A new way of preserving video game history.

GitHub Arctic Code Vault has likely inadvertently captured sensitive patient medical records from multiple healthcare facilities. The private data was leaked on GitHub repositories last year that are now part of a collection of open-source contributions bound to last a 1,000 years.

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RO-Crate is a community effort to establish a lightweight approach to packaging research data with their metadata. It is based on schema.org annotations in JSON-LD, and aims to make best-practice in formal metadata description accessible and practical for use in a wider variety of situations, from an individual researcher working with a folder of data, to large data-intensive computational research environments.

Looks interesting. Uses the Oxford Common File System and a schema.org knockoff.

Over 90 percent of pre-2000 gaming source code may already be gone.

Since the advent of digital scholarship in the humanities, decades of extensive, distributed scholarly efforts have produced a digital scholarly record that is increasingly scattered, heterogeneous, and independent of curatorial institutions. Digital scholarship produces collections with unique scholarly and cultural value—collections that serve as hubs for collaboration and communication, engage broad audiences, and support new research. Yet, lacking systematic support for digital scholarship in libraries, digital humanities collections are facing a widespread crisis of sustainability. This paper provides outcomes of a multimodal study of sustainability challenges confronting digital collections in the humanities, characterizing institutional and community-oriented strategies for sustaining collections. Strategies that prioritize community engagement with collections and the maintenance of sociotechnical workflows suggest possibilities for novel approaches to collaborative, community-centred sustainability for digital humanities collections.

Adobe’s once-mighty plug-in will stop working soon, not a moment too soon. Some old Flash games, however, are great—and clever workarounds will save them.

The preservation of the scholarly record has been a point of concern since the beginning of knowledge production. With print publications, the responsibility rested primarily with librarians, but...

Kathleen O'Neill is currently serving as one of two Staff Innovators at the Library of Congress. Their 2020 project, Born Digital Access Now!, explores existing pathways for accessing born digital materials in the Manuscript Division. In this series of blog posts, Kathleen describes the complexities of gaining access to born digital materials even before they reach researchers. This is the second post in the series and focuses on legacy file formats through the metaphor of being "lost in translation."

The gigaleak covers classics from the SNES and N64.

The registry’s data model defines what tools can be used for different digital object formats, what properties can be extracted or measured and what preservation actions can be taken. The model includes contextual and historical information on the reasons why recommendations are being given. The information is versioned and includes the tool parameters and software environments needed to execute different preservation actions so they are directly ‘executable’ by preservation systems.

Resurrecting Days of Thunder from dying floppy disks took tenacity...and a little bit of luck.

As part of Plugged in Powered Up, we have commissioned guidance on digital preservation workflows. In this guidance, a workflow is a number of connected steps that need to be followed from start to finish in order to complete a process. The guidance aims to support archives in the UK to move into active digital […]

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