Justin Simpson
@justinsimpson.bsky.social
Managing Director at Artefactual Systems. Developing and supporting open source software for the care of cultural memory
Very pleased to announce our newest product release,we think it's super! www.artefactual.com/post/superpr...
SUPERPRESERVATION™
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 1, 2026Artefactual announces a new quantum computing inspired approach to digital preservation. Surrey, BC - April 1, 2026We harness the principle of quantum s...
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I gave a talk today at #icabarcelona2025 called 'Fast Learns, Slow Remembers: Systems Thinking in digital preservation using the Pace Layer and Viable System models'. Slides are here: docs.google.com/presentation...
I am speaking at an online conference next week. Oct 15 9:30 CEST. IFLA Preservation and Conservation Center, National Library of Poland: Digital libraries: Tools for(ever) Digital Preservation Open Source Tools supporting long term digital preservation polona.pl/static/polon... free and online
If you would like to read the full blog post about our views on openness and open source software, it has been posted on our website. Happy May 1st! www.artefactual.com/post/open-by... #opensource #digipres #archives #labourday #mayday
Open by Default: Towards a Manifesto for May Day
This is intended to be a statement to our customers, our user and developer communities, and our staff. By writing down our intentions in using open source software we move towards aligning our action...
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Happy May Day! May is also Maintainer Month, highlighting the work of those who care for open source projects. Being open isn’t the only way to contribute to a practice of care but we think it is the best way. Today we are going to post some of our reasons why. #open #opensource #digipres #archives
*LLM scrapers relentlessly hammering open-source websites https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.
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Artefactualities @kellystewart.bsky.social and @justinsimpson.bsky.social are in Amsterdam this week at the international symposium on the preservation of digital art. Don't be shy - come say hi if you are here! li-ma.nl/article/tran... #digipres
LI-MA - Living Media Art | Transformation Digital Art 2025
LI-MA's 2025 Symposium on preserving digital art. Explore challenges of conserving digital, performative, and processual artworks.
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New release means it's cake time! AtoM 2.9 is now available 🎉 This was a big one with a number of dependency updates to cover. Many thanks to all who contributed 🫶 Links and all the details can be found: www.artefactual.com/post/atom-2-...
AtoM 2.9.0 released this week
We are pleased to announce the release of AtoM 2.9.0 this week. This major release included large update work to bring ElasticSearch to version 6.8.3 and PHP support to 8.3, including a number of bug ...
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In my book A Matter of Facts: The Importance of Evidence in an Information Age, I highlighted the grievous misdeeds of DJT, including his abject disregard for the rule of law. Without authentic evidence, we lose the fight for truth. We haven't won the fight, and we must fight on. #evidence #archives
Sarah Mason wrote a blog post about her work with the Archivematica and Access to Memory contributor communities www.artefactual.com/post/gatheri...
Gathering the Contributor Community
"What turns that project into a community are the people who engage with one another around that code. No matter the maturity level of your project, one of the most important things you can do to ensu...
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Unexpected errors in the BagIt area: alexwlchan.net/2025/bagit-e... BagIt is a packaging format often used in digital archives, and I worked with it quite a lot in a previous job. I wrote up some of the ways a BagIt bag can be invalid, and how I think you should try to validate bags. #digipres
Unexpected errors in the BagIt area
Exploring the many ways a BagIt bag can be invalid, and how you might want to build a process for validating bags to ensure the quality of your digital archive.
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Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits. Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13% Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends) Transit Crime: 🔻36% Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44% Trip Times: 🔻10-30%
Very happy to get this in the post today. The first issue of a new annual journal called Pace Layers, from @longnow.org
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery: Dumfries Suspension Bridge
New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery: Most Slovenského národného povstania, Bratislava.
The Ewart Library in Dumfries is looking very handsome this morning.
John Pelan from @scotsarchives.bsky.social showed the new yourscottisharchives.com website this morning in Stirling at the SCA annual conference. A portal with archival descriptions from 60 Scottish organisations
Your Scottish Archives
Explore and discover archive collections across Scotland
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how do you all remember every UUID? I find it really hard. so I wrote them all down on every uuid dot com the list has fast search across all 2^122 values (so you can find your favorites) - hoping to add some social features like "trending UUIDs" soon!
Great News! Artefactual has launched a new commercial service. Read all about it www.artefactual.com/post/your-ch...
Your Checksum is in the mail
Artefactual is pleased to announce the launch of a new commercial service. Building on the success of our Bag Bags, starting April 1st 2024 we will be delivering all of our customers checksums by post...
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No better day than World Digital Preservation Day to post our first message here and to point you towards some good work being done by a colleague we met at iPres this year, Maureen Kenga. www.artefactual.com/post/wdpd-an... #wdpd2023 #digipres
Happy #WorldDigitalPreservationDay! To provide accessible tools for #DigitalPreservation, public-sector support & collaboration on #OpenSource software is the #WayToGo, according to our specialist Corinne Frappart. Read more in @DPC_chat's blog: bit.ly/45MnYni #WDPD2023
Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2023! Great start for me, watching interesting presentations by Joshua Ng from Nat Archives NZ and William Kilbride from DPC for an Arkib Negara (National Archives of Malaysia) event. #WDPD2023 I also presented, my slides are here: bit.ly/3tZezM5
NAM-WDPD2023-Justin-Artefactual
Hello, Thank you to the National Archives of Malaysia for inviting me to speak today, it is an honour to be here. An Overview of Digital Preservation Systems Justin Simpson Managing Director 2 Novembe...
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Yesterday I gave a presentation at the DLM Forum in Salamanca about open source software, archival principles, and the evolution of software at Artefactual - slides at bit.ly/471pMtM #DLM_Forum
DLM: From Archivematica to Enduro: An Evolutionary Tale
Hello, This is the first time that Artefactual has participated in the DLM Forum You are an interesting and inspiring group, and Salamanca is a beautiful place. We are very happy to be here, and I hop...
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I was interviewed for an article on The New Stack, about companies that build open source software that are not dev tools thenewstack.io/entrepreneur...
Entrepreneurship for Engineers: Non-DevTool Open Source
Let’s shine some light on the world of open source companies that don’t necessarily make tools for developers — and why those organizations still think an open source model is the right way to b...
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Vendors/sales reps need to realize that when you're talking to librarians and archivists, presenting "preservation" as something that can be achieved simply (or really, achieved at all in any kind of finished state) is the BIGGEST red flag.
I gave a presentation and demo at the ICA Congress in Abu Dhabi today, about Open Source in Archives, and showing a case study of new digital preservation work at Artefactual. Slides here: tinyurl.com/enduroa3m
