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...
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You're definitely in scope, it's a case of whether one of the curators tagged you in, or the geolocator maybe (if you're hosted in the UK). They are still crawling, it's 'only' access that's down. You could drop them a line and ask?
They will almost certainly be archiving it already, under non-print legal deposit, via the UK Web Archive. If they had the resources to recover from the BL cyberattack, you could check this yourself, and with your permission UKWA could make it open access.
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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 dtc-wsuv.org/wp/ell/2026/04/04/celebr... (time-zone checker […]
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
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
...with thanks to @pimoroni.com for making such a lovely little device.
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).
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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...
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?
Brewster Kahle stands in front of a row of servers at the Internet Archive.
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...
