ResearchBuzz: FirehoseKa Puna O Kaloʻi: $150K Mellon grant supports library’s social media archive project . “The Mellon Foundation recently awarded $150,000 as part of a one-year planning grant to the University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu James & Abigail Campbell Library, UH Maui College Library, and UH Mānoa for a collaborative project to lay foundational work on a social media archive.”
Digital Preservation Coalition: Archiving Facebook, Right Now. “Archiving social media is a long-standing concern for digital preservation, and a challenge that only seems to get more difficult as the years go by. Recently, we’ve had a couple of members raise questions in this area, and so I spent a little time looking at a specific example: If you need to archive a Facebook account now, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/20/digital-preservation-coalition-archiving-facebook-right-now/
Doing History in Public: Web Archives as Big Data: experimenting with the internet as a historical source. “One very interesting aspect of historical research through web sources is that content cannot be disentangled from methodology. I had no previous experience dealing with the internet as a historical source, and this represented a unique opportunity to plunge into this new type of archive, […]
NiemanLab: It just got easier to make an archival copy of that website you’re digging into. “Today Bellingcat, the OSINT-fueled news organization, announced a new version of its tool Auto Archiver, which it describes as ‘a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down’ — a critical need for any reporting on our lives online.”
How-To Geek: The 8 Best Internet Archive Alternatives for Digging Up Old Stuff. “Until recently, the Internet Archive has been my go-to wayback machine for accessing websites, documents, and files that are no longer available on their original sites. But lately, I’ve discovered some other sites that let you dig up old stuff in totally new ways. These are some of the best Internet Archive […]
CGWORLD#04【Golaem】群衆を制す！ Maya＆UEのシミュレーション活用術 - 連載
https://cgworld.jp/regular/202507-cgw324-tr04.html
#cgworld #Maya #TECH_ROOM_このソフト_どこまでやれる #Unreal_Engine #TECHROOM #テックルーム #Borndigital #オートデスク #マヤ #シミュレーション
Caylin SmithIn the latest post on the Cambridge University Libraries Digital Preservation blog, we explore the unique challenges and considerations involved in preserving Minecraft Cambridge.
We'd love to hear how others are tackling the preservation of community-led digital culture. Are you archiving born-digital campus life?
#DigitalPreservation #BornDigital #Minecraft #Archives #HigherEd #CambridgeUniversity #DigitalHeritage #Library
Archiving a Pixelated Pandemic: Part 2 — Minecraft at Cambridge University Libraries
In recent weeks, I have received a number of questions about videogame preservation at Cambridge University Libraries (CUL). While videogames are not a primary focus of our active collecting, the…
Betsy Roberts Miller ⁂Filmed on 15 May 2025, a panel discussion featuring reps from the Library of Congress & the US Government Publishing Office exploring how 2 federal agencies are tackling the preservation & public access of born-digital government information. This highlights the Library of Congress Web Archiving Program's 25-year milestone, its evolving tools & strategies, & ongoing efforts to enhance public access to 100+ curated web archive collections.
Internet Archive Blog: Wayback Machine to Hit ‘Once-in-a-Generation Milestone’ this October: One Trillion Web Pages Archived. “This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That’s one trillion memories, moments, and movements—preserved for the public, forever.”
COPIM[BLOG] Archiving and Preserving my PhD Thesis: Reflections for Further Research
New WP7 research associate, Holly Turpin, reflects on her own experience of archiving and preserving a #PhD #Thesis and related outputs, as a means of kickstarting further research as part of Open Book Futures.
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