"The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content, according to a subpoena posted by the website. The FBI subpoena says it is part of a criminal investigation, though it does not provide any details about what alleged crime is being investigated. Archive.today is also popularly known by several of its mirrors, including archive.is and archive.ph.

The subpoena, which was posted on X by archive.today on October 30, was sent by the FBI to Tucows, a popular Canadian domain registrar. It demands that Tucows give the FBI the “customer or subscriber name, address of service, and billing address” and other information about the “customer behind archive.today.”"

https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

#DigitalArchiving #Archiving #Paywalls #FBI

#callforpapers

SIBMAS Symposium "Shifting Stages. Preserving Performing Arts on Moving Ground"

8-10 June 2026
Theatre Archive at the National and University Library of Iceland, Reykjavík

Deadline: 9 January 2026

👉 Further information: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/call-for-papers-shifting-stages-preserving-performing-arts-on-moving-ground-sibmas/

#sibmas #performingarts #archiving #performingartscollections #performancestudies

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115507006485634894

This is why @fabio made the Gaza Verified Archive (e.g., see https://gaza.onl/attachments) that archives everything posted by our #GazaVerified families.

And you can run a mirror to make it even more resilient and ensure that their testimonies are not lost to history: https://git.platypush.tech/blacklight/gaza-archive

It also has an API: https://gaza.onl/swagger/

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #GazaVerifiedArchive #archiving #israel #genocide #testimonies

#FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular #archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet … according to a subpoena posted by the website. The FBI #subpoena says it is part of a criminal investigation, though it does not provide any details about what alleged crime is being investigated.
#ArchiveToday #archiveis #privacy #copyright

https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

Celebrate #WDPD2025 with us today! 🥳

Explore the activities & achievements of our #Archiving & #DigiPres group (WP7) so far 👉 https://buff.ly/EKUmRdh

The focus this year is on:

✅ National Libraries legal deposit workflows for #OA monographs
✅ Archiving & preservation of PhD Theses at UK unis libraries/repositories
✅ Challenge of link rot & the proposal to change to a PDF/A standard
✅ Developing Open Archiving principles

Lots of exciting things coming out of WP7 so watch this space!

Blessings to the Buckinghamshire Archives in Aylesbury, UK, who offer up this handy chart over on BlootSky. The good advice continues in the comments.

#Archives #Archiving #IsThisAnArchive #Helmets

digitized eight old #VHS tapes, first two with `ffmpeg -vf bwdif` (deinterlacing filter, with default options).

turns out this did the wrong thing (motion was juddery, something like frame order 2 1 4 3 6 5 instead of 1 2 3 4 5 6), but a simple frame swapping program I wrote to fix it made some parts perfect but other parts even worse (swappting wrong pairs like ... 4 1 6 3 8 5 ...), so I think #ffmpeg #bwdif does some autodetection/switching during the video encoding.

can not redigitize the first tape because VCR machine chewed it.... workaround until I figure out a proper solution: drop half the frames to give a 25fps output video instead of 50fps.

second tape I redigitised, like the other six tapes, using `-vf bwdif=parity=bff` which seems to be the correct #interlacing #FieldOrder for my capture hardware and source (EasyCAP USB device with JVC #VCR , norm #PAL , 720x576i50), at least I haven't spotted juddery motion there.

#archiving #analog #digital

Si tienen un rato, les super recomiendo que escuchen el siguiente episodio del podcast Modo Historia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haH7Qgmp_aY

Habla sobre lo que se cree que es el primer juego 3D desarrollado en Argentina. El Magia 3D. Que era lost media hasta hace un tiempo y se pudo recuperar y preservar.

#archiving #retrogames #lostmedia