Time to dust off the SyQuest cartridges.

#vintage #computers #technology #storsge #preservation

https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives

> What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks. Knowledge about the medium is as valuable as the content on the disk
https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives?share_id=9513230

#media #preservation #libraries #archives #tech

I'm the kind of person to buy a book I like twice: once as the digital DRM'd ebook (won't stay that way for long...), and again as a physical printed copy.

So you can imagine my frustration that there continue to be physical only publications of books these days....

#digipres #preservation

'Cemetery citizens' are restoring marginalized burial grounds in Connecticut

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/25/nx-s1-5781186-e1/cemetery-citizens-are-restoring-marginalized-burial-grounds-in-connecticut

#History #Community #Preservation

Doing a bit of spring cleaning in the "Wing Commander" retro folder. So many different versions and formats, for MS-DOS alone!

Digitoxin shares his collection:
https://archive.org/details/20230313

Game Preservation is important!  

#WingCommander #RetroCollection #Preservation #Diskette #FloppyDisk #Collection #Retro #RetroGaming #90s #SpaceSim #DOS #MSDOS #DOSGaming #StopKillingGames

🏞️ Garonne : un documentaire engagé pour sa préservation

🌿 J’ai eu la chance de soutenir Hélène Michel-Caillet dans le projet « Garonne vue par Garonne », facilitant le lien avec Bordeaux Métropole et participant au financement participatif, mon nom figurant au générique.

💧 Découvrez la beauté et la puissance de cet écosystème unique dans mon article :
https://maximeghesquiere.fr/2026/05/25/%f0%9f%8f%9e%ef%b8%8f-garonne-un-documentaire-engage-pour-sa-preservation/

#Garonne #DocumentaireGaronne #Préservation #Biodiversité #Écosystème #Bordeaux #Rivière #Nature #Engagement

A rare network perspective on lack of access to data:

"Modeling the impact of research data unavailability on science."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157726000465

"We analyzed how the loss of access to research resources propagates through interconnected bodies of scientific work. Our results show that information loss is not merely a local reproducibility issue but a structural phenomenon with system-wide implications…The unavailability of research data imposes a measurable efficiency loss on the scientific system…Preserving or restoring access to datasets associated with structurally central publications may prevent cascading losses that far exceed the local cost of data recovery. This insight provides a quantitative rationale for prioritizing preservation efforts based on network position and propagation risk."

#Data #OpenData #Preservation #ScholComm

How the 'cemetery citizens' are reclaiming and restoring marginalized burial grounds

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/23/nx-s1-5781186/how-the-cemetery-citizens-are-reclaiming-and-restoring-marginalized-burial-grounds

#History #Community #Preservation

Digital elbow grease saves largest actual play database

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rascal.news/digital-elbow-grease-saves-largest-actual-play-database/

1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation

https://www.1940airterminal.org/news/liquidation-of-simulators

#HackerNews #1940AirTerminal #Museum #Liquidation #AviationHistory #HoustonMuseums #Preservation #Efforts