5) This has been an excerpt from my keynote at #BDCAM25, a portion of which will be in an essay of my upcoming booook!

View looking up at the central portion of the Senate House building at UCL. It is an imposing and huge art deco brick building, that i have been told looks like Batman's Gotham City

I have just returned from a very exciting and whirlwind trip to London. Work has been very stressy (and I had to miss conference days to clean data so the stress abided!) but getting the chance to keynote #BDCAM25 was intimidatingly well worth it.

Such a good time at #BDCAM25 conference this week. Fantastic to see the global turnout, and the range of important work being done. Had so much fun training an AI model, learning about oral history work, community archives, and some e-lit/video games I now need to play!

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

Call for Proposals is Open DLF Forum 2025 in Denver Colorado

for the #BDCAM25 crew (live and online)-- the Digital Library Federation (US based) put out their call for papers for their 2025 conference. Proposals are due 14th April forum2025.diglib.org/posts/call-f...

#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

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Curatorial challenges: concept & narrative flow, target audience, games accessibility, nostalgic value
Present games: emulation vs. old gaming console, gameplay relevance & contemporary significance
(with a nod to @cdrom.ca's work) #DigitalPreservation

Stickers on DPC tartan

Last batch of stickers on the @dpc_chat desk at #bdcam25

A history of the CD-ROM (CD-Hist) A research project at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology.

#BDCAM25 "A history of the CD-ROM", a research project at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology done by Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) #DigitalHumanities www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/rese...

Starting the last day of #BDCAM25 with several presentations about CD-ROMs "Born-Digital Collections, Archives, History and Memory of CD-ROMs"
"One of the only conferences where so many people are interested in a dead technology", as Valérie Schafer put it

Speakers at a PowerPoint screen

PowerPoint with DRI and title of paper

@dri.ie peeps presenting this morning at #BDCAM25 and talking about the Asylum Archive. You can browse the collection here: Vukašin Nedeljković. Asylum Archive: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

Looking forward to presenting shortly at #BDCAM25, remotely, on our work with artists’ Amiga disks from the 1980s. Wishing I could be there in person to meet you all and hang out!

LLTDM-X About the Project Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross Border (“LLTDM-X”) is a project supporting research and analysis to address law and policy issues faced by U.S. digital humanit…

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Expanding Computational Research of #BornDigital Collections"
LLTDM-X (Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross Border) Project: preliminary guidance for #DigitalHumanities practitioners (text & data mining) in international research collaborations buildinglltdm.org/lltdmx/

#BDCAM25 A very important, but often forgotten point from Adrian Demleitner: "Preservation ( #DigitalPreservation ) is political"

6. The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves Principle #6 of Data Feminism is to Consider Context. Data feminism asserts that data are not neutral or objective. They are the products of unequal social relations, and this context is essential for...

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Expanding Computational Research of #BornDigital Collections"
TIL from Valérie Schafer about #DataFeminism (data are not neutral or objective) & "Big Dick Data" data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/czq9dfs5...

Digital Cultural Heritage Archives - University of London Press

The University of London Press is now accepting for new proposals for short-form books (20,000–30,000 words) on Digital Cultural Heritage on themes of use, access, value(s) and ephemerality uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #BDCAM25

Introduction The Digital Humanities Climate Coalition toolkit for Climate Justice in humanities research.

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives & AI-based systems"
#DigitalHumanities Climate Coalition Toolkit mentioned by @jwbaker.bsky.social sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit/

Archives and the environment report A report generated from the presentations and conversations that took place during the workshop 'Archives and the environment: an experimentation workshop' organised by the School of Advanced Study, U...

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives & AI-based systems"
Report mentioned by @jfwinters.bsky.social 'Archives and the environment' 2023 zenodo.org/records/1006... #DigiPres

Loved this talk. Thanks for sharing Heather 🤗 #BDCAM25

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
#DigitalPreservation through emulation for CD-ROM artworks @ Art Gallery NSW
Challenges
- Latency, lack of audio and visual synchronization
- IP permissions from creators
- EaaSI hosting resources
Archiving Australian Media Arts
- Community of Practice
- Access over EaaSI

Levels of Born-Digital Access The Levels of Access provide a set of format-agnostic baseline practices for born-digital access, laying out concrete and actionable recommendations that individual institutions can consider implement...

Mentioned in a #BDCAM25 Lightning talk: DLF's Levels of Access, a set of format-agnostic baseline practices for born-digital access - concrete & actionable recommendations for implementing according to their needs, resources & abilities osf.io/r5f78/ #DigitalPreservation

"More product, less process" seems like a good lesson to take away for many areas of library, archive and cultural heritage work, not just the born digital #bdcam25

ARCHIVE | Cities In Fiction An archival project to locate real-world places in fiction.

Great "Cities in Fiction" talk at #BDCAM25
A public, reader-led archive mapping South Asian cities in literature

Shows how fiction carries memory, emotion, resistance.
We need more archives like this

🔗 www.citiesinfiction.com/archive

#DigitalArchives #SouthAsia #MemoryJustice

Rapid Assessment Model (DPC RAM) - Digital Preservation Coalition

Mentioned just now in a #BDCAM25 Lightning talk: the @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy’s Rapid Assessment Model #DPCRAM, a #DigitalPreservation maturity modelling tool - enable rapid benchmarking of #DigiPres capability & facilitate continuous improvement over time www.dpconline.org/digipres/imp...

I just asked @jfwinters.bsky.social & it seems that every single #BDCAM25 badge has content on it & sometimes you can see what it is on the the label under the name. Jane's has Windows 3.1,, there are plenty others (games, piano music, even weird GIFsetc)

I just asked @jfwinters.bsky.social & it seems that every single #BDCAM25 badge has content on it & sometimes you can see what it is on the the label under the name. Jane's has Windows 3.1,, there are plenty others (games, piano music, even weird GIFsetc)

#BDCAM25 Anna Mladentseva & @ndkane.bsky.social presenting on the Collecting & Conservation Challenges for Mobile Apps
V&A collects a 'core object' + any 'auxiliary objects' (designs, artefacts or documentation). Emulation as a #DigitalPreservation strategy: VirtualBox + Android x86 / Android SDK

#BDCAM25 Great presentation from @criticalsenses.bsky.social & colleagues at the Science Museum Group about the #DigitalPreservation of the Absolute Unit meme & first steps in the SGM #DigiPres programme (DigiPres policy & guidelines, Digital Asset Register, Digital Formats Complexity Scale etc.)

Powerful #BDCAM25 talk: "Yesterday Once More" by Yue Qiu & Jiazhi Chen, on how digital platforms (Douyin, Bilibili) help rebuild Beichuan’s memory after the 2008 quake.

Digital memory ≠ superficial.

“Sharing without sharing” (Hoskins) resonates globally.

#WebArchiving #DigitalMemory