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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

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/.

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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.

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 ‘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/

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 ‘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/

@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

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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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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