The comment about mandatory file tagging shows the risks of turning every user into a librarian. I suppose someone already mapped filesystems by their #PREMIS level 1 conformance but I've not searched yet.
Denmark is getting an independent institute for video games - the first in Europe. Interestingly it's being named after Nimbi, one of the two contenders for being the first Danish computer game. One can only hope this means a focus on archival and game culture and history.
More news on the subject here (in Danish): https://kum.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/europas-foerste-spilinstitut-er-i-luften #dkgame#digipres
I love how @Bellingcat uses #Jupyter notebooks to help their non-tech-savvy researchers in using command-line tools. I guess we could do similar things with #digipres tools...
Revisiting the eDonkey p2p network after +15 years (I have just installed aMule) – and I am amazed. In just a few searches, I found rare books and documentaries that I couldn't locate elsewhere.
Are sharing communities the ultimate digital libraries?
@raffaele It all relies on people hoarding files in the default #eMule directory and never sorting them. Leveraging disorder for preservation. #digipres
Greetings #digipres hivemind. Hypothetically, if you were interviewing someone for a digital preservation role and wanted them to prepare a short essay or presentation (which they can research before the interview), what questions would you ask? Would you even take this approach?
Back in 1991, the sysops of the "STaTus BBS" in New Zealand created a #GUI for their board.
The system was powered by "Instant Graphics and Sound," a plain-text vector graphics scripting language for the Atari ST similar to RIPscrip, but predating it by several years.
Here's a video showing an IGS demo they made to give an idea of their impressive "GEM Desktop" #BBS interface:
New blog post! I set out to dump an arcade game and correct MAME's database, only to end up discovering that this game revision didn't actually exist in the first place - or rather, once properly dumped, it was actually a duplicate of another one.
A real #digipres lesson here, and a reminder that even widely-used and well-maintained catalogues are fallible. It can be just as important to deduplicate entries and remove phantom ones as to discover new ones.
Harvard Library Innovation Lab: WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI
"...an open-source, highly-customizable Retrieval Augmented Generation tool the web archiving community can use to explore the intersection between web #archiving and #AI. WARC-GPT allows for creating custom chatbots that use a set of #web#archive files as their knowledge base, letting users explore collections through conversation." 👏