New blog post: lessons from downloading every issue of an undownloadable magazine.
https://savestate.site/lessons-from-downloading-every-issue-of-an-undownloadable-magazine/
Cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen died Monday.
Many are celebrating him for "Dry Bones," his great life's work.
But he has a lesser-known legacy: as a tech innovator who brought humor and humanity to the cold silicon world of computers.
We're pleased to share our April newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/ria/dri-april-2025-news-and-events
Read on for news of new collections in the DRI repository, #OpenResearch developments in Ireland, and upcoming #DigiPres training events and workshops.
Subscribe: https://dri.ie/dri-friends-newsletter/ #DigiPresNews
File formats as Emoji: 0xffae
by @beet_keeper
tldr: https://emoji.exponentialdecay.co.uk
File Formats As Emoji (0xFFAE or 0xffae) might be my most random file format hack yet. Indeed, it is a random page generator! But it generates random pages of file formats represented as Emoji.
The idea came in 2016 with radare releasing a new version that supported an emoji hexdump. I wondered whether I could do something fun combining file
We're pleased to share a new publication on ‘A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey’, a digital resource gathering historic Irish #OrdnanceSurvey maps into one place, developed by DRI in collaboration with the OS200 project: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.288 #Mapping #OS #DigiPres
Join our #DPClinic on April 25th where John Gostick will discuss Cambridge University Libraries' approach to preservation infrastructure and worksflows!
Register at: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/484/-/dpclinic-april-preservation-infrastructure-and-workflows
All are welcome 
And another! I believe a build from the same date is on Hidden Palace, though this seems to have a different serial? Not sure on the differences as I've not had time to look.
https://archive.org/details/mass-effect-2-2009-12-16-microsoft-xbox-360-beta-1593.02-rc2
For those that missed it, last year I published a dive into the files and formats of the Titan A.E. demo. There's this and more available on our blog for those interested in #gamedev and #digipres, with more on the way!
https://talonbrave.info/2024/06/14/poking-titanae.html
niche question time! i'm trying to figure out what PREMIS event type would express "destroyed original carrier." If you use PREMIS and record this info, what value do you use? https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/preservation/eventType.html #preservation #digipres
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
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)
1/...
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.
