JHOVE 1.34 RC is here!
Key updates: 
Fixed JPEG2000 parsing
PDF-2 Headers supported
Improved PDF validation
Added string literal validation
Read more in Carl Wilson's blog: https://openpreservation.org/blogs/a-closer-look-at-the-jhove-v1-34-release-candidate/?q=1
Download now: https://openpreservation.org/news/jhove-1-34-release-candidate-out-now/?q=3
Well he's written a blog! @carl our Technical Lead, takes you through the new features in the JHOVE v1.34 Release Candidate! Read more here: https://openpreservation.org/blogs/a-closer-look-at-the-jhove-v1-34-release-candidate/?q=1
Stay tuned for more details coming tomorrow!! 
#JHOVE #digipres
Now Released: Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Digital Preservation Community 
This survey explores workplace wellbeing among digital preservation practitioners, highlighting:
• Effects of solitary work environments
• Impact of high workload demands
• Challenges of advocacy work
More info on https://www.dpconline.org/news/mental-health-and-wellbeing-report-launch Straight to the report? Follow this link https://doi.org/10.7207/mhw2025
Archivists at "Restored CDC" rebuilt the cdc.gov website as it existed before Jan 20th, hosted in Europe. Internet archives had snapshots of individual pages and datasets. This project fixes broken links between pages and hosts them all on a more responsive, navigable, websearchable server.
https://restoredcdc.org/
https://aboutus.restoredcdc.org/
404media coverage
https://archive.is/MNRdT
I've been running the #Kiwix seeder scripts on a small seedbox (~4 TB) for a month now. It's been a charm.
https://github.com/kiwix/seeder/blob/main/README.md
Can't wait to get more leechers!
fileformat Friday! Looking into Fresh Luts. #digipres #avpres https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2025/02/28/luts/
Holy shit, EA just open-sourced some more Command & Conquer games including Generals and Renegade.
https://github.com/electronicarts
Hey #PDF addicts!
I came across an encrypted PDF (it's avaliable for download at https://www.deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone2/lu/en/docs/services/financial-advisory/2023/art-finance-report-2023.pdf) for which veraPDF reports the following actions as prohibited:
- changes
- modifyAnnotations
- fillingSigning
- documentAssembly
- documentAssembly
- extractContent
How bad is this for long-term preservation according to you?
I've seen systems that use magnetic tape, but do any #digipres folks use "archival" gold CDs for long-term storage? If you've considered them but said no, what made you turn away?
The latest version of #PRONOM, v120 has been released! Identification for 30 new PUIDs, 32 new signatures and 32 updates. #digipres #fileformats #digitalpreservation https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/release-notes.xml
@egonw Ah that's smart, retroactively issuing DOIs for URLs which got cited in order to use #CrossRef citation infra.
I'd be curious to see how many outlinks of paywalled publications the #InternetArchive has managed to archive. Can one extract links from the full text with #ISTEX (https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@InistCNRS/113940816034538571)? Maybe @chipotte knows.
This afternoon the failure notices have been rolling in for a series of GitHub actions that I've set up to automatically capture data about Trove. As well as powering things like the Newspaper Data Dashboard, these harvests were part of my attempt to capture the development of online GLAM collections so that future researchers would be able to examine their impact. I talk about that here: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/09/20/preserving-the-history.html
But because the NLA has cancelled my API keys, these harvests will not run, and the sequence of harvests will be broken, perhaps forever. #GLAM #digiPres
@brembs @jekely @neuralreckoning @thetransmitter
Hi! Digital archivist here! 
Encryption is interesting for sure, but the issue may become maintaining access to the file and its content for as long as needed. Can be 6 months, can be forever!
Your research data management #RDM peeps or your neighbourhood’s digital archivist #digipres can help determining the best option for your given context.
Our latest blog, by Lotte Wijsman, dives into another round of the Bits & Bots Study Group! 
Launched in 2024, it’s a supportive, collaborative space to grow in #digipres. A new cohort starts in 2025—join us! 
https://openpreservation.org/blogs/study-group-bits-and-bots-here-we-go-again/?q=1 #TechTalk #BitsAndBots #StudyGroup
BGE 86 - Archeologia Digitale: La Preservazione dei Dati e del Software del Passato. lunedi 17 febbraio, 21:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuCIEHFDKiA
Hey #digipres folks!
How do you appreciate the term "complex objects"? I was very reluctant to using it, then I realized it was a pretty well-established term.
I still see it as a way of avoiding a more precise categorization, like "multimedia" or "electronic resources" that smell like the 90's...
We're deep into work on the Glossary for the 3rd Edition of the #digipres Handbook. Interested to hear what people think are contentious terms in the community, e.g.:
- Where there is more than one term used for the same thing
- Where there are terms that are near synonyms but there are subtle differences in use/meaning
- Terms you feel are often misused
- Terms that have fallen out of use or new terms you'd like to see more established
Or really anything else that occurs!
The sensitivity index: Corrupting Y2K
by @beet_keeper
In December I asked “What will you bitflip today?” Not long after, Johan’s (@bitsgalore) Digtial Dark Age Crew released its long lost hidden single Y2K — well, I couldn’t resist corrupting it.
Fixity is an interesting property enabled by digital technologies. Checksums allow us to demonstrate mathematically that a file has not been changed. An often cited definition of fixity is:
Fixity, in the preservation sense, means the assurance that a digital file has remained unchanged, i.e. fixed — Bailey (2014)
It’s very much linked to the concept of integrity. A UNESCO definition of which:
The state of being whole, uncorrupted and free of unauthorized and undocumented changes.
Integrity is massively important at this time in history. It gives us the guarantees we need that digital objects we work with aren’t harboring their own sinister secrets in the form of malware and other potentially damaging payloads.
These values are contingent on bit-level preservation, the field of digital preservation largely assumes this; that we will be able to look after our content without losing information. As feasible as this may be these days, what happens if we lose some information? Where does authenticity come into play?
Through corrupting Y2K, I took time to reflect on integrity versus authenticity, as well as create some interesting glitched outputs. I also uncovered what may be the first audio that reveals what the Millennium Bug itself may have sounded like! Keen to hear it? Read on to find out more.
