#WDPD2025 hashtag - Bluesky

4 months ago

The sun has set on Hawaii and Rarotonga and it’s time to bring the curtain down on World Digital Preservation Day 2025 #WDPD2025

Read our last blog of the Day by #DPC's Executive Director @williamkilbride.bsky.social buff.ly/UADKwoC

Thanks amazing #digitalpreservation community for a GREAT Day🎉

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@tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

The sun has set on Hawaii and Rarotonga and so it’s time to bring the curtain down on World Digital Preservation Day 2025 #WDPD2025

📣 Read our last blog of the Day here by #DPC's Executive Director William Kilbride 📣 […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

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Till Grallert

4 months ago

Original post on digitalcourage.social

This week I have been digging around in the #InternetArchive looking for digitised Arabic periodicals. With a bit of #Rstats and far too many hours with #XSLT and #TEI/XML spent on identifying titles based on the very patchy metadata provided by uploaders, there are quite some exciting finds […]

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Artefactual Systems

@artefactual.com

4 months ago

Happy World Digital Preservation Day! Today, and everyday, we celebrate digital preservation and digital sovereignty. This years theme of “Why Preserve” could not feel more fitting. Our Chief Archivist had the opportunity to share a few w...

Happy World Digital Preservation Day!

Head over to our site to check out our post about #WDPD2025

Seize the means of preservation!

www.artefactual.com/post/happy-w...

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Churchill Archives Centre

@chuarchives.bsky.social

4 months ago

David, our Conservator, cleaning the surface of the floppy disk.

A floppy disk support frame printed using 3D printers at the Bill Brown Creative Workshops at Churchill College.

A representation of the data read from the floppy disk after cleaning.

🎉 Happy World Digital Preservation Day!

💾 From 3D printing to cleaning, collaborations between the Archives Centre and Churchill College have been vital to rescuing data from the floppy disks we look after in our collections.

🔗 Read more in our new blog: buff.ly/HQ3AOMF

#wdpd2025

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Jez 🍞🌹:heart_autistic_pride:

@petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

Data rescue for World Digital Preservation Day 2025 Today, Thursday 6 November 2025 if I actually manage to finish and publish this today, is World Digital Preservation Day so I thought I would try and get a blog post out about some work I’ve been doing to rescue at-risk data. I’ve briefly mentioned this in my post about Library of Congress Subject Headings but not in much detail. The project is Safeguarding Research & Culture and I got involved back in March or April when Henrik reached out on social media looking for someone with library & metadata experience to contribute. I said that I wasn’t a Real Librarian but I’d love to help if I could, and now here we are. The concept is simple: download public datasets that are at risk of being lost, and replicate them as widely as possible to make them hard to destroy, though obviously there’s a lot of complexity buried in that statement. When the Trump administration first took power, there were a lot of people around the world worried about this issue and wanting to help, so while there are a number of institutions & better resourced groups doing similar things, we aim to complement them by mobilising grassroots volunteers. Downloading data isn’t always straightforward. It may be necessary to crawl an entire website, or query a poorly-documented API, or work within the constraints of rate-limiting so as not to overload an under-resourced server. That takes knowledge and skill, so part of the work is guiding and mentoring new contributors and fostering a community that can share what they learn and proactively find and try out new tools. We also need people to be able to find and access the data, and volunteers to be able to contribute their storage to the network. We distribute data via the venerable BitTorrent protocol, which is very good at defeating censorship and getting data out to as many peers as possible as quickly as possible. To make those torrents discoverable, our dev team led by the incredible Jonny have built a catalogue of dataset torrents, playfully named SciOp. That’s built on well-established linked data standards like DCAT, the Data Catalogue Vocabulary, so the metadata is standardised and interoperable, and there’s a public API and a developing commandline client to make it even easier to process and upload datasets. There are even RSS and RDF feeds of datasets by tag, size, threat status or number of seeds (copies) in the network that you can plug into your favourite BitTorrent client to automatically start downloading newly published datasets. There are even exciting plans in the works to make it federated via ActivityPub, to give us a network of catalogues instead of just a single one. We’re accidentally finding ourselves needing to push the state of the art in BitTorrent client implementations. If you’re familiar with the history of BitTorrent as a favoured tool for _ahem_ less-than-legal media sharing, it probably won’t surprise you that most current BitTorrent clients are optimised for working with single audio-visual streams of about 1 to 2½ hours in length. Our scientific & cultural data is much more diverse than that, and the most popular clients can struggle for various reasons. In many cases there are BEPs (BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals) to extend the protocol to improve things, but these are optimal features that most clients don’t implement. The collection of BEPs that make up “BitTorrent v2” is a good example: most clients don’t support v2 well, so most people don’t bother making v2-compatible torrents, but that means there’s no demand to implement v2 in the clients. We are planning to make a scientific-grade BitTorrent client as a test-bed for these and other new ideas. Myself I’m running one of a small number of “super” nodes in the swarm, with much more storage available than the average laptop or desktop, and often much better bandwidth too. That’s good, because some of our datasets run to multiple terabytes, plus to ensure new nodes can get started quickly we need to have some always-on nodes with most of the data available to others. Since BitTorrent is truly peer-to-peer, it doesn’t matter how many people have a copy of a given dataset, if none of them are online no-one else can access it. This is all very technically interesting, but communications, community, governance, policy, documentation, funding are also vitally important, and for us these are all works in progress. We need volunteers to help with all of this, but especially those less-technical aspects. If you’re interested in helping, please drop us a line at contact@safeguar.de, or join our community forum and introduce yourself and your interests. If you want to contribute but don’t feel you have the time or skills, well, to start with we’re more than happy to show you the ropes and help you get started, but as an alternative, I’m running one of those “super” nodes and you can contribute to my storage costs via GoFundMe: even a few quid helps. I currently have 3x 6TB hard drives with no space to mount them, so I’m currently in need of a drive cage to hold them and plug them into my server. Special shout-out also to our sibling project, the Data Rescue Project, who are doing amazing work on this and often send us requests for websites or complex datasets for our community to save. I’ve barely scratched the surface here, but I _really_ want to actually get this post out for WDPD so I’m going to stop here and hopefully continue soon!

I did it! Here's my post on @SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue and distributed #DigiPres for #WDPD2025! https://erambler.co.uk/blog/wdpd2025-data-rescue/

Shoutout to @lavaeolus & @jonny, plus @datarescueproject.org

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HathiTrust

@hathitrust.bsky.social

4 months ago

Honoring #WDPD2025 every single day at HathiTrust! We steward over 19 million digitized and preserved items on behalf of our 210 member libraries. #WhyPreserve? Stephen Abrams of @harvardlibrary.bsky.social brings it home. Check it out: buff.ly/SoPyrwD

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German Historical Institute Washington

@ghiwashington.bsky.social

4 months ago

Screenshot of the German-language landing page of the Citizen Archive Platform (CAP), https://citizenarchive.eu/de/

In honor of World Digital Preservation Day, please enjoy our short interview with Wolfram Dornik, head of the Graz (Austria) city archives, about the innovative Citizen Archive Platform they've developed: href.hypotheses.org/... #WDPD2025

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UCSF Industry Documents Library

@ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social

4 months ago

Graphic image of a person with long purple hair and a white t-shirt looking through a pair of binoculars. Image of the cover of The Global Bit List of Endangered Materials. Did You Know There is an endangered digital species list? Green grass along bottom edge of image.

Three binoculars on a green background. A screenshot of a section of The Digital Preservation Coalition's annually released "Bit List" of critically endangered digital species, featuring an entry for "Evidence in Court" including an orange seal reading "Critically Endangered." The Digital Preservation Coalition annually releases "The Bit List" of critically endangered digital species. The IDL collects documents form legal proceedings, a category on the list! Green grass along the bottom border of the image.

'Critically Endangered' is one of four classifications. The digital species are at a high risk of total loss and future accessibility is uncertain. Image of a drawn figure with long purple hair and a white shirt looking through a pair of binoculars. Four squares, each containing a different seal from 'The Bit List'. Green seal says "Lower Risk"; yellow seal says "Vulnerable"; orange seal says "Critically Endangered"; and red seal says "Practically extinct." The seals exemplify the four classiciations. Green grass along the bottom border of the image.

