EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...

EThOS records restored

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

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Gotta nip this in the bud: These games are not unaccounted for. The ICS's collections were owned by the Computerspielemuseum and the USK ratings board. They still own them. This museum project is on the cusp of shutting down, but the games themselves are not going to a dumpster

Games That Weren't@gamesthatwerent.com · 4mo ago

Germany's largest game archive closes, leaving 60,000 game files unaccounted for www.notebookcheck.net/Germany-s-la...

Read the feasibility study for the European Books Data Commons and discover the next steps! Explore how European libraries can make the full text of millions of digitised books available for research, innovation and contribute to a European AI infrastructure built on public values: bit.ly/4gs09tY

Feasibility study paves the way for a European Books Data Commons

The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and the Europeana Foundation have just published a feasibility study for the European Books Data Commons (EBDC).

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Help, #DigiPres folks: do you have a "deposit station" for digital content on external devices (HDD, USB, DVD, CD etc.)? If yes: 1. Desktop / Laptop? 2. Unix / Windows? 3. Offline / separate network? If offline, how do you update? 4. One or more antivirus programs? 5. Other recommendations? Thanks!

A new paper, "Securing the Future of Books: A Collaborative Guide to Preservation" outlines the challenges in preserving eBooks, such as infrastructure limitations, technological barriers and resource constraints, and explores potential solutions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Securing the Future of Books: A Collaborative Guide to Preservation

This paper examines critical challenges in preservation, such as infrastructure limitations, technological barriers and resource constraints, and explores potential solutions through collaborative in...

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I’ve recently tried @pdfcpu.bsky.social for validating my pile of 175K+ PDFs. It deemed 1762 files invalid, I’m trying to make sense of the results, which issues are the most critical? Is there a key/guide I can reference? github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcp... #digipres #digitalpreservation

Validating 175K+ PDFs, 1762 files failed the relaxed mode, which errors are critical? · pdfcpu pdfcpu · Discussion #1236

Hi- I'm new to PDF validation. I have been running a variety of tools on a pile of 175K+ PDFs (from our self-deposit documents repository). There were 1762 files that failed the relaxed validation....

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PARADISEC digitises Pacific music recordings dating back decades in more than 1300 languages. www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... via @ABCaustralia

Canberra singing group brings 'lost' Pacific music back to life - ABC Pacific

For the past 20 years, PARADISEC has digitised music recordings which date back decades and feature more than 1300 Pacific languages.

abc.net.au

🌍 The #WDPD2025 logos are out now in multiple languages! Download yours here: buff.ly/udZTOpU and show your support for World Digital Preservation Day 2025 across your channels on 6 Thursday November 2025🎉 #DigitalPreservation #WDPD #Celebrations #freedownload #DPC #digipres #community

[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search

From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched

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Just registered for the "Shaping the Archives of Tomorrow" event, Sept 1–2 in Vienna. If you’re there too, let’s grab a coffee and chat! Archives, IIIF, annotation, digital humanities... or anything else at the intersection of libraries, archives, museums, and tech. 📍 www.icar-us.eu/en/english-d...

#DPC Members👋🏼 We are starting a Databases Special Interest Group! Join our launch meeting on August 13th at 15:00 UTC 🚀 This DPC member-exclusive forum will tackle key challenges to preserving databases and is your online space to sharing solutions. Join us […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Using ARK identifiers to simplify access to open data at the National Library of France arks.org/news/2025-07...

Access to open data at the National Library of France using ARK variants

An early adopter of ARKs, the BnF has developed practices for displaying persistent linked open data (LOD) using ARK suffixes for object variants.

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The ARK Alliance (arks.org) will convert its documentation practices to align with modern form ARKs, the most visible difference being removal of the slash ('/') at the end of "ark:/", a non-breaking change -- two ARKs that differ only in form are equivalent in perpetuity. arks.org/news/2025-07...

🌐💾 Preserve web history! #WebArchiving tools like @webarchive's Wayback Machine, @archiveis_ today (Tor-friendly 🔗), & @ghostarchive_org (🎥 dynamic content) ensure digital footprints stay intact. 📂✨ #LinkPermanence #DigitalPreservation #Internet web.archive.org archive.today ghostarchive.org

🚨 5 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY! The DPC is hiring two senior roles: → Head of Good Practice → Head of Workforce Development With staff already based in five different countries, the DPC welcomes applications from exceptional candidates around the world! Details & […] [Original post on digipres.club]

We are now experiencing 'permanent gaps in the global data corpus. In all these cases, coordinated actions could potentially have mitigated the scale of the data lost' www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

US data purges draw on a playbook used worldwide - Research Professional News

Make Trump’s censorship a catalyst to protect research everywhere, say Louise Bezuidenhout and Hugh Shanahan

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Sharon McMeekin and Paul Wheatley are excited to announce the launch of their new training and consultancy firm, Preserve Together. Offering a range of services to help build your capacity and skills, we aim to support individuals and organizations in achieving their digital preservation goals [1/4]

📚 Join our #DPClinic on April 25th where John Gostick will discuss Cambridge University Libraries' approach to preservation infrastructure and worksflows! Register at […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Workshop: Web Archive Collections as Data #iipcwac25 glamlabs.io/checklist/

A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in GLAM Institutions

A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in GLAM Institutions

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The slides for my #iipcWAC25 talk, "What You See No One Saw" are available at matkelly.com/presentation... #webarchiving

Ben Els from Luxembourg web archive discussing archiving social media of gov officials. Get them to export their own data. Motivation is everything!! #iipcwac25

László Tóth discusses his tool, warc-safe, at #iipcWAC25 for scanning WARC files for NSFW content: It takes a WARC, extracts recs, scans w/ ClamAV, and checks for NSFW content like nudity and pornographic content. It uses an AI that scans each image file. #webarchiving github.com/natliblux/wa...

#IIPCWAC25 Can we use AI + Web Archives to help departments retrieve their lost organisational memories? NOPE.

There’s always something happening in the world of digital preservation! Stay up to date with the latest news, community updates, projects, and upcoming events from the OPF: 📰 News: openpreservation.org/news/ 📅 Events: openpreservation.org/events/ #DigitalPreservation #OpenSource #JoinUs

Let's hear it for a collaborative community! #DPC Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) 3.0 is now available in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Japanese, and Turkish⁠⁠ - www.dpconline.org/news/ram-3-0... #digitalpreservation #digipres 📚

It’s #WebArchiveWednesday and Day 1 of #iipcWAC25 is about to begin! View the program and let us know what you’re looking forward to most: 👉 netpreserve.org/ga2025/progr... 👉 netpreserve.org/ga2025/works... @nettarkivet.bsky.social | #webarchiving

👋 anyone know of articles/blogs and/or has personal experience with: AI-bot scraper hinderung web archiving / web preservation let me know! #SafeguardingResearch #digipres

A while back, I started putting together my own collection of utils & helpers for working with IIIF resources in JavaScript/TypeScript more easily. I released it under MIT license–and finally got around to writing a proper Readme! 🎉 Hoping that other find this useful, too! github.com/rsimon/cozy-...

GitHub - rsimon/cozy-iiif: A developer-friendly collection of abstractions and utilities built on top of @iiif/presentation-3 and @iiif/parser.

A developer-friendly collection of abstractions and utilities built on top of @iiif/presentation-3 and @iiif/parser. - rsimon/cozy-iiif

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