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In which I question whether “efficiency” is all it’s cracked up to be...

Digital Preservation is People is a new association for those involved, adjacent, or curious about digital preservation to become involved and broaden the church that is the discipline: https://write.as/dpip/hello-world #digipres #glam #archives #ProfessionalDevelopment #Community

The release candidate for #Jpylyzer 2.2 is out now! This is a truly action-packed release. Among other things, it adds support for High Throughput #JPEG2000 #HTJ2K. More info here:

https://jpylyzer.openpreservation.org/2023/11/07/jpylyzer-2-2-release-candidate

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#OPF webinar tomorrow at 20.00 UTC

Come and discuss a first major study to analyse the availability rates of historical games: https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

We've got some great speakers to consider how these results affect further research, come and check it out! https://openpreservation.org/events/the-87-missing-report-and-digital-preservation-advocacy/?q=9186

#DigitalPreservation #digipres @general

Hey #digipres folks, does anyone know of writing about the (cultural) history of OAIS? Like why/when/how LAMs crossed over with CCSDS? Hoping to add to my course syllabus @general

Pertinent to digipres.cafe, where are all you digital preservationists asks where is everyone these days? Post Twitter, post-X? Now we're spread in Threads across Blue Skies, Mastodons, and all the social medias...

Barbara calls for various DP interest groups to create a shared communication platform.

digipres.cafe might not be that place per se, but it might be a model for that platform as it centralizes communication about tangible links to tangible projects and developments and chatter in the digital preservation community and across Fediverse instances.

digipres.cafe is a link aggregator allows you to post from your own Fediverse instance, and subscribers to a channel, say @file_[email protected] from any other Fediverse instance can see, and interact with that post. It remains more persistent than other Mastodon instances by providing a focused, indexed channel, that others can interact with at any time.

Folks looking for previous links and information can come back to digipres.cafe to explore the different links and topics.

There's more information here, where to get started.

Why not digipres.cafe? -- It's just a site maintained by one person. It's a Lemmy instance, so there's one model. It has found a little traction, so there's another (there's still some work to do), but it might be something more appropriate for a group with financial resources to support and dedicate time to as needed.

Just a good random listen, can be re-purposed for whater

At the #DPC today we celebrate the public launch for our new guidance note on Persistent Identifiers: http://doi.org/10.7207/twgn23-02 #digipres @general

Interesting piece by Dr Elisabetta Mori for the Archives of IT looking at 75 years of Human-Computer Interaction (from a largely British perspective) #DigiPres @general
https://archivesit.org.uk/75-years-of-human-computer-interaction/

Evaluating High Throughput #JPEG2000 (#HTJ2K) as a Drop-In Replacement for JPEG2000 with #IIIF (via @Thorsted):

https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/17596

#code4lib @general

In today's #WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon 📯, #WordPress introduces the "100 year plan", a service that promises century-long domain registration and web hosting:

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/08/25/introducing-the-100-year-plan/

Some thoughts by @ernie - "On the grand scale, does a service that ensures your legacy stays online for a hundred years make sense?":

https://tedium.co/2023/08/26/wordpress-100-year-plan-archival-legacy/

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Exciting news! Yesterday, the team at the UK National Archives released v.114 of #PRONOM with 39 new PUIDs, 39 new signatures and 63 updates!! Big thank yous for all the community efforts for this.

#DigitalPreservation #digipres @general https://openpreservation.org/news/the-national-archives-release-v-114-of-pronom/

If you haven't seen the email making the rounds yet, the call for proposals for the International Internet Preservation Consortium #IIPC Web Archiving Conference #WAC is now open 🎉

Details about submission topics & guidelines are available on the conference website: https://netpreserve.org/ga2024/cfp/.

#digitalpreservation #digipres @general

The fifth & final addition to the blog series "Monitoring Disappearing File Formats" by @reinvantveer is up today! This translation focuses on applications for disappearing file formats.

Give it a read here: https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-disappearing-file-formats-5-applications-for-disappearing-file-formats/?q=1

#digitalpreservation #digipres @general

In our last article in the series
‘Monitoring Disappearing File Formats’, we look at the relation between file format and applications #OPF #DutchDigitalHeritageNetwork #digitalpreservation. @wikidata
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https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-disappearing-file-formats-5-applications-for-disappearing-file-formats/

PART 4 of 5 of the blog series "Monitoring Disappearing File Formats" by Rein van ‘t Veer is up today on the #OPF website.

This blog's about DANS! Incredible translation work from the #DutchDigitalHeritageNetwork Preservation Watch and Preferred Formats program.

Read it here: https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-disappearing-file-formats-4-dans/?q=1

@general #digitalpreservation #digipres

The analysis of the DANS repository in our series on
‘Monitoring Disappearing File Formats’, https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-disappearing-file-formats-4-dans/ #OPF #DutchDigitalHeritageNetwork #digitalpreservation.
@DANS_knaw_nwo @general

Mason Egger: Writing Docs Devs Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WobKoE9OPI

Really interesting collection of tips for writing documentation that devs, especially those new to a project will love.

#tech #TechnicalWriting #docs @general

The first analysis of a repository in our series on
‘Monitoring Disappearing File Formats: Sound and Vision’, https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-disappearing-file-formats-3-sound-vision/ #OPF #DutchDigitalHeritageNetwork #digitalpreservation. @nisv @general

Brilliant new blog today on the #OPF website - ‘Monitoring Disappearing File Formats: Common Crawl’, originally in Dutch by Rein van ‘t Veer.

It’s the second of the #DutchDigitalHeritageNetwork 's English translations of the Preservation Watch and Preferred Formats program series #digitalpreservation. Read it here: https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-disappearing-file-formats-2/?q=1 @general

@general The Case for Videogame and App Preservation

https://www.macstories.net/stories/the-case-for-videogame-and-app-preservation/

Following up on the 2 July post, the different federation issues around Lemmy seem to have been fixed and digipres.cafe has been upgraded.

While it wasn't the best timing for federation to stop entirely some positives were learning more about ActivityPub and this time the upgrade went smoothly!

Hopefully the Lemmy team have good tests in place to avoid some of the more fundamental issues in future.

Back to digipres.cafe?

Hopefully folks haven't been too put off by the experience. I see some people active on here, thanks @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] for plugging away!!

How to use digipres.cafe

A small guide has been written up here. Hopefully that's a good starting point for folk.

One way you can think about federation via Lemmy and digipres.cafe is like a hashtag (except with an '@') that allows your post from another ActivityPub instance to be indexed here and then interacted with from other ActivityPub instances. As a link aggregator it may attract different audiences and different interactions that you may not get through a single ActivityPub instance on its own. The best thing is folks interacting with your posts in the original ActivityPub instance, here on Lemmy, and on their own instance! It has the potential to broaden the reach of all of the interesting and useful links that you're looking at today!!

@general https://blog.vlt.sh/blog/the-massive-hole-in-the-npm-ecosystem

An interesting (and potentially massive) security flaw in the JavaScript ecosystem that concerns file manifest metadata, and the APIs that use them.

It is also discussed by the author in this podcast interview: https://changelog.com/jsparty/282

The first conversion format we have added is .enex for Evernote. We will be adding more file formats to convert your notes from Notion, Apple Notes, and other formats including folders of HTML files.

It looks like this is an enactment of the philosophy expressed in https://digipres.cafe/post/30

accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data