Thorsted#fileformat Friday! This that time of year! Everyone's favorite topic, Taxes! #digipres https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2026/04/03/turbotax/
Uncommon Ephemera"Why don't you just apply for a grant?"
IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums. $5K-$50K. For museums with budgets under $250K. My operation is definitely under $250K. But "individual" isn't a museum, regardless of how many filmstrips have come through. Federal tax dollars. #preservation #IMLS #grants #museums #archives #digipres
Andy JacksonI'm very excited about this upcoming (paid/members) DPC event I've been putting together... Every Object An Orchestra: A Software Preservation & Emulation Showcase https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/770/-/every-object-an-orchestra-a-software-preservation-emulation-showcase #DigiPres
Ross SpencerDigital dark times: Salaries in digital preservation
by @beet_keeperThe Serpentine is one of the world’s most renowned art galleries. Their exhibitions as varied as Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, and Marina Abramović. They don’t hold a permanent collection, instead, they provide a space for temporary collections and an annual pavilion, the pavilion designed by luminaries such as Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Ai Weiwei.
Given a recent job posting it looks like they are looking at maintaining their memory better and branching out into digital preservation.
Here’s the kicker — its salary band is GBP 35,000 to GBP 38,000. So it must be an entry level position, especially in London, right?
Well, let’s see what they want you to do for that price tag…
Continue reading “Digital dark times: Salaries in digital preservation”…
#Archives #Art #artGalleries #artHistory #ArtsCouncilEngland #career #digipres #DigitalArchiving #DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation #digitalPreservationIsPeople #dpip #earlyCareer #employment #GLAM #jobPostings #london #outreach #salaries #Serpentine #SerpentineGalleries #SerpentineGallery
#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈Competition for jobs is real because there are more of us, competitive salaries are not, and so we have no real job mobility.
And the rest of the ripple?
How do you hire and pay the team you need to implement the solution?
Where does the sustainable and long-living innovation happen?
I guarantee you won't be doing that for the next 4 years at a leading art gallery while you're in the weeds in your team of one.
I just despair I am looking at a salary like that in 2026.
This might look like one #digipres role in isolation, but the longer we have no activism making it clear these positions should be paid at least double, the bigger the ripple effects. Our efforts continue to be devalued.
Someone might do this role and hold onto it for dear life for the next 20 years.because of the reputation. Meanwhile, everyone else is doing the same because there are no serious ways of moving onwards as SMEs, experts, or leaders, or innovators, and earning more.
What are we doing people?
Top of the range of this role at the Serpentine in London is 38K GBP...
No biggie! Just build the system and workflows and lead the organization in #digipres initiatives...
We just don't value this role enough to offer the money associated with the technical, the curatorial, the research, the scientific aspects, and so on... in LONDON!
nbFor my English-speaking friends:
The preprint of my article here covers the founding history and backgrounds of the #DataRescue collective @SafeguardingResearch and its #OpenSource platform #SciOp + includes an IT librarians take on this project: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19218030
This is #Fediverse history not to be forgotten, that's why it is also uploaded to SciOp itself, so feel free to seed: https://sciop.net/datasets/safeguarding-research-and-culture-sciop-article-2026-german-preprint
Thanks to @jonny for helping me out on this one :))
This paper is submitted to be published with the special issue "Out of Order: Queer, Critical and Inclusive Perspectives on Order and Disruption" of the German library journal "Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis" later this year. CfP by @fuzzyleapfrog et al. is still open until mid June if you want to contribute as well: https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0060
If any German-speaking person has the time to translate my article, go for it, it's under CC-BY-SA-NC.
Happy #WorldBackupDay everyone :)
#SafeguardingResearch #DEI #ResearchData #FAIRdata #RDM #ResearchDataManagement #DigiPres #DigitalPreservation #OpenScience #Science #OpenAccess #GLAM #Libraries #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #AcademicChatter #Research #UnplugBigTech #UnplugTrump #LIS #InformationScience #LibraryScience
The preprint of my article here covers the founding history and backgrounds of the #DataRescue collective @SafeguardingResearch and its #OpenSource platform #SciOp + includes an IT librarians take on this project: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19218030
This is #Fediverse history not to be forgotten, that's why it is also uploaded to SciOp itself, so feel free to seed: https://sciop.net/datasets/safeguarding-research-and-culture-sciop-article-2026-german-preprint
Thanks to @jonny for helping me out on this one :))
This paper is submitted to be published with the special issue "Out of Order: Queer, Critical and Inclusive Perspectives on Order and Disruption" of the German library journal "Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis" later this year. CfP by @fuzzyleapfrog et al. is still open until mid June if you want to contribute as well: https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0060
If any German-speaking person has the time to translate my article, go for it, it's under CC-BY-SA-NC.
Happy #WorldBackupDay everyone :)
#SafeguardingResearch #DEI #ResearchData #FAIRdata #RDM #ResearchDataManagement #DigiPres #DigitalPreservation #OpenScience #Science #OpenAccess #GLAM #Libraries #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #AcademicChatter #Research #UnplugBigTech #UnplugTrump #LIS #InformationScience #LibraryScience
Safeguarding Research & Culture und SciOp: Datenrettung in Zeiten digitaler Bücherverbrennungen
Anfang 2025 sah sich die Scientific Community in den USA einer bisher in diesem Umfang nie dagewesenen politisch motivierten Datensäuberung durch die dort neu gewählte Regierung ausgesetzt. In einem Teil des alternativen sozialen Netzwerks Fediverse organisierte sich zu dieser Zeit eine Gruppe engagierter Freiwilliger, um letztendlich ein Guerillakollektiv zur Datenrettung zu bilden, das heute unter den Namen Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) bekannt ist. Aus dem SRC-Kollektiv heraus entstand wenig später auch die Open-Source-Software und Plattform SciOp. Diese ermöglicht mittels einer Integration von Datenkatalog und BitTorrent-Tracker eine dezentral verteilte und koordinierte Datenhaltung, an der jede Person mit der Bereitstellung von eigenem Speicherplatz und Bandbreite teilnehmen kann, um eine bessere Verfügbarkeit und zensurresistente Bereitstellung der geretteten Daten zu gewährleisten. Dieser Beitrag zeichnet die Entstehungsgeschichte des Projekts nach und stellt dessen Besonderheiten im Vergleich zu konventionellen Ansätzen und Softwarelösungen im Bibliotheksbereich heraus. Es kann aufgezeigt werden, dass im begrenzten Umfang bekannte bibliothekarische Praktiken adaptiert wurden. Im Gegensatz zu traditionellen Bibliotheken bestehen jedoch neben dem besonderen technologischen Fundament des Projekts auch deutliche Unterschiede hinsichtlich dem Sammelschwerpunkt, der Organisationspraxis und den Partizipationsmöglichkeiten.
nestor e.V.Vielen Dank für eure Vortragsvorschläge für den diesjährigen nestor-Praxistag! Wir haben daraus ein Programm gestaltet, das jetzt veröffentlicht ist:
Infos zur Anmeldung gibt's ebenfalls dort!
Wann: 11. Juni 2026
Wo: München
Worum geht's: Formate in Bewegung - Wie lassen sich AV-Objekte digital erhalten?