🧵 Curious how researchers, journalists, and artists dig into the web’s past? 🌐

WAYS OF WORKING WITH THE WAYBACK MACHINE shows how the #WaybackMachine opens up discovery & creativity from tracking platform changes to investigating misinformation & remixing archived sites.

A recent gathering at Internet Archive Europe shared methods, tools, and collaborations shaping digital research and media art.

Learn more ⤵️
https://www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/ways-of-working-with-the-wayback-machine/

#WebArchives #DigitalResearch @internetarchiveeurope

🔬 From atomic structure to actionable insight🔬

atomRDF enables researchers to create, annotate, and query structures with ease — boosting data quality, traceability, and seamless workflow integration.

#NFDIMatwerk
Link for the Tool: https://atomrdf.pyscal.org/en/latest/

#NFDI #FAIRdata #MaterialsScience #DigitalResearch #DigitalWorkflows #OpenScience

🚀 Accelerating materials modelling with automation🚀

Pyiron streamlines the entire development process of Machine Learning potentials — delivering faster results, reproducible workflows, and FAIR data every step of the way.

Link for the Tool: https://github.com/pyiron#pyiron---complex-workflows-made-easy

#NFDIMatwerk

#NFDI #FAIRdata #MaterialsScience #DigitalResearch #DigitalWorkflows #OpenScience

🗂️ My computer stores everything I work with: drafts, notes, datasets, scripts, models, simulations results, old archives — and, of course, a ridiculous amount of literature. 😅

Recently I discovered something that felt like unlocking a hidden level: local full-text search.

I’d used basic search tools before, but then I tried Recoll — an open-source search engine for UNIX-like systems — and it completely changed how I navigate my research files.

It honestly feels like I found a new kind of “computer game,” and I’ll probably keep playing with it for months. 🤣

#ResearchWorkflow #IndependentResearch #DataManagement #OpenSource #KnowledgeOrganization #UNIX #DigitalResearch #ResearchTools #Recoll #KnowledgeManagement #Linux #FOSS

📚 Fifteen years of my personal BibTeX database!

Fifteen years ago, I started keeping my own BibTeX database — just a plain text file edited manually, line by line.
Later I switched to JabRef, and everything became much smoother!

Over the years, the database has grown to almost 2,000 entries — and it’s no longer just a list of references, but a snapshot of the knowledge I’ve interacted with.
Because I always fill in the Abstract field, full-text search now lets me literally “remember everything.”

Among all my long-term “personal productivity” projects, this one has turned out to be the most valuable.

#KnowledgeManagement #OpenScience #BibTeX #JabRef #PersonalKnowledgeBase #LaTeX #ResearchTools #DigitalResearch #DataScience #AcademicLife #Linux

💾 From Duplicity to Borg — a backup journey

After more than a decade with Duplicity, I finally switched to BorgBackup — and wow, that difference.

📂 Source data: 719 GB in my /home
📦 Packed size: 419 GB
📉 Actual storage: 390 GB after compression

That’s more than a 45% reduction, and the upload to remote storage is much faster now.
For someone who handles geospatial and scientific data daily, this is huge.

It’s not just about saving space — it’s about making the workflow lighter, faster, and more sustainable.

🧠 Curious — what backup tools do you trust most?

#Linux #BorgBackup #OpenSource #DataManagement #Backups #DigitalResearch #IndependentResearch #DataScience #CyberSecurity #ResearchWorkflow #Geodata #Automation