If any of you need an intro or deeper dive into MySQL and PHP for humanities collections and DH projects, Dartmouth’s @nmdjohn is your man. There are a few seats left in his online course on Digital Collections and Exhibitions starting in a week http://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu
📝 📷 ➡️ 🖥❓What's your favorite software+hardware for scanning still images or digitizing archival docs—ideally open source? Uber-conservator @unstablearchive and uber-preservationist @ablwr would love Twitter replies or notes added to this Google Doc! https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2016/12/02/minimum-viable-transfer-station-documentation/ #digipres [repeated from Twitter]
Hey New Yorkers--I'm in the city Saturday 13 April and happy to share a coffee or similar with fellow #digipres folks. (What's the Mastodon equivalent of "tweeps"? I hope it's not "poots.")
Danes rule stream-ripping illegal #digipres
http://twitter.com/DigitCurator/status/1072233935000748033
What do checksums, emulators, and DNA storage have in common? All taught in my online #digipres course this spring. Boy I have fun with this class. http://bit.ly/1hcnyHv
Some takeaways from this highly entertaining convo with LoC film guru Geo Willeman: the most volatile film medium is ironically the most stable; famous directors are shooting digital and printing on analog; there's a mystery reel locked in the same safe as the Zapruder film 🔫 🎞 🗄 #filmPreservation #digipres #filmHistory http://digitalcuration.umaine.edu/teleconferences/dig_willeman_teleconf_2018.html
MT @DigitCurator: Can we link public and private Web archives without compromising privacy? This proposed framework uses Memento aggregators to negotiate between them https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.00871.pdf
Microsoft just surpassed Google in market cap. Why? Because Google ignored the cloud. Like most digital preservationists. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/29/microsoft-passes-alphabet-by-market-cap.htm
Running the 1940s EDSAC emulator inside a Windows emulator inside Mac OS--to play Tic Tac Toe https://digipres.club/media/BYjZRAPSndRy90BBU-4
Looking forward to hearing some neat #digipres research in indigenous archiving, community self-archiving, and distributed collections featured at Friday's Yale symposium “Is This Permanence.” My keynote, entitled “Your Archival Format Will Not Save You,” should be live-streamed from 3:30-4:30pm #PBDAA18 #IsThisPermanence
I wrote a post on how the upcoming Yale #digipres symposium on May 11th revisits the notion of "permanence." #ndsa http://www.blog.still-water.net/2018/04/yale-keynote-asks-whether-art-can-be-permanent-in-the-digital-age/ https://digipres.club/media/UcA5guARSOF8aRKi4tE
Really stoked to keynote “Is This Permanence?“ conference at Yale on May 11th https://ndsr-program.org/2018/04/03/is-this-permanence-preservation-of-born-digital-artists-archives/
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
Know anyone who wants to learn #digipres online? A few seats left in my Digital Preservation course starting Wed 24 January http://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu https://digipres.club/media/u1imN_Dz4za3C64SrIA
Following @despens down the rabbit hole (er, elephant trunk).
Variable Media Network http://variablemedia.net/e • Re-collection http://re-collection.net • UMaine Digital Curation http://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu