Hacker News with Generative AI: Digital Preservation

Century-Scale Storage (law.harvard.edu)
This piece looks at a single question. If you, right now, had the goal of digitally storing something for 100 years, how should you even begin to think about making that happen? How should the bits in your stewardship be stored with such a target in mind? How do our methods and platforms look when considered under the harsh unknowns of a century? There are plenty of worthy related subjects and discourses that this piece does not touch at all.

Data Storage, Digital Preservation, Technology

18 points by fanf2 37 days ago | 0 comments

La Basilica Di San Pietro (microsoft.com)
Photogrammetry, AI, and digital preservation combine to create a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica with thousands of images, allowing visitors to explore it in detail from anywhere in the world.

Photogrammetry, AI, Digital Preservation, Virtual Reality, History

145 points by geox 59 days ago | 69 comments

Tinfoil.com – Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds (tinfoil.com)
— Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds —

History, Audio, Digital Preservation, Archives

79 points by cenazoic 67 days ago | 24 comments

Internet Archive "Save Page Now" has been re-enabled (archive.org)
The Wayback Machine is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, Digital Preservation, Technology, Non-Profit

19 points by motownphilly 75 days ago | 0 comments

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (archive.org)
In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history.

Culture, Digital Preservation, History

6 points by MrVandemar 79 days ago | 1 comments

More Basic Computer Games (archive.org)
Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books.

Computer Games, Digital Preservation, Archives

3 points by warrenm 81 days ago | 1 comments

Leave the Internet Archive Alone (computerworld.com)
Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm. But that hasn't stopped hackers from beating up on the site over and over again.

Internet Archive, Cybersecurity, Digital Preservation

30 points by CrankyBear 81 days ago | 19 comments

Data Lifeboat (flickr.org)
What should we do when a digital service sinks?

Data Loss, Digital Preservation, Digital Services

63 points by duck 87 days ago | 7 comments

The Internet Archive is back, in read-only mode (archive.org)
In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 8, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner.

Cybersecurity, Internet Archive, Web Archive, Digital Preservation

38 points by TechSquidTV 88 days ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: Where would you publish content that should outlive you? (ycombinator.com)

Long-Term Content, Online Publishing, Digital Preservation

50 points by sssilver 104 days ago | 56 comments

A Guide to Imaging Obscure Floppy Disk Formats (zenodo.org)
Memory institutions are grappling with the challenges posed by digital carriers in their collections. While solutions for more recent carriers like hard drives, optical discs, and flash storage are readily available, the landscape becomes trickier when dealing with older formats such as floppy disks.

Digital Preservation, Data Storage, Floppy Disks, Archives

6 points by zdw 111 days ago | 0 comments

The Internet Archive's Fight to Save Itself (wired.com)
The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.

Internet Archive, Legal Battles, Digital Preservation

43 points by leotravis10 112 days ago | 12 comments

No Data Lasts Forever (lilysthings.org)
No matter what you do, no data will last forever. You hard drive will fail. Your backup drives will fail. Tech companies will go under and sell off their assets. Optical Discs will rot. Books will decompose. Even if none of these things happen, a natural or manmade disaster could come by and destroy it all anyway.

Data Storage, Digital Preservation, Longevity

31 points by todsacerdoti 117 days ago | 14 comments

The critical window of shadow libraries (annas-archive.se)
At Anna’s Archive, we are often asked how we can claim to preserve our collections in perpetuity, when the total size is already approaching 1 Petabyte (1000 TB), and is still growing. In this article we’ll look at our philosophy, and see why the next decade is critical for our mission of preserving humanity’s knowledge and culture.

Data Preservation, Libraries, Digital Preservation

20 points by brettermeier 121 days ago | 0 comments

We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it? (bbc.com)
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.

Internet Archive, Digital Preservation, Web History, Data Loss

55 points by yamrzou 122 days ago | 8 comments

We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it? (bbc.com)
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.

Internet Archive, Digital Preservation, Web History, Data Loss

6 points by redbell 123 days ago | 0 comments

The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools (mistys-internet.website)
I’ve seen a lot of professional archivists who use flux disc image archiving techniques for their collections—a technique in which a specialized floppy controller captures the raw signal coming from the floppy drive so that it can be preserved and decoded in software. I haven’t, however, seen many archivists using enthusiast-developed low-level reading techniques for CD-ROM.

CD-ROM, Digital Preservation, Archives, Software

27 points by zdw 124 days ago | 2 comments

Google partners with Internet Archive to link to archives in search (9to5google.com)
Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results.

Google Search, Internet Archive, Search Engines, History, Digital Preservation

64 points by bhouston 129 days ago | 22 comments

New Feature Alert: Access Archived Webpages Directly Through Google Search (archive.org)
In a significant step forward for digital preservation, Google Search is now making it easier than ever to access the past. Starting today, users everywhere can view archived versions of webpages directly through Google Search, with a simple link to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

Search, Web Archives, Digital Preservation, Internet History

91 points by xnx 129 days ago | 17 comments

With more legal action on the horizon, how long before Archive.org closes? (locals.com)

Lawsuits, Archive.org, Internet Archive, Online Libraries, Digital Preservation

117 points by leotravis10 131 days ago | 98 comments

Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process (digitalpreservation-blog.nb.no)

Digital Preservation, Archives, Radio, Data Management

144 points by todsacerdoti 141 days ago | 36 comments

Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper (arstechnica.com)

Internet Archive, Digital Preservation, Books

6 points by bookofjoe 165 days ago | 1 comments

ArchiveTeam Warrior (archiveteam.org)