Your 1990s files are slowly turning into magnetic dust. Leontien Talboom at Cambridge University Library is leading a rescue mission for our digital past. She uses hobbyist tools to pull data from moldy disks that standard drives can't touch. She even recovered lost lectures by Stephen Hawking. You can use her Copy That Floppy! guide to save your own archives. It requires specialized hardware like the Greaseweazle to capture raw magnetic pulses. Don't wait until the iron oxide flakes off for good. Check your storage boxes for those chunky rectangles before they become silent plastic.
🧠 Magnetic decay destroys data after 20 years.
⚡ The Greaseweazle captures raw flux signals.
🎓 Cambridge recovered Stephen Hawking's notes.
🔍 Follow the Copy That Floppy! guide now.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/floppy-disk-archivist-project/
#TechHistory #DataArchiving #VintageTech

If anyone is still looking for a storage for their #HomeLab I can recommend this Lenovo D3284 with 84x 3.5" bays from here: https://www.ebay.de/itm/376604039129

And interestingly it even went down in price since November when I bought mine.

799 Euro + 140 Euro shipping - that 10% discount (with max 50 Euro) = 889 Euro.

That is 95,45 cheaper than what I've paid. (Note, no drives included).

#chaos #SelfHosting #DataArchiving

Microsoft Research (@MSFTResearch)

Project Silica가 보로실리케이트 유리에 데이터를 인코딩하는 새로운 기법을 네이처 저널에 소개했습니다. 이 기술은 매체 비용을 낮추고 기록·읽기 시스템을 단순화하면서 10,000년 보존을 지원하도록 설계된 진보를 제시합니다(관련 논문 링크 포함).

https://x.com/MSFTResearch/status/2024162504348225677

#projectsilica #dataarchiving #longtermstorage #microsoft #nature

Tôi đang kỹ thuật）：如何設計一個搜索庫存200,000 PDF trangkí trên 128GB trạng xác? Gợi ý công cụ, cấu trúc dữ liệu, và kiến trúc tìm kiếm khôngाने? Mục tiêu: Cần truy cập أدري online với máy tính thông dụng 20 năm sau.

#Verbatim #PDF #DataArchiving #OfflineSearch #TechSolutions #VietnamTech #DatabaseDesign

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http://Archive.org

Tuyển dụng: Vị trí scrape 300.000 tiêu đề sách PDF từ AbeBooks, tìm file từ Wayback Machine/Anna's Archive. Tổng 4TB dữ liệu sẽ được lưu trữ vào đĩa quang 128GB (Verbatim/Panasonic) để đảm bảo đọc được 100 năm. Ngân sách: $700 (chưa vật tư).

#TuyểnDụng #Scraping #LưuTrữDữLiệu #PDF #AbeBooks
#Hiring #DataScraping #DataArchiving #PDF

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1o4te1o/hiring_scrape_300000_pdfs_and_archive_to_128_gb/

Terence Eden: You don’t need an API key to archive Twitter Data. “Apparently there’s no need for IP laws any more, so here’s a way to archive high-fidelity Twitter data without signing up for an expensive API key. This is perfect for academics wishing to preserve Tweets, journalists wanting to download evidence, or simply embedding content without leaking user data back to Twitter.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/16/terence-eden-you-dont-need-an-api-key-to-archive-twitter-data/

If I had to pick one YouTube channel to archive, it would be the PBS CrashCourse channel.

Actually someone should probably back that channel up before the republicans dismantle PBS. I might try to do that myself soon once I get the time. #youtube #archive #dataarchiving

Interested in #OpenScience & the state of #DataArchiving in ancient #genomics research (maybe a bit niche, but still 😉)?

My colleagues Anders Bergström, Tina Warinner, & I, all working in #aDNA have published an invited commentary piece describing the challenges in both sequencing data & #metadata archiving. We propose some solutions (some active!) to improve adherence to #FAIR in #palaeogenomics. We hope some may be a model for the wider #ArchaeologicalSciences field.

https://rdcu.be/d21Kn