Looking forward to doing a bit of a virtual lunch and learn, tuning into @TeamMidwest 's talk "Place Based Planning" at 12 PM EST.

> The impacts of climate change make preserving cultural heritage more challenging for the heritage and arts sectors... Participants in this workshop will learn how to use online tools to interpret climate data at the local and regional level to understand the risks for long-term impacts of climate change.

There is also a "climate circle" on March 21st, registration is on the bottom of the page.
https://climate-resiliency.clir.org/sessions/place-based-planning/

The last session is Big Data and the Preservation Problem https://climate-resiliency.clir.org/sessions/big-data-and-the-preservation-problem/

New blogpost about #Obsidian as a digital community archiving tool.

I describe a collaborative way to record information, in an intuitive text format (markdown) and live visualization as a network graph:

https://nullmuseum.hypotheses.org/1276

Just discovered ArchiveBox — FOSS, self-hosted internet archiving.

The way the web is going, with the US government redacting and outright erasing historic content, publishers segmenting content by region (and also sometimes redacting/censoring it), and CloudFlare shitting all over everything, I think it's time for me to start my #archiving and #DataHoarding journey.

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #DataHoarder

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

- I've setup a VNET thick jail on my FreeBSD NAS.
- The jail has its own IP address on my LAN.
- I declared a devfs ruleset to unhide /dev/tun* for the VNET jail.
- I installed Wireguard in the jail.
- I enabled Wireguard with a ProtonVPN configuration.
- I installed qbittorrent-nox and configured it to use the Wireguard interface.

I now have a home ISP-proof qBittorrent setup with which to torrent Anna's Archive.

Hopefully there is no way that my ISP can get in, otherwise I'll get legal scare letters that threaten to put me in a jail myself.

Honestly I feel like this was more straightforward to do than with LXC containers.

I print out an article or two a day about what's going on and tucking them away in a box. Also printing out Wikipedia's timeline of this presidency. The lovely thing about the Wikipedia article is the sheer amount of outside references. We'll see how many of those disappear.

What would be great is if there was a spider tool that would, when fed a Wikipedia url, would chase those reference links and copy their articles -whole - into a database, preserving the originals along with the summary.

#USPol
#Pondering
#Archiving

Archiving Gmail - help?
I want to download all of my email from the beginning of my account until 2023 and then wipe it off the Gmail servers. I am not sure how to do this, because every solution I have found so far will synchronize my storage solution to my Gmail acocunt.

With Thunderbird I can go POP to delete all new incoming messages, but that is kind of the opposite of what I am looking for.

Ideas?
#email #privacy #archiving

Syncing the last two good Wikimedia XML data dumps. It's been almost two days. It was at 96% 10 hours ago. The bar keeps raising because it hasn't accounted for all the files that are going to be transferred yet lol.

Perhaps Mastodon can suggest stuff for me about #audio #archiving.

On a technological level I know what I'm doing (codecs, cables, tape mechanisms, etc.) but I'm struggling with making decisions.

I have a load of old type 1 #cassettes that I want to archive. I have the hardware to do it in high quality but I cannot make up my mind what to archive them as.

FLAC seems pointless given the quality of the source material but I cannot decide what is a sensible compromise between storage and faff!

A fascinating afternoon sorting things for archiving or disposing. The left row is all drivers. A full set of AWE32 drivers were found.

This is so true.

https://m.filmfreedom.net/notes/a45wftjpp7

What finally helped with my thousands of photos, analog and digital, was using this format to organize both folders and files*:

Initials_yyyymmdd_number_location_location2_event_person_people

*spouse just told me this younger generation don't know what those are (How?!!).

fedifolk, what's y'all's preference for scanning film slides? what do y'all use? also, how do y'all recommend storing film slides?

Hey lovely techie people! I am trying to archive an abscure 3DS game that doesn't have much info on it from my own 3DS hardware - that's all fine, I have decompiled the ROM! Feeling good!

However, I have a bunch of .ANIM files and i am wondering if there is a way to convert them maybe to gif, or if there is a software to open them in and then convert to gif?

My searching through years of old forums are getting me nowhere!

"This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don’t save it, even if it seems like it’s everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear."

https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/

I think most SDF members are capable of doing this if they have bandwidth and room.

ArchiveTeam Warrior - Archiveteam
#Archiving #InternetArchive
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

Interested in #DigitalPreservation and #archiving? The @muckrock team is looking for volunteers for their #DataLiberation project.

"Since 2022, the Data Liberation Project — a volunteer effort led by data journalist Jeremy Singer-Vine — has used [Freedom of Information Act] laws and web scraping to make a wide range of government data sets public and usable.

Their efforts have helped newsrooms and the public keep an eye on [Transportation Security Administration] complaints, explore data on over 58,000 boating accidents and examine an expansive collection of hazardous material transportation reports."

More about the project: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/sep/18/data-liberation-project-volunteer-data-science/

Join the Slack: https://www.muckrock.com/slack/

Apparently the ghouls in DC are scrubbing the CDC website.

Data is disappearing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cdc-dei-scientific-data/681531/

https://www.cdc.gov/datainfo.html

One person on Reddit made a download of the data and is in the process of uploading it to archive.org.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1ibnjbb/altcdc_bluesky_account_warns_of_impending_data/

"One document obtained by The Atlantic indicated that the government was, as of yesterday evening, intending to target and replace, at a minimum, several “suggested keywords”—including “pregnant people, transgender, binary, non-binary, gender, assigned at birth, binary [sic], non-binary [sic], cisgender, queer, gender identity, gender minority, anything with pronouns”—in CDC content."

There's this directory of #data, and I wondered if anyone interested in #archiving could also get some of it downloaded:

https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/

Obviously it's a shitton of data, and I don't know what the overlap is between it, and what's on/being taken off of the website.

"The Video Game History Foundation announced it will be launching its digital library platform later this month with "never-before-seen game development materials", as well as "artwork, press kits, and promo materials from iconic video games". The library will also allow readers to access 1,500 out-of-print videogame magazines stretching back to the early 1980s.

The magazine library will be fully text searchable, organisable by chronology, and allow users to filter mags by region, platform, publisher, and more."

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-video-game-history-foundation-launches-its-digital-library-later-this-month-providing-access-to-over-1-500-videogame-magazines-and-never-before-seen-game-development-materials/