Question for #Archivists and #DigiPres. Is software a 'record'?

One more flight to Joint Technical Symposium 2026 #JTS2026

Archives in the news V&A Museum acquires YouTube’s earliest video from 2005 | CNN share.google/anY7B1TTvlMD... #archives #digitalpreservation

Archives (of the future?) in the news: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #Digitalpreservation #archives #data

Paraphrasing Christobel Underwood of the Australian National University's lightning talk: How to prioritise audio visual material for preservation 1. Magnetic tape!! 2. Reacting to a disaster and the damage caused 3. Items of historical or cultural significance 4. User Requests #iPRES2025

spreadsheets are still the undisputed champion of digital preservation #digipres #ipres2025

Sobering slide from Kari James about data loss disasters #ipres2025

So great to hear about the use of #AusEaaSI / #EaaSI in Australia. Hearing how it is also really useful for raising awareness of digital preservation is validating. Reminds me of my post on Digital Patinas www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/th... #ipres2025

"[I often find that after installing e.g. a version of flash for one artifact, I just search for it for use with other artifacts]" Paraphrased quote from Bryony Cavallaro @ the State Library of New South Wales (I think) #ipres2025 - So great to here the benefits of #EasSI being realised #AusEaaSI

More gratification - so great to hear of people using @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social for digital preservation signature metadata. I just heard mention of using the Wikidata signature file in Siegfried! #ipres2025

#DigiPres #FileFormatRisk

#iPRES2025 How many formats are there? @anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question. Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)

#ipres2025 Ooph, this hit home. Rosslyn Metz from Emory university's keynote gives a lot of food for thought. Is openness always good? Should we reconsider our openness in a world focused on exploitation?

Thank you Mick Crouch, Master of Ceremony extraordinaire for #iPRES2025 Quick Fire 1. @dppig.bsky.social

As a side point of his keynote, Simon explained that the licencing of .tv domain is a good revenue generator for Tuvalu. Wiki tells me it was 8.4% of Tuvaluan government revenue in 2019!

Great turnout for the “Hands on with @iiif.bsky.social: A Pillar in Digital Preservation” at the @ipres2025.bsky.social conference in Wellington, NZ, 17 people from multiple institutions and countries #iPRES2025 /

Preparing to co-host the first #iPresRadio Europe/Africa session later today. #iPres2025 attendees, were there any stand outs from Day 1 you would like to share?

😍 We love to see it!

#digipres in 3. 1. I am attending #iPRES2025 virtually. Sad to miss the buzz of in person attendance and visit NZ, but I am excited to help host some of the Europe/Africa iPRES Radio broadcasts. To listen in, follow the link: www.dpconline.org/events/event...

We're always amazed by the creativity and talent of the iPRES community! 😍 One of our clever attendees, Ima Oduok, has created cross stitch patterns from the #iPRES2025 logo! 🪡 You can download the patterns here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

👋 #iPRES2025 kicks off next week, and we are so excited to welcome everyone to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington and online! Learn about how tikanga (customs) and kawa (protocols) of Te Ao Māori (the Māori world view) are woven through this year's conference. www.ipres2025.nz/post/tikanga...

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

And we conclude a great day with a great tour, a behind-the-scenes highlighting the @IFI_Dub Irish Film Archive's collections and preservation practices at #nttw9

Learn about the #iPRES2025 Regional Impact Committee, and check out some of the conference sessions related to digital preservation knowledge and practice across Aotearoa, Australia, and the Pacific. www.ipres2025.nz/post/the-reg...

Workshop day is off @NLIreland with “Extracting file metadata using Python, MediaInfo and other open-source tools” by Joanna White! #nttw9

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

If you would like your own: digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

We know that many of you will be starting your journey to Wellington soon, so we’ve included a bunch of travel tips in the #iPRES2025 newsletter, as well as info about the conference app, tips for presenters, how to sign up for iPRES Radio, and more! Have a read at www.ipres2025.nz/post/ipres-2...

