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Happy 1st birthday, #DataRescueProject! www.datarescueproject.org/a-year-in-da... "In a single year, we have rescued over 2500 datasets from over 90 govt agencies. This work was supported by over 900 volunteers." #Data #DefendResearch #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics @datarescueproject.org@bsky.brid.gy

A Year in Data Rescue

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom/116018427239018412

#ReferenceDesk
#CIAWorldFactbook
#GovDocs
#preservation

Thousands of people want to double size of historic Toronto attraction
Thousands of Toronto residents are calling on the City to expand the historic Allan Gardens Conservatory.A petition launched by local advocacy group Friends of Allan Gardens proposes nearly doubling the size of the public park and conservatory located at 160 Gerrard St. E near Gerrard a...
#expansion #conservatory #preservation #history #Toronto #AllanGardens
https://www.blogto.com/city/2026/02/petition-expand-allan-gardens/

Interesting zoning story: Alexandria Virginia's waterfront is partly made of old ships. They were used to create the fill to build it up along the river. This has created a great interest there in discretionary zoning to ensure discovery and preservation of archeological artifacts https://www.alexandriava.gov/archaeology/four-18th-century-ships #AlexandriaVA #zoning #history #archeology #preservation

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon hackernoon.com/the-long-now-o… #AI #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #history #preservation

Generative Al and Fair Use
I emailed Brewser Kahle regarding 2025 and generative Al, and here is his quote:
"Generative Al has caused some web sites to pursue dollar signs by block their sites or launch lawsuits. This does not help the cultural heritage institutions, such as the Internet Archive and often hurts users in general. The web seems to have turned much more adversarial as
many pursue monetization.
The Internet Archive will stay free and open to try to help people get a handle on our changing world. The Archive offers open datasets for Al researchers and companies to leverage for their services.
As an organization the Internet Archive has been using generative Al tools to help speed metadata assignment and scanning activities."

As we move deeper into the 21st century, the Internet Archive stands as a paradox. It is a technological behemoth, operating at a scale that rivals Silicon Valley giants, yet it is housed in a church and run by librarians. It is a fragile institution, battered by lawsuits and budget constraints, yet it is also the most robust memory bank humanity has ever built.

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting?hss_channel=fbp-16998442867 #AI #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #history #preservation

Windsor approves Peche Island preservation project, seeks federal funding for fix
Windsor has a plan that could return water to Peche Island's internal ponds this summer if the project gets regulatory approvals required to start the work.
#preservation #project #funding #Windsor
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/peche-island-windsor-fix-requires-approvals-9.7072979?cmp=rss

The latest Epstein Files data dump is added to the public info server.

#torrents #publicinformation #preservation #datapreservation #publicdata #antifa #resistance #fascism #fascist #regime #uspol #epstein #epsteinfiles

Quick update on the crowd-funded solar-powered t-girl operated public information server (aka antifa server). Things are going strong, torrents are seeding.

The next torrent addition will be the latest Epstein files dump. The data being served up comes from https://sciop.net/datasets/.

More details: https://lydie.cc/data.html

#torrents #publicinformation #preservation #datapreservation #publicdata #antifa #resistance #fascism #fascist #regime #uspol #epstein #epsteinfiles

This image is a screenshot of a computer desktop showing a torrent client application and a hard drive properties window, illustrating a massive digital archiving effort. The background is dominated by the dark-themed interface of a torrent program, likely qBittorrent, listing numerous large files with names suggesting public data collections such as "National Archives," "Department of Education," "biodiversitylibrary-org," and "ExtremeWeather." All visible torrents have bright magenta progress bars indicating they are 100% complete and currently "Seeding," with file sizes ranging from hundreds of gigabytes to over 1.5 terabytes each. Superimposed on the right side is a Windows "Properties" dialog box for a local disk drive named "PublicInfoArchive (F:)." This window reveals the sheer scale of the storage: the drive has a total capacity of approximately 101 terabytes (TB), with about 95.2 TB used and only 6.65 TB of free space remaining, visually represented by a nearly full blue pie chart.

Scientists are using chemistry to recreate and conserve the smells of the past. @KnowableMag explains why and how.

https://flip.it/1UY1HG

#Science #Smell #Chemistry #History #Preservation

📢 DPC Members 📢 Join us on 3 Feb, 14:00–16:00 UTC for 💾 Copy That Floppy… LIVE! 💾
An online workshop with Dr Leontien Talboom, covering floppy disk preservation and a live demo of the full workflow, from setting up a workstation to verifying results. Sign up here: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/575/-/copy-that-floppy-live

#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #DPCevents #FutureNostalgia #digipres #floppydisc #preservation

“ALERT! Preserve Evidence Of ICE Crimes At Demonstrations To Help Future Prosecutions”

by Mark Taylor in DeMOCKracy.Ink on Substack

“Information protection is the first step on the road to justice”

https://open.substack.com/pub/mark192/p/alert-preserve-evidence-of-ice-crimes

#Press #US #ICE #Fascism #Evidence #Filming #Preservation

Stop Killing Games' EU petition amassed just under 1.3 million verified signatures, according to final count - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/stop-killing-games-eu-petition-amassed-just-under-13-million-verified-signatures-according-to-final-count #MultiplayerCooperative #MultiplayerCompetitive #ActionAdventure #ElectronicArts #Preservation #Thirdperson #Bioware #Shooter #XboxOne #Anthem #RPG #PS4 #PC

Software Heritage : dix ans de préservation du patrimoine applicatif - Républik IT Le Média https://www.republik-it.fr/solutions-techno/applicatif-metier/software-heritage-dix-ans-de-preservation-du-patrimoine-applicatif.html #software_heritage #softwareheritage #patrimoine_applicatif #patrimoineapplicatif #préservation #code_source #codesource #open_source #opensource #développement

Last fall, we visited presidents' houses in Virginia to study the historic #preservation work (🙏 2 my wife, including behind-the-scenes tours) but also the treatment of #slavery: increasingly present, prominent, sensitive. 1st thing on Mt. Vernon tour (details: alt text). So...

in the outbuilding where the tour begins before one enters the mansion proper

tour guide (middle-aged woman with shoulder-length hair)m wearing white shirt and blue jacket, holds up a card with an infographic representing the population of Mount Vernon in Washington's day, the vast majority enslaved:

317 total
123 owned by Washington
153 dower slaves from the Custis estate (inherited by his wife; he had no power to free)
17 hired white servants and family
5 Washington family members

See further

Create Your Own Infographic | George Washington's Mount Vernon

https://www.mountvernon.org/education/for-teachers/lessonplans/lesson/create-your-own-infographic

George Washington and Slavery

https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery?gad_campaignid=665289528&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADye4kEHCrAOgUrEP2PvI-aFNQmwm&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgcq8n_qTkgMVFiNECB0GBTV1EAAYASAAEgKC__D_BwE

ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss

https://pdfa.org/want-to-make-your-pdfs-20-smaller-for-free/

#HackerNews #ISO #PDF #Brotli #Compression #PDF #Optimization #Document #Size #Reduction #Quality #Preservation

WW2-era prisoner camp won’t be demolished as Ontario council approves restoration
Jury Lands Foundation will take on the responsibility of fundraising to preserve and repair the former cafeteria building at Camp 30 that was slated for demolition.
#preservation #restoration #fundraising #Ontario #Canada #Camp30
https://globalnews.ca/news/11621558/camp-30-bowmanville-saved-fundraising/

#preservation

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