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- erambler.co.uk On being told to do more with less
a blog about research communication & higher education & open culture & technology & making & librarianship & stuff
In which I question whether “efficiency” is all it’s cracked up to be...
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Digital Preservation is People Mission Statement 2024
write.as Hello world!This is the first blog post of the new Digital Preservation is People initiative (DPIP) and the announcement of its 2024 Mission Statemen...
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
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The release candidate for (https://digipres.club/tags/Jpylyzer) 2.2 is out now! This is a truly action-packed release. Among other things, it adds support for High Throughput (ht
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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(https://digipres.club/tags/OPF) webinar tomorrow at 20.00 UTC
\#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
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Where are you digital preservationists? - by Barbara Sierman
www.linkedin.com Where are you, digital preservationist?Once upon a time, there was a lively digital preservation community, sharing knowledge and expertise via social media and by personal meetings. Then there came a pandemic.
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 @[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.
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Just a good random listen, can be re-purposed for whater
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At the (https://digipres.club/tags/DPC) today we celebrate the public launch for our new guidance note on Persistent Identifiers: (http://doi.org/10.7207/twgn23
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
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Interesting piece by Dr Elisabetta Mori for the Archives of IT looking at 75 years of Human-Computer Interaction (from a largely British perspective) (https://digipres.club/tags/DigiPres) [
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/
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Evaluating High Throughput (https://digipres.club/tags/JPEG2000) ((https://digipres.club/tags/HTJ2K)) as a Drop-In Replacement for JPEG2000 with (https://digipres.club/tags/I
Evaluating High Throughput #JPEG2000 (#HTJ2K) as a Drop-In Replacement for JPEG2000 with #IIIF (via @Thorsted):
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In today's (https://digipres.club/tags/WheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon) 📯, (https://digipres.club/tags/WordPress) introduces the "100 year plan", a servic
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 (https://digipres.club/tags/PRONOM) with 39 new PUIDs, 39 new signatures and 63 updates!! Big thank yous for a
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/
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If you haven't seen the email making the rounds yet, the call for proposals for the International Internet Preservation Consortium (https://digipres.club/tags/IIPC) Web Archiving Conference [#W
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/.
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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.
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
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In our last article in the series
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 @general https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-disappearing-file-formats-5-applications-for-disappearing-file-formats/
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PART 4 of 5 of the blog series "Monitoring Disappearing File Formats" by Rein van ‘t Veer is up today on the (https://digipres.club/tags/OPF) website.
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
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The analysis of the DANS repository in our series on
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
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Mason Egger: Writing Docs Devs Love: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WobKoE9OPI)
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.
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The first analysis of a repository in our series on
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
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Brilliant new blog today on the (https://digipres.club/tags/OPF) website - ‘Monitoring Disappearing File Formats: Common Crawl’, originally in Dutch by Rein van ‘t Veer.
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
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(https://digipres.cafe/c/general) The Case for Videogame and App Preservation
@general The Case for Videogame and App Preservation
https://www.macstories.net/stories/the-case-for-videogame-and-app-preservation/
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Server/Federation status update July 14, 2023
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!!
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(https://digipres.cafe/c/general) (https://blog.vlt.sh/blog/the-massive-hole-in-the-npm-ecosystem)
@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
- obsidian.md Free your notes
Our new open source Obsidian plugin, Importer, makes it easy to convert your notes from Evernote to durable Markdown files that you own and can use with any app that supports plain text files.
> 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
- stephanango.com File over app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve an...
accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data
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Server/Federation status update July 2, 2023
Hello everyone - just a brief update as we begin July.
There was some positive interest in https://digipres.cafe in the first week of standing it up.
At the end of that week was an ill-advised upgrade to 0.18 of the Lemmy Software: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy. Some of the issues caused by the upgrade have since been recovered from.
In the past week we've seen more federation issues caused by the upgrade - those seemed to be very local to the Ansible deployment: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/issues/106 and have now been fixed. The patch has been applied on the server here to help ease things.
There remains a last(?) Federation issue that really affects the user experience of Federation using Lemmy, described below.
