On World Digital Preservation Day 2025 Eleanor Young gave the virtual talk "The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System". The video recording and transcript are available here:

https://psu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/The+Medley+Interlisp+Project%3A+Reviving+a+Historical+Software+System/1_8955ehus/380123532

#WDPD2025 #interlisp #lisp #retrocomputing

The sun has set on Hawaii and Rarotonga and so it’s time to bring the curtain down on World Digital Preservation Day 2025 #WDPD2025

📣 Read our last blog of the Day here by #DPC's Executive Director William Kilbride 📣https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/closing-blog-william-kilbride-wdpd2025

Thank you, amazing #digitalpreservation community, for making this another AMAZING day filled with songs, events, videos, blogs and vlogs - and answering a powerful question: #WhyPreserve?

This week I have been digging around in the #InternetArchive looking for digitised Arabic periodicals. With a bit of #Rstats and far too many hours of #XSLT and #TEI/XML spent on identifying titles based on the very patchy metadata provided by uploaders, there are quite some exciting finds:

The API returned 4500+ items for the keywords "جريدة", "مجلة", and "صحيفة", of which I could identify 781 as pertaining to 100 individual Arabic periodicals published before 1930. Links to all of these have been uploaded to #Wikidata, which will increase their visibility to scholars and the interested public.

There are, of course, thousands of items for which I couldn’t programmatically establish a title with sufficient certainty, let alone try and link them to existing records without actually looking at the digital facsimile and reading the information provided on front-pages and mastheads.

Check out https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/wnywBGxzyyiukWWYiIQqi0smeUCu6AggKG4mOME68i3 to see the results.

#ArabPeriodicalStudies #PeriodicalStudies #DigitalHumanities #wdpd2025

With a few hours to spare, here are my reflections on 2025's World Digital Preservation Day #WDPD2025 published on my blog (and yes, first post since 2019!)

https://www.spellboundblog.com/2025/11/06/why-preserve-to-connect/

#DigitalPreservationCoalition #digipres #digitalpreservation #community #ipres2025

I did it! Here's my post on @SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue and distributed #DigiPres for #WDPD2025! https://erambler.co.uk/blog/wdpd2025-data-rescue/

Shoutout to @lavaeolus & @jonny, plus @datarescueproject.org

🎉Rolling on with another #WDPD2025 blog🎉Gratz College discusses #WhyPreserve through access, preservation, and ownership, and launches the Grayzel Digital Platform TODAY! Read their blog here👉🏽 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-alison-joseph-wdpd2025

#LetsCelebrate #digitalpreservation #WhyPreserve #DigitalPreservationCoalition #digipres #community #JoinUs