Didn’t think we’d see incompetence at this scale. The backup of the on-prem data center for the Korean government was in the same location as the primary one. Any basically qualified tech professional knows that this is no resilient backup: and now all data is lost…

The wait is over! The #iPRES2025 Programme is finally here! 🎉 This year features a dynamic schedule with 7 parallel tracks: 3 hybrid, 3 in person, and 1 virtual. View the high-level programme as a PDF, or check out the programme spreadsheet for session times and details. www.ipres2025.nz/programme

Final #LIANZA2025 keynote. Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.

Final #LIANZA2025 keynote. Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.

From Wikisource to public library - pipeline from scans to lendable books. Mike Dickison, Wikipedian @adzebill.bsky.social #LIANZA2025 #Wikisource

Countering misinformation & disinformation. Mandy Henk, Dark Times Academy. Update 2025: Things are not great and the problem is worsening. #LIANZA2025 #misinformation #disinformation

A trinity of freedoms at risk. Mod: Marlies Zyp-van der Laan Panelists 1. Louise LaHatte, LIANZA Standing Committee on Freedom of Information 2. Mandy Hager, Author 3. Peter Dowling, Oratia Media #LIANZA2025 #FreedomofInformation #FreedomofExpression #FreedomtoPublish #FreedomtoRead #Censorship

Verifying sources: were whales keeping Wellingtonians awake in the 1800s? - Kim McClintock, Librarian, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Tentative conclusion: Tasmania/Australia ad the possible origin of the story. Changed to Wellington later. See blog post for full story. #LIANZA2025

"By 2035, all bets are off. The jobs most disrupted will be the highest paid and skilled." - Melissa Clark-Reynolds. Keynote: Turning chaos into opportunities. Gen Z might be doing jobs that we cannot even imagine. Get a good general education. Love the arts. #LIANZA2025 #AI #Futurist

A fascinating talk yesterday at #LIANZA2025 by Amy Watling on Turnbull's oral history collections, 95% restricted—"my voice is on this little cassette, and there it will stay"—and how one can nevertheless organise remote access in a virtual reading room.

For the LIANZA conference next week I only have ten minutes to talk about @wikisource.bsky.social so I make a little zine—or perhaps a wikitract—to hand out.

Staggering statistic reported by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru ... Not one of the 78 kiwi Local Government Councils have addressed Māori Data Governance or Sovereignty #TooHardBasket #LIANZA2025

Aotearoa New Zealand needs to grow a #NationOfReaders & more so than ever in the digital age ... We also get great value om having a Reading Ambassador & Kate De Goldi is an excellent Te Awhi Rito #LIANZA2025

Keynote: Stronger together: Connected national libraries - Rachel Esson, National Librarian NZ, and Dr Marie-Louise Ayres, Director-General National Libraries of Australia #LIANZA2025

Libraries leading the AI future: empowering learning and AI Literacy. Sadia Afroze, PhD student at VuW. Interviewed librarians. Taught ChatGPT to students to generate keywords for further database searches. #LIANZA2025 #AI #UniversityLibrarians

Kēmu: Building a board game collection - Grisham Langton, Wellington City Libraries. Very successful. Launch with no advertising. 3 days on the shelves, lots of reserves means it's also in circulation. #LIANZA2025 #library #notjustbooks #boardgames

NOW: Transforming access - The journey to our new virtual reading room. Amy Watling, Team Leader Research Services, National Library of New Zealand and Archives New Zealand. #LIANZA2025 #librarian #virtualreadingroom

NOW: Māori AI & Data Sovereignty - embedding values in tech. Keynote by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru. According to #WAI262 and #TAI262 claimants, Artificial Intelligence is listed as one of the three catastrophises Māori face in 2024. #AI #DataSovereignty #LIANZA2025 #libraryconference #library

I’m applying to grad schools for my MLIS. I need more librarian and archivist moots. Where are you?? #librarian #archivist #archives #librarians

Looking forward to have my eyes open as I attend my first library conference #LIANZA2025. Anyone else here from LIANZA? First up, LIANZA president opening remarks.