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Kennst du schon meinen Podcast archive.cast? 🤓

Hier erhältst du einmal monatlich Einblicke in die Welt der Archive? In der aktuellen Folge (10) geht es darum, was man mit Archivmaterial alles anstellen kann. 🔎

Hör mal rein - zu finden bei Spotify oder im RSS-Feed. 🎙️

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#archivematters #collect #preserve #remember #archiv #archivar #archivwissenschaft #literaturwissenschaft #archiving #archivarbeit #inventarisieren #ordnen #art

Looking forward to doing a bit of a virtual lunch and learn, tuning into @TeamMidwest 's talk "Place Based Planning" at 12 PM EST.

> The impacts of climate change make preserving cultural heritage more challenging for the heritage and arts sectors... Participants in this workshop will learn how to use online tools to interpret climate data at the local and regional level to understand the risks for long-term impacts of climate change.

There is also a "climate circle" on March 21st, registration is on the bottom of the page.
climate-resiliency.clir.org/se

The last session is Big Data and the Preservation Problem climate-resiliency.clir.org/se

Climate ResiliencyPlace-Based Planning - Climate Resiliency

Just discovered ArchiveBox — FOSS, self-hosted internet archiving.

The way the web is going, with the US government redacting and outright erasing historic content, publishers segmenting content by region (and also sometimes redacting/censoring it), and CloudFlare shitting all over everything, I think it's time for me to start my #archiving and #DataHoarding journey.

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #DataHoarder

github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveB

GitHubGitHub - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox: 🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

#AskFedi
How to archive Google Group messages? I want to archive #BosNet messages (which were copied into GG), retaining the thread structure, if possible, but if not, an enormous PDF would be better than nothing.
HOW? Can I plug the group page into the WayBack machine, or would that just save the one page? Would ArchiveWeb.page do this?
Also found the direct link to bit.listserv.bosnet and many others, but can't open the link w/o a reader.
#archiving #ArchiveWeb #UseNet #Bosnia #BalkansNet

Archiving Gmail - help?
I want to download all of my email from the beginning of my account until 2023 and then wipe it off the Gmail servers. I am not sure how to do this, because every solution I have found so far will synchronize my storage solution to my Gmail acocunt.

With Thunderbird I can go POP to delete all new incoming messages, but that is kind of the opposite of what I am looking for.

Ideas?
#email #privacy #archiving

What technology would you suggest I use to start building a web-based log/database of things in my collection/archive?

These range from books to prints to original artworks to stickers and even small physical objects.

I was looking at Zotero, which ticks a few boxes, but would prefer something that's a bit more stripped back in terms of detail, and works for a wider range of items.

Can be self-hosted, although I don't have a huge budget.

New blog post:
"If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown"

In one of Stanisław Lem's stories, "The Memoirs Found in a Bathtub," all written materials are into dust. While this is science fiction, something similar happens in our digital world.
p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/02/markd

p.migdal.plIf it is worth keeping, save it in MarkdownWhy and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse

Hey lovely techie people! I am trying to archive an abscure 3DS game that doesn't have much info on it from my own 3DS hardware - that's all fine, I have decompiled the ROM! Feeling good!

However, I have a bunch of .ANIM files and i am wondering if there is a way to convert them maybe to gif, or if there is a software to open them in and then convert to gif?

My searching through years of old forums are getting me nowhere!

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: muckrock.com/news/archives/202

Join the Slack: muckrock.com/slack/

MuckRockData Liberation Project expands transparency efforts with MuckRock and Big Local NewsThe Data Liberation Project transparency initiative is joining MuckRock, where together with the data experts at Big Local News it will expand how the community of FOIA enthusiasts requests, documents and publishes data.
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And it's officially live.

"The Video Game History Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. This library is our way of sharing our collections of rare video game history materials."

library.gamehistory.org/

library.gamehistory.orgVideo Game History Foundation Library | Video Game History Foundation Library