Today we are celebrating World Digital Preservation Day! Why do we preserve? The UCSF Industry Documents Library is made up of millions of documents that are considered an endangered digital species. Check out the Digital Preservation Coalition's Global 'Bit List' of Endangered Digital Species.
#WDPD2025 #digitalpreservation #archives #digitalarchives #ucsf
#DigitalArchives
NOLA: ‘This has been wonderful:’ With new grant, the Louisiana Digital Library continues preservation work. “That library, the Louisiana Digital Library, is an extensive online archive of more than 350,000 items from libraries, museums and other repositories across the state. Accessible for free to anyone, it includes manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, oral histories and other items. It’s […]
🎉 Oh joy, another programmer reminiscing about the "transformative" blog posts that "shaped" him—because apparently, enlightenment comes from revisiting tired software essays. 😴 Who knew the key to #programming nirvana was digging through digital cobwebs of the early 2000s? 🙄
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/software-essays-that-shaped-me/ #nostalgia #softwaredevelopment #blogposts #techhumor #digitalarchives #HackerNews #ngated
Seeking recommendations for vendors to scan/digitize yearbooks: U.S. location, non-destructive process preferred but not required.
🎉Thrilled to share the publication of our #OpenAccess book 'Opening up our Heritage: Opportunities in Digitising and Promoting Cultural and Research #Collections', a collection of 19 chapters written by librarians and researchers on the #digitisation and promotion of cultural and scientific #heritage.
👉 HTML: https://e-publish.uliege.be/opening-up-our-heritage
👉 PDF and ePub: https://e-publish.uliege.be/opening-up-our-heritage/front-matter/free-download-buy/
#DigitalArchives #DigitalCollections #Preservation #Libraries #Metadata #Discoverability #OpenScience #Pressbooks
📢 The Internet Archive is hiring musicians to play at our virtual staff meetings. Share your music, get paid, and support our mission!
🎼 Signup details on our blog ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/calling-all-musicians-mini-concerts-at-the-internet-archive/
@internetarchive #InternetArchive #Musicians #Arts #DigitalArchives #SupportTheArchive #lukatsiklaurimusic
UC Berkeley's California Local Government Documents Collection, hosted by the @internetarchive, is transforming access to local government information. This initiative digitizes over 10,000 publications from cities, counties, & regional agencies across California, ensuring transparency and accountability.
Explore the collection ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/igscalocalgovdocs
@UCBerkeley #OpenGovernment #DigitalArchives #PublicAccess #Transparency
Tomorrow (Thursday, 21 August) I’ll join a panel at the Tallinna Kunstihoone for the catalogue launch of the Tallinna Graafikatriennaal / Tallinn Print Trienniali in Tallin (Estonia) together with Marika Agu , Tõnis Jürgens and Brigita Reinert. Indeed, in the catalogue there are among the others two texts of mines: Trükitud versus elektrooniline (Print vs. Electrons) and Lõputu kirjastamise paradigma: ruum, aeg ja mälu (The Endless Publishing Paradigm: Space, Time, and Memory) for the very first time translated into Estonian, which is of course a huge honour!
#tacticalpublishing #digitalpublishing #publishing #publishinghistory #indiepublishing #independentpublishing #mediaart #newmediaart #netart #internetart #artsciencetechnology #creativecodeart #creativetechnology #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarchaeology #retrofuture #artistbook #experimentalpublishing #electronicliterature #zines #digitalwriting #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #posttruth #mediamanipulation #hacktivism #postdigital #postdigitalprint
Starting to dig in on the "Capacity and Care" Ithaka report (http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep70507); my workplace was one of the ones they talked to.
First observation, right off the bat: they talked to 280 people across 24 institutions, or an average of ~12 ppl/shop.
That's WAY out of step with the typical archive—remember, the A*Census II found that only 25% of archives have 6+ FTE (https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/acensus-ii-administrators-survey#datawrapper-chart-ZqHIT). We're only dealing with the biggest 1/4 of the field here
Digital #Transgender Archive
https://archive.org/details/digitaltransgenderarchive
#DigitalArchives #Magazines #zines #QueerCulture #LGBTQ #2SLGBTQAI
The TransSisters issue on Michigan Womyn’s Festival is so interesting to me because I became aware of that controversy much later on, in the early 2000s so I’m gaining a lot of perspective finally reading direct testimony from people who were turned away from the fest in the early 1990s. I remember Camp Trans that formed to protest the festival.
