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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#DPC members! Join us this Friday for an engaging Audiovisual Special Interest Group (AVSIG) session featuring one of our newest DPC members, RTÉ Archives.

Presentation by Adrienne Warburton (RTÉ Archives) on mass digitization of audio and audiovisual assets and RTÉ's #digitalpreservation work
Friday March 28th, 2-3pm UTC
Online members-only event
Register now: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/475/-/audio-visual-special-interest-group

Article intéressant sur la question d'instaurer un dépôt légal au Québec sur les jeux vidéo, pour les préserver comme le fait la BNF actuellement:

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2132287/depot-legal-jeux-video-banq-bac

Last call! Share your voice on the DPC Bit List! Our User Experience Survey closes March 21st. Whether you're a power user or just discovering it, we want to hear from YOU on how this digital preservation resource works for you.

Help shape its future! Take the quick survey here: https://bit.ly/BitlistSurvey
#DigitalPreservation #BitList #Heritage

There was a *lot* of critical work done at #18F. I'm trying to capture the most universally useful documents over on my policy website - I've started with De-Risking Government Technology Guide.

PRs of other documents welcome!

https://digitalpolicy.us

https://github.com/krusynth/digitalpolicy

Since informalscience.org was down (probably due to ongoing manufactured funding chaos), I've downloaded the NISE reports that fellow evaluator Amy Grack Nelson shared. It's about 10 years of previously publicly available reports from museums and nonprofit organizations.

If there's interest here, I can share the link, but I don't want to give the bots/scrapers more fuel.

Spreading #knowledge globally: We're finding new homes for parts of our printed #collection

The entire #Netherlands #Agronomic #Historical Institute collection is digitised & available within 2 years on @internetarchive

Large parts of our #JSTOR #journals are donated to #Ukrainian #universities

Our #Chinese collection is heading to University of St Andrews

Plus, we're sharing selected duplicate materials with our local community

Welcome to our newest Associate Member! The Common Crawl Foundation joins the DPC, bringing their massive 10+ petabyte web archive to our digital preservation community⁠⁠. Their commitment to making large corpora of data from the web openly accessible aligns perfectly with our efforts to bring about a sustainable future for digital materials. #DigitalPreservation #digipres #OpenWeb #WebArchiving #community #JoinUs

After a lot of work behind the scenes, the mission-statement of @SafeguardingResearch is finally public:
https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114025352519979173

Join our #DigitalPreservation efforts!
Forum: https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/
Hashtags: #SafeguardingResearch, #DataRescue
Fediverse: @SafeguardingResearch
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/datarescueproject.org

"On Jan. 10, the U.S. Department of Justice released a 123-page report on the 1921 racial massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which claimed several hundred lives and left the thriving Black neighborhood of Greenwood in smoldering ruins. The department’s investigation determined that the attack was “so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence.” While it conceded that “no avenue of prosecution now exists for these crimes,” the department hailed the findings as the “federal government’s first thorough reckoning with this devastating event,” which “officially acknowledges, illuminates, and preserves for history the horrible ordeals of the massacre’s victims.”

“Until this day, the Justice Department has not spoken publicly about the race massacre or officially accounted for the horrific events that transpired in Tulsa,” said Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, in announcing the report. “This report breaks that silence through a rigorous examination and a full accounting of one of the darkest episodes of our nation’s past. This report reflects our commitment to the pursuit of justice and truth, even in the face of insurmountable obstacles.”

Only two weeks later, the department took a strikingly different action regarding the historical record of a violent riot: It removed from its website the searchable database of all cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol that were prosecuted by the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia."

https://www.propublica.org/article/january-6-erasure-doj-database-trump-history

Nothing digital can be preserved in a box, so I'm gratified that a new generation of curators including the Tate's Val Ravaglia and MOMI's Regina Harsanyi have embraced variable media—a preservation approach that encompasses performances and installations too. https://youtu.be/ZXU1TnTS1gA?si=QrYGJRKU5DYUb_mK&t=1390

We’re proud to be collaborating with the End of Term Web Archive and EDGI to capture and preserve critical government websites before they’re lost, using our high-fidelity web archiving tools: Browsertrix and ArchiveWeb.page

https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-02-06-preserving-government-websites-with-browsertrix/

"More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes and scientific research, among many other topics. Doctors, researchers and other professionals often rely on such government data and advisories. Some government agencies appear to have removed entire sections of their websites, while others are missing only a handful of pages.

Among the pages that have been taken down:"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/upshot/trump-government-websites-missing-pages.html

"This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don’t save it, even if it seems like it’s everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear."

https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/

Interested in #DigitalPreservation and #archiving? The @muckrock team is looking for volunteers for their #DataLiberation project.

"Since 2022, the Data Liberation Project — a volunteer effort led by data journalist Jeremy Singer-Vine — has used [Freedom of Information Act] laws and web scraping to make a wide range of government data sets public and usable.

Their efforts have helped newsrooms and the public keep an eye on [Transportation Security Administration] complaints, explore data on over 58,000 boating accidents and examine an expansive collection of hazardous material transportation reports."

More about the project: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/sep/18/data-liberation-project-volunteer-data-science/

Join the Slack: https://www.muckrock.com/slack/