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

@general

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 @[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 d

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