Happy World Digital Preservation Day! Why preserve? Did you know the Industry Documents Library has millions of documents that are considered an endangered digital species? To learn more, check out the @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy Global 'Bit List' of Endangered Digital Species. #WDPD2025

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4 months ago

🎉Rolling on with another #WDPD2025 blog🎉Gratz College discusses #WhyPreserve through access, preservation, and ownership, and launches the Grayzel Digital Platform TODAY! Read their blog here👉🏽 buff.ly/Gx0SbLI

#LetsCelebrate #digitalpreservation #WhyPreserve #DigitalPreservationCoalition #digipres

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4 months ago

Help your colleagues grasp the stakes. The new #BitList includes especially tailored messages for research and academic sectors. Use them to advocate for preserving data, reproducibility, and research integrity👉 buff.ly/HLHuXIw
#WDPD2025 #WhyPreserve #ChampionDigipres #advocacyTool

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4 months ago

🎉Rolling on with another #WDPD2025 blog🎉Gratz College discusses #WhyPreserve through access, preservation, and ownership, and launches the Grayzel Digital Platform TODAY! Read their blog here👉🏽 www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-alison-jo... […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

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4 months ago

Help your colleagues grasp the stakes. The new #BitList includes especially tailored messages for research and academic sectors. Use them to advocate for preserving data, reproducibility, and research integrity👉 […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

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4 months ago

🎉Don’t miss this #WDPD2025 blog — a new #WhyPreserve story🎉Sustainable digital preservation must make the case for why we preserve. This year’s theme is a great opportunity to explore what that means for individuals and organizations. Read Nancy MacGovern´s blog here👉🏿 buff.ly/3iurcXZ

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4 months ago

🎉Don’t miss this #WDPD2025 blog — a new #WhyPreserve story🎉Sustainable digital preservation must make the case for why we preserve. This year’s theme is a great opportunity to explore what that means for individuals and organizations. Read Nancy MacGovern´s […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

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4 months ago

The #BitList now includes messages especially tailored for media and entertainment, highlighting the risks to digital content and creative heritage. Share these messages to protect creative work and prevent digital cultural loss👉 buff.ly/HLHuXIw
#WDPD2025 #WhyPreserve #Digitalpreservation #advocacy

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@melindahaunton.bsky.social

4 months ago

The #BitList now includes messages especially tailored for media and entertainment, highlighting the risks to digital content and creative heritage. Share these messages to protect creative work and prevent digital cultural loss👉 […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

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Melinda Haunton

4 months ago

I have spent #WDPD2025 preparing feedback for applicants for UK Archive Service Accreditation. I think it remains true no applicant has ever had a report that didn't include actions to keep developing their digital preservation capacity/practice. But many services are well underway, great to see.

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William Kilbride

@williamkilbride.bsky.social

4 months ago

Well that's the Internet won for all time, thanks to te the Dutch Digital Heritage Band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Qf... #digitalpreservation #digipres #wdpd2025

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4 months ago

🎉New #WDPD2025 vlog just dropped🎉In this World Digital Preservation Day vlog, Kelly Stewart shares Artefactual Systems' reflections on the importance of digital preservation👉🏾 buff.ly/1tJbRVD 👀

#WhyPreserve #WDPD2025Vlog #LetsCelebrate #digitalpreservation #DigitalPreservationCoalition #digipres

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4 months ago

🎉New #WDPD2025 vlog just dropped🎉In this World Digital Preservation Day vlog, Kelly Stewart shares Artefactual Systems' reflections on the importance of digital preservation👉🏾 www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/vlog-artefactu... 👀

#WhyPreserve […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

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4 months ago

The new #BitList includes tailored messages especially for legal, judicial and law enforcement agencies—ready to share with your colleagues who need to understand what’s at stake. Use the sector messages to push for stronger #digitalpreservation👉 buff.ly/HLHuXIw

#WDPD2025 #WhyPreserve

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