Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]

University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]

RadioTimes: Inside the incredible recovery of two missing Doctor Who episodes – archive expert “optimistic” more will be found. “This week, Film is Fabulous announced that it had recovered two previously missing episodes of the Doctor Who story The Daleks’ Master Plan – The Nightmare Begins and Devil’s Planet – which will both be made available on BBC iPlayer in April. The two episodes […]

#Sondage / #Survey
Set up by colleagues in the USA gathering information on viability/endangerment of... not languages, but ***minority-language documentation & language work***. Recent events of withdrawal of government support serve as an opportunity to think more broadly about long-term resilience.

It comes in 2 versions:
* The short version: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/bXfPtM2-9XI9wwi3ZuYd8tOrAmPa9GKKclMfLiZKiJk/

* The longer version: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/7IpVLIHucfDK1d2yo84cL29mx09o85ICq9IpZFzZ4fc/

Please answer & help circulate
#EndangeredLanguages #EndangeredArchives

State of Michigan: Archives of Michigan receives $274K grant to expand on Save Michigan History program. “The program addresses the unique challenges of local organizations caring for public records in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, Upper Peninsula, and surrounding islands, many of which are in remote areas prone to extreme weather.”

Popular Science: The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks. “In collaboration with retro computing enthusiasts who have built specialized floppy-imaging tools, [Leontien Talboom]’s recovered data from hundreds of historically significant disks in the library’s collection—including previously inaccessible lectures by physicist Stephen Hawking.”

Engadget: The Stop Killing Games campaign will set up NGOs in the EU and US. “In a YouTube video, the campaign’s creator, Ross Scott, explained that organizers are planning to establish two non-governmental organizations, one for the European Union and another for the US. According to Scott, these NGOs would allow for ‘long-term counter lobbying’ when publishers end support for certain video […]

Found while I was looking for something else: Delisted Games Database – Updated Official Tracker of Removed Games. “Every year, hundreds of video games vanish from digital storefronts erased by licensing disputes, server shutdowns, or platform removals. For players, that means lost purchases and broken collections. For preservationists, it’s a cultural crisis: entire chapters of gaming […]

Mezha: Ukraine Approves New Museum Item Evacuation Procedure During Martial Law. “The government approved the procedure for evacuating museum items during martial law, proposed by the Ministry of Culture. This was announced on February 18 by Minister Tetiana Berezhna. According to the Ministry of Culture, the document was developed based on an analysis of evacuation practices over the past […]

Odessa Journal: The board of directors of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Foundation has appointed its leadership and defined areas of work. “The Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Foundation (UCHF) held its first meeting, during which it appointed its leadership and outlined future areas of work, the Ministry of Culture reported.”