
by Kylie Goetz, Digital & Special Projects Manager, La MaMa Archive

by Kylie Goetz, Digital & Special Projects Manager, La MaMa Archive
Digital Preservation is People Mission Statement 2024
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
Where are you digital preservationists? - by Barbara Sierman
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 d
Replying via .cafe
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
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!