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petersuber<p>Update. "<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SciOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciOp</span></a> is part of Safeguarding Research &amp; Culture (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SRC</span></a>). The bits must flow: let us resurrect the ancient art of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Bittorrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bittorrent</span></a> to ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear."<br><a href="https://sciop.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sciop.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preservation</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Takedowns</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. "The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It"<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/trump-history-websites.html</span></a></p><p>"Thousands of…govt web pages [have] been taken down or modified, including content about vaccines, hate crimes, low-income children, opioid addiction and veterans, before a court order temporarily blocked part of the sweeping erasure. A Justice Department database tracking criminal charges and convictions linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was removed. Segments of data sets are gone, some of the experts who produced them were dismissed, and many mentions of words like “Black,” “women” and “discrimination” have evaporated…“This is not a cost-cutting mechanism,” said Kenny Evans, who studies science and technology policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and runs the White House Scientists Archive at the school. 'This slide toward secrecy and lack of transparency is an erosion of democratic norms.'" </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preservation</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Takedowns</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Jess F<p>niche question time! i'm trying to figure out what PREMIS event type would express "destroyed original carrier." If you use PREMIS and record this info, what value do you use? <a href="https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/preservation/eventType.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">id.loc.gov/vocabulary/preserva</span><span class="invisible">tion/eventType.html</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan</p><p><a href="https://goughlui.com/2025/03/23/optical-discs-from-japan-part-6-tdk-uv-guard-fuji-lg-sony-maxell-cmc/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">goughlui.com/2025/03/23/optica</span><span class="invisible">l-discs-from-japan-part-6-tdk-uv-guard-fuji-lg-sony-maxell-cmc/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Testing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Testing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DVD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DVD</span></a>-R <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CD</span></a>-R <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpticalDisks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpticalDisks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preservation</span></a></p>
supersole<p>💾 🧶 Floppy disks and knitted jumpers<br><a href="https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalpreservation-blog.lib.c</span><span class="invisible">am.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521</span></a></p><p>(And the other posts all look interesting)</p><p><a href="https://fedi.5013.es/tags/archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archives</span></a> <a href="https://fedi.5013.es/tags/digitalarchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalarchives</span></a> <a href="https://fedi.5013.es/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a></p>
Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers<p>Sony seems to be taking game preservation seriously.</p><p>Sony has been backing up its PS5 game builds as part of a preservation effort </p><p><a href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/sony-has-been-backing-up-its-ps5-game-builds-as-part-of-a-preservation-effort-150025423.html?src=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">engadget.com/gaming/playstatio</span><span class="invisible">n/sony-has-been-backing-up-its-ps5-game-builds-as-part-of-a-preservation-effort-150025423.html?src=rss</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/Sony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sony</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/PS5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PS5</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/Preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preservation</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a></p>
Library Juice Academy<p>Finally: </p><p>This month we're featuring the Certificate in Digital Curation 💻</p><p>This prepares you to undertake projects in <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/curation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>curation</span></a>, including <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/collection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collection</span></a> development, rights and access, and digital <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a>, with an understanding of professional <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> and responsible <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/stewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stewardship</span></a> </p><p>Learn more: <a href="https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/certificate/digital-curation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">libraryjuiceacademy.com/certif</span><span class="invisible">icate/digital-curation/</span></a></p>
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖<p>authorities are prioritising <a href="https://mas.to/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> over <a href="https://mas.to/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a>.</p><p>🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅</p>
matt sephton<p>I am proud to announce that my Macintosh Magazine Media project has surpassed my self-imposed goal of 1 MILLION FILES, an achievement that fills me with both immense satisfaction and slight bewilderment. <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marchintosh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/cdrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdrom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/files" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>files</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/03/28/macintosh-magazine-media-1-million-files/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/28/macintosh-magazine-media-1-million-files/</span></a></p>
ℒӱḏɩę :blahaj:<p>Data being seeded by my torrent server</p><p>Help preserve data being deleted by fascists: <a href="https://lydie.cc/data.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lydie.cc/data.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/datahoarder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datahoarder</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/datapreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datapreservation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/usgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usgovernment</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DataRescue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataRescue</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/torrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>torrent</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a></p>
LierschIT<p>Stop Destroying Videogames - Der EU Initiative zur Erhaltung von Videospielen als Kulturgut fehlen noch ungefähr 500.000 Unterschriften. Die benötigten sieben "Schwellen"länder sind bereits erreicht.</p><p>Also falls ihr wollt, ab rein da und unterschreiben. Oder darauf hoffen das <a href="https://mastodon.liersch.it/tags/GOG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOG</span></a> euer Lieblingsspiel in die Finger bekommt und erhalten tut.</p><p><a href="https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/</span><span class="invisible">screen/home</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.liersch.it/tags/Videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Videogames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.liersch.it/tags/Preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.liersch.it/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.liersch.it/tags/initiative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>initiative</span></a></p>
Paul Houle<p>📼 Silent Hill 4, Deus Ex And F.E.A.R. Among Latest Games To Enter GOG's Preservation Program</p><p><a href="https://kotaku.com/gog-preservation-program-silent-hill-4-fear-deus-ex-1851771517" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kotaku.com/gog-preservation-pr</span><span class="invisible">ogram-silent-hill-4-fear-deus-ex-1851771517</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a></p>
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Update. "As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them"
npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-53265