Being in the punk scene, I thought of MichFest as a 2nd wave feminist hippie scene. I never cared about it or went. Some punk bands (maybe Team Dresch or the Butchies) were asked to play in the early 2000s and I believe that’s how it became a heated issue in our scene. Anyone out there remember this stuff? #GenX #Queercore
Has anyone out there in #library land taken UMaine’s Graduate Certificate in Digital Curation? I’m interested because it seems practical / applicable to my job. Or if you took a similar program (online, self-paced) what did you think of it?
(boosts appreciated)
#digitalarchives #librarian #librarytraining #archives #digitalcuration #digitalpreservation
Another interesting paper to add to the 'to read' pile. Includes some rich looking analysis!
"This study provides evidence that thematic clustering can be a beneficial #aggregation approach, opening opportunities for studying different ways of representing and #visualizing aggregated #search results."
A study of search result aggregation approaches for the digital humanities https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70006 #retrieval #searching #DigitalHumanities #DigitalArchives #DigitalLibraries
Happy birthday to me!! Redstart Works was formally established on July 25, 2024 🥳
To celebrate the moment, I wrote a post about what I've been up to for the past year, what I've learned, and what I hope for the future. Please boost ☺️
https://facilitator-jess.github.io/RedstartWorks/2025/07/25/redstart-1st-bday.html
Thank you especially to @TeamMidwest for the support over the past year and @phil for helping me break and fix my website today!
Micro Com Systems revolutionizes historical artifact preservation through advanced digital scanning techniques, transforming delicate documents into accessible digital records. Bridging past and present with cutting-edge technology. #HistoryPreservation #DigitalArchives
#DH2025: From my home region in Lower Saxony 🇩🇪, Lina Franken & Sabina Mollenhauer present a research-driven curation approach to archive the everyday culture of rural community halls. Wedding menus, party photos, and memories become material traces of intangible #CulturalHeritage. #DigitalArchives
#DH2025: From my home region in Lower Saxony 🇩🇪, Lina Franken & Sabina Mollenhauer present a research-driven curation approach to archive the everyday culture of rural community halls. Wedding menus, party photos, and memories become material traces of intangible #CulturalHeritage. #DigitalArchives
Preserving your story isn’t just about memory. It’s about identity, belonging, and connection. When we document local stories, we help build stronger, more inclusive communities. And the best part? It all starts with you.
Your story is worth remembering. Start with one folder. One photo. One memory.
#Permanent #DigitalArchives #FamilyHistory #CommunityIdentity
Today Saturday, June 14 at 19:00 I’ll give a talk at @hkw_berlin – Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, focused on my last book Tactical Publishing, Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century, published by @themitpress.
I’ll then be in a dialogue moderated by MISS READ festival director Michalis Pichler (thanks for the invitation!).
https://missread.com/event/focus-tactical-publishing/
#tacticalpublishing #digitalpublishing #publishing #publishinghistory #indiepublishing #independentpublishing #mediaart #newmediaart #netart #internetart #artsciencetechnology #creativecodeart #creativetechnology #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarchaeology #retrofuture #artistbook #experimentalpublishing #electronicliterature #zines #digitalwriting #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #posttruth #mediamanipulation #hacktivism #postdigital #postdigitalprint
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« La numérisation du patrimoine ne garantit pas une conservation durable »
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Alors que l’#archivagenumérique est pratiqué tous azimuts, le #sociologue #AlainChenevez rappelle, dans une tribune au « #LeMonde », que cette mémoire est vulnérable sur bien des plans : dépendant de techniques parfois vite obsolètes et d’infrastructures énergivores, le numérique n’empêche nullement, et peut-être même facilite, la censure et les restrictions d’accès. #digitalarchives
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/06/12/la-numerisation-du-patrimoine-ne-garantit-pas-une-conservation-durable_6612506_3232.html
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