From @internetarchive on Blsky : "How does #Wikipedia stay reliable? Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight explains how the #WaybackMachine helps preserve verifiable references when sources vanish from the web.

Full video youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU

#LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek
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#digitalpreservation #web

Join our #DPClinic on April 25th where John Gostick will discuss Cambridge University Libraries' approach to preservation infrastructure and worksflows!

Register at: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/484/-/dpclinic-april-preservation-infrastructure-and-workflows

All are welcome

"Almost two dozen repositories of research and public health data supported by the National Institutes of Health are marked for “review” under the Trump administration’s direction, and researchers and archivists say the data is at risk of being lost forever if the repositories go down.

“The problem with archiving this data is that we can’t,” Lisa Chinn, Head of Research Data Services at the University of Chicago, told 404 Media. Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency, and those agreements are carefully administered through a disclosure risk review process.

A message appeared at the top of multiple NIH websites last week that says: “This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.”
Repositories with the message include archives of cancer imagery, Alzheimer’s disease research, sleep studies, HIV databases, and COVID-19 vaccination and mortality data."

https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/

Long before Reddit threads and Discord servers, knowledge was passed around in plain text. textfiles.com, created by Jason Scott in the late 1990s, is a sprawling archive of text files from the BBS era—covering hacking, phreaking, anarchy, warez, conspiracy theories, and every oddball subculture that thrived on dial-up lines.

The site preserves a snapshot of digital rebellion and DIY culture, capturing the raw, unfiltered voice of early net denizens. It's not just nostalgia—it’s a vital historical record of how knowledge was shared when bandwidth was precious and curiosity was everything.

Still online and still growing, textfiles.com reminds us that the roots of digital freedom were written in monospace, passed hand to hand, and never meant to disappear.

@dpc_chat Technology Watch Guidance Note "Defining the Designated Community" (2023) http://doi.org/10.7207/twgn23-01 mentioned by @criticalsenses in her #BDCAM25 presentation "Digital Deposit Decision-Making: The Future Audiences Decision Model" especially in the context of the question "Do the donors and depositors of the digital content have expectations about who the content is being preserved for?" #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Curatorial challenges: concept & narrative flow, target audience, games accessibility (game play, interfaces, latency, authors’ rights, etc.), nostalgic value, balance between triple-A best-sellers & less obvious choices
How to present games: emulation vs. old gaming console, gameplay relevance & contemporary significance
"Piracy proof (sort of... LOL)"
(with a nod to @misty's work) #DigitalPreservation

Exciting news! We're thrilled to welcome the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) to the DPC as our newest Associate Member! Through their Digital Stewardship Network, COPPUL has shown incredible dedication to digital preservation across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
https://www.dpconline.org/news/new-members-of-the-dpc/coppul-joins-dpc #DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #Digipres #Community #JoinUs

#DOWARC is a domain ontology for the Semantic modelling of #WebArchiving artefacts, such as WARC and CDX files, and web archiving activities. It was created as a metadata tool to support more sustainable and accessible archiving and #DigitalPreservation practices, particularly with regard to issues engendered by intensive versioning activities, such as lack of context and rise in storage demands. https://github.com/DOWARC/dowarc #BDCAM25

#BDCAM25 Huellas Incómodas (Uncomfortable Footprints) is a #DigitalPreservation initiative that works to document, contextualise and generate a public legacy of collective memory and the right to truth, based on #feminist social struggles in #LatinAmerica. The project arises from the ephemeral nature of expressions of protest in the physical and digital public space, which is what we call Footprints, and intervenes against the urge to erase them. https://idrhku.org/huellasincomodas/

As with other aspects of #DigitalPreservation, Rosario Rogel-Salazar's & Alan Colín-Arce's #BDCAM25 presentation "Latin American Feminist Organizations in the Archived Websites" shows the huge divide between the Global South & the Global North in terms of #WebArchiving, especially websites presenting radical ideas or those for black, migrant, & indigenous women

Archivists working in digital preservation are awesome people. Knitters are also awesome people. It‘s most awesome when both groups come together in one person at Cambridge University.

These patterns are beautiful, I want all of them, and I just wish I was a better knitter.

#digitalpreservation
#knitting

https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521

Brilliant floppy disk badges at the #BDCAM25 Conference #DigitalPreservation #DigiPres

Great news #DPC #CAT fans! Version 2 of our #DigitalPreservation Competency Framework, and updated companion resources, are now available on the DPC Website. Read more and find links to the updated resource here: https://www.dpconline.org/news/dpcfv2-now-available

"According to Graham, based on the big jump in page views he's observed over the past two months, the Internet Archive is drawing many more visitors than usual to its services — journalists, researchers and other inquiring minds. Some want to consult the archive for information lost or changed in the purge, while others aim to contribute to the archival process.

"There's a groundswell of support for the Internet Archive because of the dramatic shift that's going on in parts of the government web infrastructure that you wouldn't imagine would change," said Brewster Kahle, the founder and current director of the Internet Archive. "People are coming and rallying behind us — by using it, by pointing at things, helping organize things, by submitting content to be archived — data sets that are under threat or have been taken down."

Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at Harvard University who likened the purge to "a digital book burning" in a February interview with NPR's Ailsa Chang, is one of them. She's teamed up with other scientists to try to preserve federal health data that has recently disappeared from government websites. She helped develop a list of terms to send to the Internet Archive to aid the search and preservation effort.

"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," she told NPR."

#USA #Trump #InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #DigitalArchiving #WayBackMachine

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump

Last week in Leiden, Brewster Kahle was presented with the 2024 ProjectUil by the Dutch Wikipedia community. He explained how the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has helped fix millions of broken links, ensuring citations on Wikipedia remain valid and accessible across multiple language editions.

https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2025/03/kahle-receives-projectuil-from-wikipedia/

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #OpenKnowledge #Wikipedia

Exciting news! The Digital Preservation Coalition's Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) 3.0 is now available in multiple languages! The tool has been translated into Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Japanese, and Turkish thanks to our amazing volunteer translators⁠⁠.

This digital preservation maturity modeling tool helps organizations quickly benchmark their #digitalpreservation capabilities!⁠ Read more on https://www.dpconline.org/news/ram-3-0-translations-now-available #DPC #RAM #DigitalPreservation #Coalition

Exciting news! The DigiPres Learning Resources Portal is now officially launched - a new community resource where #DigitalPreservation folks can discover & share professional development opportunities! Find (or share!) your next learning adventure at https://digipres-learning-resources.netlify.app/

Unplanned #DigitalPreservation advocacy moment during a radio interview about an new online exhibition we launched.

Archivist Katherine C'Ailceta totally nailed it!

Done as part of a radio interview by RNZ Concert host, Bryan Crump, about the NZ Symphony Orchestra online exhibition

Off-air recording: https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/three-to-seven/audio/2018980311/nzso-s-history-at-your-fingertips

Online exhibition: https://www.archives.govt.nz/discover-our-stories/the-new-zealand-symphony-orchestra-nzso

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