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
It has been an honour and a pleasure 😊 Although no longer an Executive Board Member and a chair of the Good Practice Sub-Committee, I will definitely remain a friend and champion of the #DPC
[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 […]
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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 & […]
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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 […]
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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
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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