@dpc_chat Technology Watch Guidance Note "Defining the Designated Community" (2023) http://doi.org/10.7207/twgn23-01 mentioned by @criticalsenses in her #BDCAM25 presentation "Digital Deposit Decision-Making: The Future Audiences Decision Model" especially in the context of the question "Do the donors and depositors of the digital content have expectations about who the content is being preserved for?" #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Upcoming C2DH public exhibition @ 2-day gaming convention
Community-driven #DigitalPreservation
* Sharing disk images (abandonware sites, torrents)
* Use of emulators (e.g. DOSBox, Libretro, Lakka)
* Fan-made patches & engine recreations
* Preservation is often decentralised & grassroots (collectors, fans, online platforms)
Legal & ethical issues
* Preservation vs Piracy?
* Is fan-led sharing justified when companies don't preserve games?

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Curatorial challenges: concept & narrative flow, target audience, games accessibility (game play, interfaces, latency, authors’ rights, etc.), nostalgic value, balance between triple-A best-sellers & less obvious choices
How to present games: emulation vs. old gaming console, gameplay relevance & contemporary significance
"Piracy proof (sort of... LOL)"
(with a nod to @misty's work) #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Environmentally sustainable infrastructure for computationally intensive work in digital cultural heritage: the cases of born-digital archives and AI-based systems"
The report mentioned by Jane Winters generated from the presentations & conversations that took place during the workshop 'Archives and the environment' 2023 https://zenodo.org/records/10066510 #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
#DigitalPreservation through emulation (using the Australian EaaSI emulation platform) for a CD-ROM archive of artworks @ Art Gallery NSW
Challenges
- Latency, lack of audio and visual synchronization
- IP permissions from creators
- EaaSI hosting resources
Archiving Australian Media Arts
- Stabilise at-risk media arts
- Develop a Community of Practice for software preservation in Australia
- Deliver access to born-digital cultural & artistic artefacts over EaaSI

Exciting news! We're thrilled to welcome the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) to the DPC as our newest Associate Member! Through their Digital Stewardship Network, COPPUL has shown incredible dedication to digital preservation across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
https://www.dpconline.org/news/new-members-of-the-dpc/coppul-joins-dpc #DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #Digipres #Community #JoinUs

Mentioned in a #BDCAM25 Lightning talk: DLF's Levels of Access, a set of format-agnostic baseline practices for born-digital access - concrete & actionable recommendations for implementing according to their needs, resources & abilities https://osf.io/r5f78/ #DigitalPreservation

Mentioned just now in one of the #BDCAM25 Lightning talks: the @dpc_chat’s Rapid Assessment Model (#DPCRAM), a #DigitalPreservation maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s #DigiPres capability & facilitate continuous improvement over time https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/dpc-ram

#BDCAM25 Really interesting presentation from @criticalsenses & colleagues at the Science Museum Group about the #DigitalPreservation of the Absolute Unit meme, as well as the first steps in the #DigiPres programme of the SGM (DigiPres policy & guidelines, Digital Asset Register, Digital Formats Complexity Scale etc.)

For those wanting to learn more about #PREMIS, the #DigiPres metadata dictionary & schema mentioned in the #BDCAM25 session on the #DigitalPreservation of complex (museum) digital objects
https://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

#BDCAM25 Bec BC & Jo Fleming (remote presentation from Sidney with a cute good-night kiss from Jo's kid): #DigitalPreservation of complex time-based artworks is like playing a game of Snakes & ladders - 1 step forward, 3 backwards
Ensure the artwork remains: authentic, able to be rendered, easily discovered, able to be displayed
Challenges:
Obsolescence
Technology-software, hardware
Resourcing-technical skills & budgets
Artist intent
Work can be displayed

#BDCAM25 Anna Mladentseva & @ndkane presenting on the
Collecting & Conservation Challenges for Mobile Apps from a museum perspective
For the V&A a 'core object' is defined, which is central to the object's understanding along with any 'auxiliary objects', including designs, complementary artefacts or documentation (textual or video). Emulation as a #DigitalPreservation strategy: VirtualBox + Android x86 / Android SDK

Starting day 2 of #BDCAM25 with a session on collecting & #DigitalPreservation of complex objects. What are "complex objects"? Very good question, with the usual #DigiPres answer "It depends". You might want to have a look at this thread for stronger opinions https://digipres.club/@BertrandCaron/114002134938577661

#BDCAM25 Lightning talks
Another #DigitalPreservation challenge - archiving of translation technologies: preserving of an accessible yet slowly disappearing generation of both obsolete machines and early versions of more recent software. Challenges: combination of non-digital, digitized and born-digital tools, platformization of the profession and practices, the growing proportion of subscription-based services, the presence of AI and automation practices in the field

#DOWARC is a domain ontology for the Semantic modelling of #WebArchiving artefacts, such as WARC and CDX files, and web archiving activities. It was created as a metadata tool to support more sustainable and accessible archiving and #DigitalPreservation practices, particularly with regard to issues engendered by intensive versioning activities, such as lack of context and rise in storage demands. https://github.com/DOWARC/dowarc #BDCAM25

#BDCAM25 Huellas Incómodas (Uncomfortable Footprints) is a #DigitalPreservation initiative that works to document, contextualise and generate a public legacy of collective memory and the right to truth, based on #feminist social struggles in #LatinAmerica. The project arises from the ephemeral nature of expressions of protest in the physical and digital public space, which is what we call Footprints, and intervenes against the urge to erase them. https://idrhku.org/huellasincomodas/

As with other aspects of #DigitalPreservation, Rosario Rogel-Salazar's & Alan Colín-Arce's #BDCAM25 presentation "Latin American Feminist Organizations in the Archived Websites" shows the huge divide between the Global South & the Global North in terms of #WebArchiving, especially websites presenting radical ideas or those for black, migrant, & indigenous women

Colleagues in #DigitalPreservation, academia & #DigitalHumanities from Europe, US, Canada & Australia in my first #BDCAM25 workshop
"Supporting Computational Research on Born-Digital Collections with the Archive Research Compute Hub (ARCH)" with Jefferson Bailey & Ian Milligan https://easychair.org/smart-program/BDCAM25/2025-04-02.html#talk:272734

Brilliant floppy disk badges at the #BDCAM25 Conference #DigitalPreservation #DigiPres