Salon Series 54: Palestine in Print: Publishing and Archiving as Tools for Resistance
Ren Allathkani, MJ Fair, Nicole Kaack, and Kate Laster
Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 6:00pm–7:30pm PT

Jewish and Palestinian artists and archivists examine the critical role of print media in protecting and archiving endangered voices, histories, and traditions.⁠

Register to attend online or in person: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-series-54-palestine-in-print-publishing-and-archiving-as-tools-for-resistance/?utm_source=Mastodon

(Images: Kate Laster)

Question re #SafeguardingResearch
We encounter 'web applications' that our current method of archiving don't preserve.

Things like [we need a better example, this one is already gone (but the data preserved) https://social.coop/@edsu/114206452552797815]

We are mostly using https://github.com/openzim/zimit to create WARC files and combining them into a single ZIM.
(This uses the browsertrix crawler)

Any ideas on how to archive not just the content, but also the functionality of such applications?
#DigiPres #Web #Archiving

Installed and started the ArchiveTeam Warrior. Very smooth experience.

It downloads stuff and puts it into the Internet Archive.

I took the "ArchiveTeam’s Choice" project and it chose public telegram channels. It's not taking a lot of bandwidth or memory or space or computing, as far as I can tell. It might take too much of my time and focus if I continue staring at the dashboard to try and figure out what all that stuff is.

http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

@internetarchive

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

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

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.

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!

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/

I’ve been thinking lately (always a mistake) about all the cultural works to which we don't have access. Everything removed from streaming; everything locked behind DRM so that most libraries and archives won't have copies which can redundantly survive disruption. Sometimes I get real sad about the future readers and historians and others who just won't be able to find copies of the incredible things made during the current digital dark age.

As ever, I try to let this radicalize me rather than lead me into despair. I know that there are lots of horrors worth raging against, but this is one I feel well-positioned to work against. It's low-stakes enough that I won't feel self-loathing if I burn out or need to take a break. It's no secret that I like to read and organize books so this is a topic close to my heart and one which can bring me joy and allow me to share it with those around me too. There is a fair bit of tech nerd stuff to it, enough that I have an opportunity to learn & practice new things, but not so much that I’m totally out of my depth. And there are plenty of communities out there to help and share strategies.

But the big thing I see missing from my understanding and many of the conversations about shadow libraries and unauthorized archivism is the social and professional practice of librarianship rather than mechanical practice of data storage. I don't have space to go to library school, but I could definitely stand to read (and archive) introductory books on the topic, or take an online class. Friends who know: what are some of the better places to get started with an introduction to library & information science and archive science?

#libraries #librarian #archivist #archives #archivism #archivist #libraryScience #informationScience #archiveScience #culture #repositories #dataHoard #archiving #piracy #unauthorizedArchives #guerillaArchives #shadowLibraries #digiPres #digitalPreservation

"[Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C.] is part of the team that coordinates the more than 5,000 Citizen Archivists helping the Archive read and transcribe some of the more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog. And they're looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/12/national-archives-needs-citizen-archivists-cursive/77493951007/

Love this! A 22-page DIY web archiving zine that "shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!)".

https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving

#internet #TheWeb #archiving #WebArchiving

Made by @quinnanya, @Literature_Geek, and bunch of other awesome folks, found via @lavaeolus https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113873744698219704