Digitizing Domesday Disks
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/23/digitizing-domesday-disks/
tell that to the traces of this not even too obscure artist from not even 10 years ago
Stephen Wolfram: "Just copied a notebook (on a floppy) from Mathematica V1 (1988) to V11 (2018) ... and it JUST WORKED! (And the code still runs!)"
https://twitter.com/stephen_wolfram/status/1009273778524819456
Me: python project of 1.5 years ago, forgot to commit requirements.txt. headbanging.
Curatorial Pirates: Torrent Internet Clubs May One Day Be the Last Real Video Stores
https://filmmakermagazine.com/104934-curatorial-pirate/
“Confessions of a Disk Cracker”
De-protecting and archiving old software before they’re lost to time
https://paleotronic.com/2018/06/15/confessions-of-a-disk-cracker-the-secrets-of-4am/
"Let’s Encrypt runs on 1.5 rack of hardware and is maintained by 12 ppl only!"
https://twitter.com/xme/status/1007190982989840385
#maintenance and #repair
Today, we're opening up the great library of source code https://www.softwareheritage.org/2018/06/07/opening-the-door/
Live from @unesco headquarters in Paris.
@swheritage @rdicosmo @webmink
#OpenRefine 3.0 beta released! With a lot of #Wikidata inside, and many other very useful features and bug fixes. Thanks to everybody involved ❤
How do you define digital preservation? What is the relationship between that and a digital repository and management system? 🤔
#digipres
(Inspired by @cm_harlow@twitter.com tweet, thought digipres.club is the best place to ask this question.)
@joshuatj Digital preservation is access, in the future. So if you’re not able to access the content now, you’re not preserving it.
for my personal backups i've used for more than a decade http://rsnapshot.org (it's a simple perl script). it's time to upgrade, so i'm moving to restic https://restic.net/ (but rsnapshot is still running).
features:
cryptography
https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/
data model
https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/v0.7.3/references.html
dedup
https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/v0.7.3/references.html#backups-and-deduplication
http rest backend
https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/v0.7.3/rest_backend.html
https://jpmens.net/2017/08/22/my-backup-software-of-choice-restic/
Vidscan, a paperless magazine that can be recorded off television - ads on Mondo 2000 issue 1 (1989)
https://archive.org/stream/Mondo.2000.Issue.01.1989#page/n33/mode/2up https://digipres.club/media/Jnli-pl6LIeM9U4CLa0
for no reason, the memory of "_why the lucky stiff" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff has flashed in my head.
at that time i was very attracted by hoodwink.d, basically an idea of web annotation 10 years ago
"What we're doing is clandestine
off-web experimentation and it is of the utmost importance that we
remain concealed and uncatalogued by the major search engines"
— http://web.archive.org/web/20051125122020/http://hoodwinkd.hobix.com/
— http://ruby-talk.ruby-lang.narkive.com/buiXXTZh/what-is-hoodwink-d
— https://www.thecodingforums.com/threads/ann-the-mousehole-proxy-1-0-a-greasemonkey-alternative.824085/
do you remember more of it?
I’m trying an experiment in opening up how we run our open source projects. If you’re interested in what we’re up to at the UK Web Archive feel free to drop in during our Online Hours... http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2018/05/online-hours.html
@raffaele @ntnsndr @alcinnz @edsu
PWP's not done yet, so it's an "ongoing attempt" rather than a "previous" one.
Would love help on it regardless!
https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/publ-wg/
There is some interesting work going on at the w3c & ietf on packaging web content for offline use:
https://github.com/WICG/webpackage#readme
A big part of their focus (compared to previous efforts) seems to be on using service workers to deliver content offline in such a way that the authenticity can be verified without an internet connection.
current reading:
The Stuff of Bits
An Essay on the Materialities of Information
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stuff-bits
1993 - WordPerfect - Imperfect Presentations Commercial
https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/comments/89qult/commercial_for_wordperfect_1993/
The landscape of software ontologies
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pathways-discovery-free.pdf https://digipres.club/media/a823c8rfYpS7P-3Zzv8
Good Twitter thread on JavaScript changes that may break a number of older sites, and the environment in which it's happening. https://twitter.com/mountain_ghosts/status/971587842831978497