Elizabeth England 🍍 @elizabeengland@digipres.club

My SAA slides & speaker notes for "If a checksum falls [/fails] in a forest..." from the panel “Opening the Black Box: Transparency and Conplexity in Digital Preservation” are available here: sched.co/ESlh

Woooooo today is the day I finally got access to APTrust. I probably shouldn't be excited because I guess that means more work for me?

Opened up the FRED all of 3 times this week, but finally have found the ideal zip tie situation to keep the cord for the imaging shelf from getting stuck 🎉 https://digipres.club/media/Lt7elEo8-NSx7GGuKfo

lol this email from SAA "Your presentation is in just three short weeks! Now that you've pulled together the content" nope, nope, haven't done that

Things I loathe: thumbs.db

WWYD with an input/output error when disk imaging optical media using dcfldd? Use ddrescue?

advice: what would you assign someone as some good primer readings on digital preservation & digital forensics? This is for a current MLIS student who hasn't taken any courses in this area yet. cc @amelish

people who accession/image/otherwise manage internal hard drives: do you label directly on them with permanent marker, or do you put a sticker label on them? or something else?

apparently the file system on the disks was unreadable by FTK when imaging was attempted in 2015 😬

today is the day I call back from storage 174 5.25" floppy disks that were accessioned in 1994, discovered in a dark corner of the archives in 2013, and have eluded the past 2 digital archivists

I think there was a discussion on here a few weeks ago (@ron_houk @edsu maybe?) about the all-virtual anthropological conference happening...JHU hosted the website and provided technical support, so now a discussion is starting about how we're going to preserve & provide access to the conference environment (recorded video of the conference, website, twitter feed, etc.)

web archiving folks: do you/how do you document decisions such as collection scope rules? I'm struggling with the transparency/authority of such decisions, like: who decided to block this subdomain, when, and why? Where should that info live? cc @sabrams @amelish @landlibrarian @joe

program available here: https://britishart.yale.edu/event/symposium-permanence-preservation-born-digital-artists-archives

recommended livestream today: "Is This Permanence: Preservation of Born-digital Artists’ Archives" at Yale Center for British Art: https://britishart.yale.edu/multimedia-video/26/7206

do I need the Library of Congress baseball hat as worn by Carla Hayden y/n https://library-of-congress-shop.myshopify.com/products/lc-baseball-cap?variant=1172301209

I could read about file naming conventions forever: "What’s in a Name? On ‘Meaningfulness’ and Best Practices in Filenaming within the LAM Community" http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/13438

has anyone experimented with ArchivesSpace digital object plug-in for Archive-It? https://github.com/NYULibraries/Archivesspace-DO-Plugin/wiki/Archive-It-Integration

my latest sampling technique for which I Will Not Win Any Awards https://digipres.club/media/D1ecX7fe5dv-zrxoRCs

first day back at work post-CNI post-Joshua Tree/Palm Springs vacation & still not out of my email hole. AHHH it never ends. But I got a cute card from @sabrams in the snail mail 🎉