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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 dpconline.org/news/mental-heal Straight to the report? Follow this link 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.

restoredcdc.org/
aboutus.restoredcdc.org/

404media coverage
archive.is/MNRdT

restoredcdc.orgCenters for Disease Control and PreventionBy CDC

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: updates.timsherratt.org/2024/0

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

updates.timsherratt.org · Preserving the history of online collections (my love letter to future historians)It’s pretty obvious that access to digitised resources, like Trove’s newspapers, has changed the practice of history in Australia. But how? I’m certain that the historiographical implications of the growth and development of online collections will become a topic of increasing interest to historians, and that exploration of this topic will lead to important insights into the relationship between what we keep, what we value, and what we know. But for this to happen we need to have data documenting changes in online collections.

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.

#ac3#Archives#audio