"After President Trump's inauguration in January, some federal web pages vanished. While…were removed entirely, many came back online with changes that…officials said were made to conform to Trump's executive orders to remove "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies." Thousands of datasets were wiped — mostly at agencies focused on science and the environment…Information about climate change, reproductive health, gender identity and sexual orientation also have been on the chopping block…The #InternetArchive [@internetarchive] is among the few efforts that exist to catch the stuff that falls through the digital cracks, while also making that information accessible to the public. Six weeks into the new administration, #WaybackMachine director Graham said, the Internet Archive had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that had existed on U.S. government websites that were expunged after Trump's inauguration."

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Update. "US anti-terror legislation must not be weaponised against libraries"
timeshighereducation.com/opini

"Scholars have attempted to safeguard their work by turning to sites deemed to be beyond the reach of the US government…However, even these safe havens may be at risk if a seemingly innocuous tax bill completes its course through Congress. H.R. 9495, the “Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act”, was passed by the US House of Representatives in November 2024 and is currently before the Senate. It proposes…to strip non-profit status from organisations deemed to be “supporting terrorism”. But its broad language, lack of evidentiary requirements, and potential for political weaponisation should send a chill down the spines of all higher education professionals. After all, who is to define terrorism? History is filled with examples of liberation movements and resistance groups initially labelled 'terrorists' by powerful states. And who is to define 'support'?"

Times Higher Education (THE) · US anti-terror legislation must not be weaponised against librariesThe terror financing bill’s broad language may require international efforts to defend academic freedom, says Caroline Ball
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Update. From @kfitz: "Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder"
about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/

"#KnowledgeCommons has applied for a significant grant from Lever for Change to build, implement, and sustain a digital preservation network that will be free from the US government’s, and any other single government’s, interference…KC is a #nonprofit, community-governed, #OpenAccess platform for creating and sharing knowledge world-wide…But, in the present moment, our US-centeredness is a significant threat to that mission. We propose to establish three linked but independent nonprofit public-benefit companies incorporated in the US, Europe, and South Africa, all dedicated to the social and technological processes of gathering, preserving, and ensuring the public accessibility of academic research."

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Update. "SAFE-Track: Secure Anonymous Federal Evidence, Data and Analysis Tracking"
datafoundation.org/pages/safet

"The Data Foundation's SAFE-Track portal provides a secure, encrypted channel for documenting changes to federal evidence and #data activities. As a trusted, non-partisan authority on government data and evidence policy, the #DataFoundation maintains this platform to systematically understand and analyze impacts on America's evidence infrastructure…SAFE-Track enables confidential reporting through:
* Complete #anonymity for submissions
* End-to-end #encryption of all data
* No requirement for email or personal identification
* Option for secure follow-up communication through anonymous conversation codes
* Protections against collection of personally identifiable information."

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Data FoundationSAFE-TRACKSAFE-Track is the Data Foundation's secure, encrypted portal for anonymous reporting of federal data and evidence changes.