FREELANCERS: I'm commissioning history articles about the internet for the BBC. Looking for pitches about chapters & corners of the web that people will remember, but haven't thought about in the while. Nostalgia, surprising stories, foundational communities, get in touch!

The #DPC has completed a study of the #digitalpreservation labour market, analyzing data gathered from 167 online job vacancy postings published between Jan 2021 and Dec 2022. The final report and dataset are now available on 👉🏽dpconline.org/news/dpc-labou…

Liverpool's Digital Heritage Lab publicly launches today, pulling together items from across University of Liverpool's #archives, #specialcollections, #museums #gallery. With cross-collection search functionality, exhibitions & new features, this is an important element of our #digitalshift

this new retrofuturistic cinema just opened in paris and it looks absolutely *incredible*

"Digital preservation is often seen as a technical and abstract field, but recently we have seen the emergence of engaging, interactive ways to learn about it—primarily through games." New post by Alea Cook about #DigitalPreservation games at iPRES 2024 digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/exploring-digi…

Leontien Talboom (Dr Leontien Talboom), on the CUL #DigitalPreservation team and Cambridge Digital Humanities Methods Fellow, will give a workshop on disk imaging to staff, students, and researchers on Nov 11. Great to see this work impacting the wider Cambridge University community! cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39062/

NEWS // C20 is seeking a new home for a space-age classroom, inspired by the iconic Stirling Prize winning Lord's Media Centre. Designed by Future Systems in 2004, the Ingenium Pod at Grey Court School in Richmond-upon-Thames was once heralded as the most futuristic classroom in

Some thoughts on the wonderful No Time to Wait and #NTTW8 in Karlsruhe 📽️📼📀💻 digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/time-is-of-the… #DigitalPreservation

Have people’s tape baking recipes increased in temperature and duration? If so… 📼 1. What do you use to bake tapes (name & brand of oven or humidifier)? 📼 2. Baking temp increased (include old & new temps)? 📼 3. Baking time increased (include old & new bake times)? 📼 1/2

Our spruced-up website is live! 💃🕺 ccc.cam.ac.uk 🚨 Check it out and join us for our first Collections Lab on: What does it mean to do collections-based participatory research? ⏰ 14 November, 4.30-6pm, West Hub, West Room 2 #collections#connections#communities

This #WebArchiveWednesday, register for our next webinar aimed at researchers interested in using #WebArchives Collections as Data on 6 Nov, 2024 for talks from Jon Tønnessen of Nettarkivet and Anders Klindt Myrvoll of the Danish Web Archive. 👉netpreserve.org/event/iipc-rss… #webarchiving

La #collectelarge2024 du dépôt légal du web de Bibliothèque BnF vient de partir. Le robot de collecte Heritrix va collecter pendant 6 semaines environ 5 909 925 sites web en vue de créer un échantillon représentatif du web français de l’année 2024 pour le patrimoine et la recherche.

We're 'saving' the floppy disk on World Digital Preservation Day 💾 Cambridge University Library is a crucial step closer to safeguarding floppy disk knowledge following the award of The British Academy funding. Discover more: loom.ly/9MUpM98 #WDPD2024

The British Academy As disks deteriorate in Library and Museum collections, the project 'Future Nostalgia' led by Dr Leontien Talboom, aims to investigate best practice in their preservation to ensure disks and their data are not lost for generations to come... loom.ly/9MUpM98 DPC Chatter

🌍Dive into the flurry of #digipres blogs for World Digital Preservation Day🌍 #DPCblogs The Missing Link: Connecting Readers with Early Digital Text in Libraries ift.tt/NzsdoyA #WDPD2024 #digitalpreservation #awareness #blog-a-thon

UPDATE: Sad news via Andy Bramwell, that the lovely 1923 Clough Williams-Ellis cottage in Oxford has now been demolished. It was commissioned by the Canadian author and early 20th century feminist Lily Dougall, and her same-sex partner Sophia Earp. C20 Society attempted to save

Specialists working in digital preservation at Cambridge University Library ensure ongoing access to data created in a wide variety of formats and content types, both old and contemporary. Read more here! loom.ly/ZxY9vL8

UPDATE: Councillors have rejected plans to demolish the former Central Cinema (1930) in Cambridge, following objections from C20 Society. Solution? Retain the handsome Art Deco façade and incorporate it into a new office and retail development behind. See here for other

View from West Hub, Cambridge yesterday evening. #Library #Cambridge

Unsure what Business as Usual means for #DigitalPreservation? Join me and Jenny Mitcham online on January 21st if you're interested in this topic and how it might apply to your own work! Register here: dpconline.org/events/eventde…