Phew, I would say I enjoyed peer reviewing for iPRES. But I wouldn't want to say I'd like to do any more conference paper reviewing for quite some time

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

I'm not sure how I feel about "blending the nostalgic soul of the 80s with the peak convenience of today..."
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Retired Sheffield photographer demands answers over pension Retired photographer Ian Stocks says he has been on an

Archives / Records Management in the news

BBC News - Retired Sheffield photographer demands answers over pension - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

School seems to also really dislike biographies.

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

Libraries in the news

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

i love how so much of digital accessibility is just reaffirming what librarians have been trying to tell you for 1000 years:

METADATA IS IMPORTANT, ACTUALLY

I've loved my time with #ArchivesWM! We're a friendly, supportive group and are looking forward to welcoming some new trustees later this year.

A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks 📜
www.popsci.com/technology/f...

My own typo made me chuckle! Yes, that's the one

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Representation of Archives in the media:

Watched Madame Le Blanc last night and she visited an Archive. The Archivist insisted on nitrate gloves for touching paper records (better than white gloves... I guess), and then brought over a coffee to the desk with the papers on.

So no blue skies on the Horizon?! I think I may be influenced by the current weather cycle...

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Procrastination has led to some forced weather metaphors in a proposed iPRES paper. I take themes (Horizon in this case) a bit too literal and need to just ✍️ something interesting!

Really looking forward to this!

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

YouTube’s earliest video has been deemed museum-worthy | CNN London’s V&A museum has added YouTube’s first video to its collection, displaying 2005’s “Me at the zoo” in one of its galleries.

Archives in the news

V&A Museum acquires YouTube’s earliest video from 2005 | CNN share.google/anY7B1TTvlMD...

#archives #digitalpreservation

At least it was an opportunity for highlighting in print where money should be spent: properly financing the ongoing work of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social

‘Like an electrical gong bath!’ The Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezers Redditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music. We take a visit to the back aisles

#noiselife www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Nazi letters reveal paper restorers’ role in compiling Holocaust ‘hitlist’ Exclusive: Research uncovers programme to make centuries-old records legible to detect people’s ancestry

"A British historian has uncovered a Europe-wide programme in the 1930s and 1940s in which restorers repaired and cleaned historic church and civil records, making them legible so that the Nazis could detect anyone with Jewish ancestry." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Stone, parchment or laser-written glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but glass storage developed by Microsoft could last millennia

Archives (of the future?) in the news:

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#Digitalpreservation #archives #data

The Cyberattack That Exposed The Fragility Of Digital Heritage Saturday 28 October 2023 is a date that will live long in the memory of staff at the British Library. As they arrived for work that day, they encountered

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...

I've not seen this in a public system, but certainly in-house DAMs I've seen explicit warnings on content. You had to click on the image to see it (to acknowledge you've seen the warning and also reduce the risk of accidentally seeing upsetting imagery while scrolling).

A person sits at a desk in a dark room making high resolution photographic copies on a computer.

CLOSING NEXT WEEK 🚨
Send us your feedback on The National Archives’ digital capacity building strategy, Our Digital Century, that ends this year! Your responses will help us evaluate the programme and ensure future initiatives meet the sector’s needs: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/OISX44/ (1/2)

Would a BL library card give you access?

What I also wonder about these is whether the "exclusivity rights" have expired on a project that's over ten years old, and can the UK parliamentary Archives give you access themselves?

The @ads-update.bsky.social Archeology Data service (ads) are looking to recruit a Digital Archives Assistant.

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Managed to just send a message that just said hell. Not hello. Just hell. To someone I wanted to give professional advice to but haven't spoken to in 20+ years. On a public forum.

A Roman Mosaic. Trust us. This is a wolf. It may look like Batman after he's fallen asleep at a party and his "mates" have "decorated" him, but it's a wolf.

Morning!
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