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oh this one is fun, refused to spin for a minute #RecoveryWhiskers #digipres
and done. #RecoveryWhiskers #digipres
cleaning my floppy drive heads after this disk.
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 worldās most renowned art galleries. Their exhibitions as varied as Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, and Marina AbramoviÄ. They donāt 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.
Hereās the kicker ā its salary band is GBP 35,000 to GBP 38,000. So it must be an entry level position, especially in London, right?
Well, letās see what they want you to do for that price tagā¦
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#Archives #Art #artGalleries #artHistory #ArtsCouncilEngland #career #digipres #DigitalArchiving #DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation #digitalPreservationIsPeople #dpip #earlyCareer #employment #GLAM #jobPostings #london #outreach #salaries #Serpentine #SerpentineGalleries #SerpentineGallery
#Digital āļø #Vagabond š¦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!
