁠⁠ - www.dpconline.org/news/ram-3-0... #digitalpreservation #digipres 📚

It’s #WebArchiveWednesday and Day 1 of #iipcWAC25 is about to begin! View the program and let us know what you’re looking forward to most: 👉 netpreserve.org/ga2025/progr... 👉 netpreserve.org/ga2025/works... @nettarkivet.bsky.social | #webarchiving

👋 anyone know of articles/blogs and/or has personal experience with: AI-bot scraper hinderung web archiving / web preservation let me know! #safeguardingresearch #digipres

A while back, I started putting together my own collection of utils & helpers for working with IIIF resources in JavaScript/TypeScript more easily. I released it under MIT license–and finally got around to writing a proper Readme! 🎉 Hoping that other find this useful, too! github.com/rsimon/cozy-...

DPC "Defining the Designated Community" (2023) doi.org/10.7207/twgn... mentioned by @criticalsenses.bsky.social in her #BDCAM25 presentation in the context of "Do the donors and depositors of the digital content have expectations about who the content is being preserved for?" #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 Another great presentation from @criticalsenses.bsky.social, this time about her "Future Audiences Decision Model", intended to help guide organisations in decision making, when selecting and preparing digital content for deposit into a memory institution

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs" Upcoming C2DH public exhibition Community-driven #DigitalPreservation * Sharing disk images * Use of emulators * Fan-made patches & engine recreations * Preservation is often decentralised & grassroots * Preservation vs Piracy

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs" Curatorial challenges: concept & narrative flow, target audience, games accessibility, nostalgic value Present games: emulation vs. old gaming console, gameplay relevance & contemporary significance (with a nod to @cdrom.ca's work) #DigitalPreservation

Last batch of stickers on the @dpc_chat desk at #bdcam25

#BDCAM25 "A history of the CD-ROM", a research project at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology done by Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) #DigitalHumanities www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/rese...

Starting the last day of #BDCAM25 with several presentations about CD-ROMs "Born-Digital Collections, Archives, History and Memory of CD-ROMs" "One of the only conferences where so many people are interested in a dead technology", as Valérie Schafer put it

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Expanding Computational Research of #BornDigital Collections" LLTDM-X (Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross Border) Project: preliminary guidance for #DigitalHumanities practitioners (text & data mining) in international research collaborations buildinglltdm.org/lltdmx/

#BDCAM25 A very important, but often forgotten point from Adrian Demleitner: "Preservation ( #DigitalPreservation ) is political"

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Expanding Computational Research of #BornDigital Collections" TIL from Valérie Schafer about #DataFeminism (data are not neutral or objective) & "Big Dick Data" data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/czq9dfs5...

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives & AI-based systems" #DigitalHumanities Climate Coalition Toolkit mentioned by @jwbaker.bsky.social sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit/

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives & AI-based systems" Report mentioned by @jfwinters.bsky.social 'Archives and the environment' 2023 zenodo.org/records/1006... #DigiPres

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks #DigitalPreservation through emulation for CD-ROM artworks @ Art Gallery NSW Challenges - Latency, lack of audio and visual synchronization - IP permissions from creators - EaaSI hosting resources Archiving Australian Media Arts - Community of Practice - Access over EaaSI

Mentioned in a #BDCAM25 Lightning talk: DLF's Levels of Access, a set of format-agnostic baseline practices for born-digital access - concrete & actionable recommendations for implementing according to their needs, resources & abilities osf.io/r5f78/ #DigitalPreservation

Mentioned just now in a #BDCAM25 Lightning talk: the @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy’s Rapid Assessment Model #DPCRAM, a #DigitalPreservation maturity modelling tool - enable rapid benchmarking of #DigiPres capability & facilitate continuous improvement over time www.dpconline.org/digipres/imp...

#BDCAM25 Anna Mladentseva & @ndkane.bsky.social presenting on the Collecting & Conservation Challenges for Mobile Apps V&A collects a 'core object' + any 'auxiliary objects' (designs, artefacts or documentation). Emulation as a #DigitalPreservation strategy: VirtualBox + Android x86 / Android SDK

#BDCAM25 Great presentation from @criticalsenses.bsky.social & colleagues at the Science Museum Group about the #DigitalPreservation of the Absolute Unit meme & first steps in the SGM #DigiPres programme (DigiPres policy & guidelines, Digital Asset Register, Digital Formats Complexity Scale etc.)

For those wanting to learn more about #PREMIS, the #DigiPres metadata dictionary & schema mentioned in the #BDCAM25 session on the #DigitalPreservation of complex (museum) digital objects www.loc.gov/standards/pr...

#BDCAM25 Bec BC & Jo Fleming (remote from Sidney): #DigitalPreservation of complex time-based artworks is like playing a game of Snakes & ladders - 1 step forward, 3 backwards Challenges: Obsolescence Technology-software, hardware Technical skills & budgets Artist intent Work can be displayed

Because I referenced it yesterday at #thedigitaluk, here is a contribution by Andreas Thalhammer on the management of #cooluris in support of superior knowledge graphing. Cool URIs for FAIR Knowledge Graphs https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.09237 #fair #scholarlygraph #persistence #uris […]

Starting day 2 of #BDCAM25 with a session on collecting & #DigitalPreservation of complex objects. What are "complex objects"? Very good question, with the usual #DigiPres answer "It depends". You might want to have a look at this thread for stronger opinions 😉 digipres.club/@BertrandCar...

#BDCAM25 "Looking back through opaque glasses - What born-digital archives can learn from analog" Keynote Lecture by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social, the Digital Curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks The Social Media Archive (SOMAR) is an initiative and data resource that tries to make social media data accessible and useful to researchers socialmediaarchive.org/pages/?page=...

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks Another #DigitalPreservation challenge - #archiving of translation technologies (both obsolete machines & software). Challenges: non-digital, digitized and born-digital tools, platformization of profession and practices, subscription-based services, AI, automation practices