The issue
If you take the URL for this post, and paste it into Mastodon (or another ActivityPub instance), you should be able to boost or comment it. This expands the network reach of the post and this site allowing comments and support to come in from anywhere in the Fediverse.
Since the upgrade it hasn't been possible to do this with posts here on Lemmy.
I have left a comment about it on the GitHub repository. The issue I have responded to may be too broad and so I anticipate it landing in a new specific issue sometime in the future (hopefully near).
Others have noticed the issue as well and so it's great not to be alone.
Going forward
As I say, the issue really affects the user experience of Lemmy. Digipres.cafe is meant to be a link aggregator, but there are other ways of going about that when we're not using the Fediverrse.
But the Fediverse is the unique selling point that made it seem worth standing up with the hope (as mentioned in previous posts) that the site may provide some glue between different ActivityPub instances for information surrounding digital preservation.
Until the issue is fixed, the experience here may be a little lackluster. Hopefully it won't be too long, and then the site can be promoted a little bit more.
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New blog post - (https://digipres.club/tags/VeraPDF) parse status as a proxy for (https://digipres.club/tags/PDF) rendering: experiments with the Synthetic PDF Testset:
New blog post - #VeraPDF parse status as a proxy for #PDF rendering: experiments with the Synthetic PDF Testset:
https://www.bitsgalore.org/2023/06/29/verapdf-parse-status-as-a-proxy-for-rendering
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digipres in fiction
a semi-serious thread: how is digital preservation depicted in fictional movies or books?
I'll kick off with The Silo (2023): a dystopian serie set in the future where humanity resides in an enclave. In this society, both physical and digital cultural artifacts from the past are banned. But a 140 years old hard drive is found... https://digipres.club/@raffaele/110326856709648207
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the first in the (https://digipres.club/tags/opfhackathon) beginner webinar series is tomorrow 🎉 🤠 please encourage those you think might be interested to register for 'getting started
the first in the #opfhackathon beginner webinar series is tomorrow 🎉 🤠 please encourage those you think might be interested to register for 'getting started with github' here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN\_N8sUhb3oR0yQsEiEUGxgsg#/registration
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Development Preview: PDF file checker based on the Arlington PDF Model
openpreservation.org Development Preview: PDF file checker based on the Arlington PDF Model - Open Preservation FoundationOn the 30th anniversary of PDF technology, we're excited to announce the availability of the first development preview of a new veraPDF-powered application. Building on...
"On the 30th anniversary of PDF technology, we’re excited to announce the availability of the first development preview of a new veraPDF-powered application."
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Getting started with federation on https://digipres.cafe
Digipres.cafe is part of the Fediverse which means that while it is itself a server, and central source of information, you can also engage with it entirely from your own Federated social media instances, e.g. Mastodon, PeerTube, WriteFreely, and so on. You're completely in control of your posts if you do that - you'll be able to see replies from your followers on your Fediverse instance, plus gather replies from those seeing your link through digipres.cafe.
Hopefully like other link aggregators digipres.cafe can help to generate network effect for those who have a project, blog, or something (pretty much anything) they want to show off or talk about.
Rather than asking users to subscribe to a single central website doing this, and rather than trying to own such a resource, as a Fediverse instance digipres.cafe can simply provide some extra glue between instances connecting things a little more, especially in this post-Twitter yet multi-siloed world.
Hopefully digipres.cafe is inclusive of anything #digipres, #GLAM, #Archives, and anything digital information records management; and anything else tangential to those subjects outside of the disciplines, #InfoSec, #Software, and so on.
Something you may be looking to share more widely, or seek discussion on from your own account (usually with a link to point at, e.g. blog post, podcast, new training resource etc.), can be boosted by copying in digipres.cafe.
Posting
To do this you can use one of the existing channels here (communities) or create your own. And then you copy in that channel in your post, e.g.
