For this #webarchivingwednesday we have published a blog on the amazing work that Cambridge Digital Humanities Fellows Dr Andrea Kocsis and Susan (Chen) Qu did when using the #ArchiveofTomorrow datasets digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/sharing-health…

Congratulations everyone! Very glad to see Sally Kilby and Dr Leontien Talboom from Cambridge University Library in this year’s cohort!

Looking with the microscope at the old CDs is a new territory. Has anyone tried that before? Challenge accepted Caylin Smith | @[email protected] Dr Leontien Talboom in the name of #DigitalPreservation

.Dr Leontien Talboom and I are very fortunate to work with talented and skilled colleagues who've looked at optical media with their equipment. If a disc isn't visibly damaged but can't be read, multi spectral and microscopic technologies might provide answers. #DigitalPreservation

At last, an opportunity to repost this meme. 'AI also has a lot to learn from culture'. Cultural AI Lab introduced by Victor de Boer #EuropeanaTech2023 cultural-ai.nl

Chris Knowles, digital archivist at Churchill Archives Centre and I have written about our experience with 5.25-inch floppy disks for Word Digital Preservation Day! digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/diskovering-no… Churchill Archives Centre Cambridge University Library #digipres #WDPD2023

It’s officially out in the wild! Absolutely delighted to collaborate with Francesca Mackenzie on Digital Preservation for 5 Year Olds #DP5YO for #WDPD2023 Come meet Finny the goldfish and see how well you can explain digital preservation without using jargon. dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/wdpd…

The theme for this year’s World Digital Preservation Day is ‘Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort’, and so we want to highlight some of the ways we've been sharing resources and expertise #WDPD2023 chu.cam.ac.uk/news/archives-…

The report "Archive of Tomorrow: Capturing public health discourse in the UK Web Archive" is now online! This project was delivered by staff from National Library of Scotland Bodleian Libraries Cambridge University Library, EdUniLibrary&Museums UK Web Archive, and funded by Wellcome. doi.org/10.23636/6q6k-…

It was a privilege to chair the 2nd meeting of the The UK Institute for Technical Skills & Strategy Technician Council today. It's so enjoyable to work with such a passionate, engaged, and diverse group of technicians. Thanks to Isabel Goncalves Catuzzo and UCL for hosting us. Kelly Vere MBE @TechsatUCL University of Liverpool Technical Network

Come and work with us! We are hiring 12(!) new positions. All full time, all permanent. From across many areas in #DigitalHumanities Details here: jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linki… Please share far and wide! #JobAlert #AcademicTwitter #academicjobs #London

Chris Knowles and I have done more work around 5.25-inch floppy disks! Thanks Richard Lehane Tyler Thorsted @SnarkivistWien Computing History for all your help! digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/raw-flux-strea… #digipres #digitalpreservation Cambridge University Library Churchill Archives Centre

Incredible day at Bibliothèque BnF speaking to staff in the Born-Digital Donations & Acquisitions, Legal Deposit, Multimedia & #Audiovisual Services, #WebArchiving, and #DigitalPreservation teams! Lots of thoughts and ideas for me and Dr Leontien Talboom to bring back to colleagues at Cambridge University Library!

Over the last few weeks I have been working on getting a 3-inch Amstrad drive to work and have written a blog about it! digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/3-inch-treasur… #digipres #amstrad

Read about how the CUL #DigitalPreservation team is working with the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory based at Cambridge University Library to manage and preserve #metadata relating to #digitised collection items. By Alea Cook, Digital Preservation Analyst digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/investigating-…

Chris Knowles from Churchill Archives Centre and I have been doing more work on the Amstrad Disks! We have tried to migrate the LocoScript files as DOC files to make it easier to appraise and access them. digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/hex-marks-the-… #digipres #digitalpreservation #amstrad #RetroComputing

Last week, Tyler Thorsted, @SnarkivistWien, Chris Knowles and I did a workshop on imaging obscure floppy disk formats at #ipres2024 As part of this workshop we produced a guide, which is available on Zenodo! zenodo.org/records/138283…

I can FINALLY announce the news! I have been awarded a British Academy small grant!! thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/over-17-m… My research will focus on safeguarding knowledge about floppy disks! I am really excited to get started!

Some very exciting news! The ADS team is in Daresbury today for the public launch of Arts and Humanities Research Council RICHeS

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