Dragan Espenschied @despens@digipres.club
The Werner Herzog of Digital Preservation
tell that to the traces of this not even too obscure artist from not even 10 years ago
The beginning of this week I was at this meeting "A Landscape of Federated Wikibases" at Wikimedia Deutschland, which I helped to organize. We created some very interesting things. Actually Linked Data is coming.
Birdsite: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23wbmodeling&src=typd
"Folks keep using Excel despite of…" Episode 1024:
It seems close to impossible to export a CSV file that actually uses a comma for the separator. 😂
The new version of https://webrecorder.io is out. Release notes here: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/jun/06/collect-curate-and-share-your-archives/
I really love having a machine running Classic that I can remote desktop into. It's been extremely valuable for running classic Mac software - and since it's a PowerMac G5, it's faster than any machine shipped with OS 9.
I've been using some 68k Mac-only software recently for studying some obsolete file formats, and it's surprisingly convenient and blazing fast this way. I'm finding it more convenient than an emulator.
https://digipres.club/media/OqUzagCdjm1NB6TFmXI https://digipres.club/media/BMpxU5uDA4RlEQlIoEI
Does anyone here recall URL schemata of when Youtube was embedded via Flash?
I'm facing URLs like http://www.youtube.com/p/F4B63F92D2DC4E98
with a "p" in there, which was maybe referring to a playlist?
Neither Chrome nor Firefox rewrite this to a contemporary HTML5 embed, as they would for other Youtube Flash embeds.
Any idea what this was?
I love how someone in 2007 set their flickr name to "login" so now https://flickr.com/login still just goes to this one random person's page... and because of that, all their pictures have like, for example, 13,000+ views and 2 likes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/login/8114970036/in/dateposted/
Internet Girlfriend Club Volume 7 (Special time-crunch edition) is la-la-la-live! 📟 😽 💃 💖http://internetgirlfriend.club/
There was a time, a decade ago, when the EU funded a digital preservation project https://web.archive.org/web/20120226055846/http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu:80/
They created a bunch of videos, here is one of them:
https://youtu.be/pbBa6Oam7-w
Today going to the V&A in London to explore some curatorial challenges with web archives.
There was a time when I played DJ shows with the audio menus of SEGA 16 bit cartridges, switching between PAL and NTSC to change the tempo of the music.
Learning or teaching #digipres? Here are free educational resources from my book #Re_collection with Rick Rinehart, including interactive infographics, video tutorials, and quizzes. http://re-collection.net/educational_resources.html
I'm very much into this new pre-release of BeakerBrowser https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/releases/tag/0.8.0-prerelease.5
Oh shit, git!
http://ohshitgit.com/
Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation has this chicken and egg problem where you can't search for how to get yourself out of a mess, unless you already know the name of the thing you need to know about in order to fix your problem.
So here are some bad situations I've gotten myself into, and how I eventually got myself out of them in plain english*.
Some upcoming software preservation webinars from the Software Preservation Network http://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/events
A nice short writeup that captures some of the amazingness that was Ethics & Archiving the Web https://www.artforum.com/diary/maggie-foucault-on-the-national-forum-on-ethics-and-archiving-the-web-74796 #eaw18
Taeyoon Choi kicks off the workshop "Distributed Web of Care" at #eaw18 with the code of conduct.
Today trying Mastalab...