There are five communities on the site currently (as suggestions), to include them in your message simply add one of: @[email protected]; @[email protected]; @[email protected]; @[email protected]; @[email protected]
E.g. to share a training course:
Interested on feedback on my new FRED guide at http://example.com/FRED_Guide @[email protected]
E.g. to share a new blog:
Check out my year in review http://example.com/Year_in_Review @[email protected]
Sandbox
There's a Sandbox to allow you to play around with federation too. Please create, delete, modify, and go wild there as you would like to understand more about what is happening when you engage with digipres.cafe.
Following
You can subscribe to channels from your Fediverse instance by searching for them using the same format as above (nb. search for Mastodon is in the top-left corner on the Desktop version):
RSS
There are RSS feeds for the communities on this site (and again for any new communities that are created):
- General: https://digipres.cafe/feeds/c/general.xml?sort=Active
- Web Archiving: https://digipres.cafe/feeds/c/web_archiving.xml?sort=Active
- Events: https://digipres.cafe/feeds/c/events.xml?sort=Active
- Jobs: https://digipres.cafe/feeds/c/jobs.xml?sort=Active
- Learning: https://digipres.cafe/feeds/c/learning.xml?sort=Active
What does Lemmy and digipres.cafe provide?
Lemmy provides other link aggregator features including up-voting and down-voting to help people to find the best posts and replies in future. You can also save posts and find them via your account (if you create one here). Regular Fediverse followers can use their favorite bookmark option.
Communities allow you to separate what you follow from the noise of other channels. E.g. maybe you're only interested in the job postings that people may share here? Maybe you're only interested in web archiving. It's all good, you can subscribe to what's of interest and use different paradigms to follow those based on whether you engage directly via digipres.cafe or, e.g. Mastodon.
It features moderation in case anything is reported or needs to be investigated. And of course, posts and links can be easily found and referenced in future, including those from your Fediverse account. Anything from outside digipres.cafe can be linked to from the original post be that on AusGlam, Mastodon.social, digpres.club, or wherever.
More on Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Connects you to the Fediverse: aka. but Twitter was never your thing
Digipres.cafe (via Lemmy) provides a minimum sign-up if anyone is interested (minimum of a username and password). This connects you to the Fediverse and provides you a way of sharing your links and resources with a wider audience but without the noise of a timeline. You can engage with others via here and it works on a comment-response like basis; again, no-timeline to bother you. As a bonus, links won't enter and leave the zeitgeist at Feed-like-speed and so should stay fresh and findable for longer.
Open
Digipres.cafe is as open as it can possibly be, allowing anyone to engage with it from within the Fediverse, and create new communities and posts. We only ask you follow the Contributor's Covenant Guidelines which will be considered given any reports or complaints.
- digipres.github.io Digital preservation policies and strategies
Digital preservation policies and strategies
Via @[email protected] - this #DigitalPreservation policy and strategy resource is now part of the http://digipres.org GitHub repository! Hopefully this move helps keep it current and encourages collaboration. See also: https://github.com/digipres/policies
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Persistent Identifier Guide
The Persistent Identifier Guide is a site run by the dutch digitla heritage network. It includes basic info on different PID forms (URN, ARK, DOI, Handle), best practices and a PID guide in form of a questionnaire
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Code4lib.net and other GLAM related link aggregators?
Another link aggregator folks watching digipres.cafe may be interested in is code4lib.net. Please check it out, and if you know any other instances in this space please comment or link to them below!
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Welcome!
Hi all - welcome to digipres.cafe. Think reddit or hacker news for digital preservation and digital preservation tangential links and questions.
The primary idea was born out of recent social media controversies and recognizing how difficult link aggregation will be post-Twitter.
You can create an account here, you can also consider creating new topics and commenting on existing topics from your Mastodon accounts or elsewhere in the Fediverse. It's all linked via the ActivityPub standard.
You can create a new topic from Mastodon by including @[email protected] in your Toot. You can reply to existing topics by replying to a link to a post via Mastodon.
See this helpful YouTube video for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXUDs0ee_w0
Please help me to test the idea and understand what is needed to maintain a link aggregator service such as this 🙏(if you have comments or ideas and want to improve this site, please reply here, or elsewhere on the site and let's see what we can do!)
For more information on Lemmy - the software used for digipres.cafe, please check out the information on its parent site: https://join-lemmy.org/