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New DRP post: Help Protect At-Risk Humanitarian Archives. We aim to support a range of data rescue projects. This one from the Univ of Manchester is an incredible effort to recognize the loss of many small humanitarian archives. www.datarescueproject.org/humanitarian...

Help Protect At-Risk Humanitar...

Help Protect At-Risk Humanitarian Archives

In late 2025, members of the DRP Steering Committee traveled to the University of Manchester, UK, to attend the launch of the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) Project. As we have seen in the US over the past 15 months, digital archives, records, and datasets linked to humanitarian action and global

Data Rescue Project

Sarah Gentile Mar 18

MireilleNappert Mar 18

The Software Preservation Network (SPN) will be ending their activities in about a year. Thankfully, they will be taking the time to make sure the work done will not be lost.
Over the years, SPN has done great work to advance knowledge and capabilities towards software preservation. 💜
Still, it always comes backs to sustainability.

#digipres #softwarePreservation #softwareHeritage

https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/thoughtful-sunset-for-the-software-preservation-network/

Thoughtful Sunset for the Software Preservation Network | Software Preservation Network (SPN)

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Sarah Gentile Mar 12

@GIFmodel @liaizon seconded—will this be streamed?

Sarah Gentile Mar 11

Digital Preservation Coalition Mar 6

#iPRES2026 fans, good news! The submissions deadline has been extended to 16 March 2026. Keep writing up your amazing #digitalpreservation work and get those contributions in! 🙌

#digipres #ipres #conference #CfC #community #preservation #horizon #copenhagen

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Sarah Gentile Mar 11

@anonax just called!

Sarah Gentile Mar 10

@funnymonkey sadly, the schools agreements are overriding parental consent in those cases. We found this out the hard way with my kids’ kindergarten (!) class.

Sarah Gentile Mar 2

John Mark Ockerbloom Mar 2

A number of pages and sites removed recently from .gov sites now have archives viewable at govarchive.us - just substitute "govarchive.us" for "gov" in the URL that doesn't seem to work any more, and see what you find! https://govarchive.us/ #c4l26

Webrecorder US Government Web Archive

Selected archives from the Webrecorder US Government Web Archive

Webrecorder

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Sarah Gentile Feb 24

@dsalo @anj thanks — seems odd since while the site is lightly updated, there are full presentations from the Designing Storage Architectures meeting up to 2025.

Sarah Gentile Feb 24

Anyone notice digitalpreservation.gov is down and has an internal server error? #digipres

Sarah Gentile Feb 23

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 22

Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/rent-only-copyright-culture-makes-us-all-worse

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off

In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it, even preserving it for your own use inevitably requires copying. Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media, US copyright law has pretty much lost the plot.

Electronic Frontier Foundation