"The Guildhall was burnt out. But, standing in its glory, towering over the wreck of the city was St Paul’s. And do you know, I’m sure that if St Paul’s had ever suffered really great damage, I think the whole heart would have gone out of Londoners. But there it was… hope."

Have you dusted off your old video games now we’re spending a bit more time at home? You’re not alone, we like games too! Find out more about some of the games we have in our collection and why we think it's important to preserve them here bit.ly/2RKDiNY

Life has changed in ways almost unimaginable since we created our #DiseaseX exhibition back in 2018. Now we are sharing the stories, objects and words from that exhibition online, to show what the past can tell us about epidemics & their impact on London: bit.ly/2TrqTPR

Is there a way of editing #warc files so that you can remove personal data or images? I'm very new to this area!

Absolutely loving this thread!

We are urging the owners to NOT remove the protest, it is an important and absolutely legitimate response to this statue of a slave trader.

There have been moments I stood next to this statue during my lunch breaks and cried for my ancestors. Their stories are still untold.

We are pleased to announce that Oral History Society training courses are now being run online. Booking now open for Introduction to Oral History, Developing your Oral History Skills, and Transcript to Script. ohs.org.uk/training/an-in…

I have a matroska/ffv1 file (retrodigitized amateurfilm) with wrong encoded fps 24, and needed to correct fps to 18 without changing count of frames or reencoding (but duration) Any hints? #ffmpeg #matroska (fps filter needs reenc, -y does not change) #preservation

Fantastic story in this video!

Are you, or someone you know, living with dementia? Our friends MuseumofLondon have put together some great Creative and Connected Activity Packs to help make the lockdown a little more fun. These can be accessed for free here: bit.ly/2YSPPmN #LiveWellWithDementia

In 1928 Mail Online recorded London's noisy streets to show its effects on mental health. In 2020 String and Tins recorded the silence of lockdown for #CollectingCOVID. Both are now available to listen to in entirety for the very first time here: bit.ly/LondonSoundsca…

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Thrilled to see you’re enjoying the fully driverless experience with the #WaymoDriver, @jjricks_!

Come work with us University of Glasgow Library in an exciting new role building our digital archiving and preservation capacity👇Closes 21st Feb

Can anyone recommend a migration path for F4V files with H.264 and AAC codecs? I'm assuming MP4 but wondered if there was something better for long term storage. Also is it possible for metadata to have a NTSC flag on a PAL video?

Sounds familiar Sound Archive

Come and work with me! imperialwarmuseums.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/…

Preservation Technicians needed: imperialwarmuseums.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…

I’m trying to access a MOV file with a “moov atom not found” error. The big problem is that the video codec is DVC and this means that the usual tools for fixing this don’t work. MediaTrace can’t identify much in the way of atoms in the file. Can anyone suggest a way forward?