anyone know of articles/blogs and/or has personal experience with:
AI-bot scraper hinderung web archiving / web preservation

let me know!

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 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/

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

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

'Monitoring Carbon Emissions at Home'.

Ross Spencer, @beet_keeper, explores the carbon emissions of working from home in his latest blog for the OPF. How does his computer use impact the environment? Check it out! https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-carbon-emissions-at-home/?q=1
#CarbonFootprint #digipres #remote

Mini #digipres thread about invalid #PDF files, #JHOVE and PDF-HUL-114

( @BertrandCaron is leaving the old house, it's time to step up!)

At the beginning, there was a PDF 1.7 file donated to the #BnF and declared invalid by JHOVE 1.32.0. I start my investigation to find out if this is serious and if I'm going to repair the file (this is the way @mickylindlar told us to go)

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The Xiph.Org Foundation has for many years hosted a collection of #lossless audio and video test clips to support the compression research community.

Unfortunately, that server may be going away soon. I'm looking at various options to keep the data online, but I wondered if it would be appropriate to upload a copy to @internetarchive The current collection is around 20 TB.

If so, what would be a good format? For clips originating in yuv, ffv1 or lossless vp9 compression is probably a good choice. (Uncompressed is usually best for benchmarking, but people can extract on their own.) Downloading multi-GB files is easier than it used to be. However, the highest quality for some clips are directories of png, tiff, or exr files. Not sure what to do with those. Tar them up? Will archive.org fall over if I upload 20,000 files as part of the same object?

Our March newsletter is out! We're pleased to share news of new #DigitalCulturalHeritage collections in the DRI repository, #OpenResearch developments in Ireland, and upcoming #DigiPres workshops at DRI.

Read the latest issue and subscribe https://dri.ie/dri-friends-newsletter/ #DigiPresNews

Join us today at 2pm UTC for an informal 30-minutes #DPConnect session with #digitalpreservation colleagues and friends from all over the world!
https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/464/144/dpconnect

All are welcome for #digipres chats, come share your work challenges or just say hi!
️ Last session before our April break! We'll be back monthly starting May 8th, continuing our #digipres community connections on the second Thursday of each month.

#DigitalPreservation #DPC #Community #LetsConnect #JoinUs

So, with the release of the job ad below, the cat is out of the bag. After nearly 14 years, I will be leaving the DPC in a couple of weeks. It was a tough decision to make but I'm excited to take on some new challenges (more on that coming soon...)

I'll probably take some time soon to reflect on the last 14 years but in the meantime, if anyone is interested in the post and wants to hear more about what it entails, just give me a shout!

https://www.dpconline.org/news/job-vacancies/hgp-hwd-dpc

One of the car stereos I use has the strangest bug: Any #m4a file over 4:30 (4 minutes, 30 seconds) will skip for a second at 4:30, play for another 30 seconds or so, then just go onto the next track. Music from #iTunes or things from YouTube make no difference. Simply copying from .m4a to .aac with #ffmpeg avoids this issue. #digipres #aac

Occupé que j'étais à préparer ma transition vers la @tibhannover , je n'ai pas eu l'occasion de rappeler que l'échéance pour proposer un article #digipres à #iPRES2025 était le 14 avril.

Venez, on a des cookies, des autocollants à coller sur son ordinateur et surtout on est super sympas.

https://www.ipres2025.nz/call-for-contributions

This morning kicked off the #BitsandBots #StudyGroup with a great start! Monthly meetings will include catch-ups & expert-led sessions on APIs, GitHub & more. You can also choose between the Python or Front-End development Track. Read more: https://openpreservation.org/blogs/study-group-bits-and-bots-here-we-go-again/?q=1
#DigiPres #OpenSource

Unplanned #DigitalPreservation advocacy moment during a radio interview about an new online exhibition we launched.

Archivist Katherine C'Ailceta totally nailed it!

Done as part of a radio interview by RNZ Concert host, Bryan Crump, about the NZ Symphony Orchestra online exhibition

Off-air recording: https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/three-to-seven/audio/2018980311/nzso-s-history-at-your-fingertips

Online exhibition: https://www.archives.govt.nz/discover-our-stories/the-new-zealand-symphony-orchestra-nzso

#DigiPres (1/7)

#Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition: status update on our endeavour to become the hub of all video game metadata: 110,000 items, 70 new identifier properties, and a lot of video game genres.

https://commonists.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-2024-edition/

#DPC members! Join us this Friday for an engaging Audiovisual Special Interest Group (AVSIG) session featuring one of our newest DPC members, RTÉ Archives.

Presentation by Adrienne Warburton (RTÉ Archives) on mass digitization of audio and audiovisual assets and RTÉ's #digitalpreservation work
Friday March 28th, 2-3pm UTC
Online members-only event
Register now: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/475/-/audio-visual-special-interest-group