The Problem Isn't Email, It's Microsoft Exchange -- it turns out my 2011-vintage rant still rings true, now also available trackerless: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_problem_isnt_email_its_microsoft_exchange.html #inefficiency #timewasted #email #archiving #microsoft #exchange #compliance #deduplication #unsolvedproblems #smtp #mail #annoyances
@gutenberg_org @internetarchive is anyone doing anything about the idea of including the codec with the scan for future future generations? I love digital archiving but at the same time there are already videos in my own archive that I can no longer easily decode.
#software #codec #transcoding #archiving #archival #digitalArchaeology
Just discovered ArchiveBox — FOSS, self-hosted internet archiving.
The way the web is going, with the US government redacting and outright erasing historic content, publishers segmenting content by region (and also sometimes redacting/censoring it), and CloudFlare shitting all over everything, I think it's time for me to start my #archiving and #DataHoarding journey.
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
@jalefkowit I now wonder if the wires-soldered-to-the-VCR trick could pick up chroma dot information. Looking at you, Year of the Sex Olympics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Sex_Olympics#Production
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!
Someone has to save the Film and TV that Studios won't
A great interview with Chris Person of Aftermath, who has over the course of the past 2 years has become something of a VHS decoding savant
What technology would you suggest I use to start building a web-based log/database of things in my collection/archive?
These range from books to prints to original artworks to stickers and even small physical objects.
I was looking at Zotero, which ticks a few boxes, but would prefer something that's a bit more stripped back in terms of detail, and works for a wider range of items.
Can be self-hosted, although I don't have a huge budget.
A fascinating afternoon sorting things for archiving or disposing. The left row is all drivers. A full set of AWE32 drivers were found.
@hacks4pancakes 
perhaps something for #DataHoarders https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/data-hoarders-race-to-preserve-data-from-rapidly-disappearing-u-s-federal-websites and others: https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/webinar-federal-data-disappearing-and-who-is-saving-it/7356 @SafeguardingResearch
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!
Can someone give me #archiving advice?
I've started some archival collections and placed them at US universities, figuring that those had the best chances for long-term storage. I think that specialty archiving organizations are likely to run out of money or get shut down at some point and US national archives are going to get censored or destroyed. But US universities are not holding up very well. Any ideas for outside-the-US stable institutions that would be interested in US collections?
https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov
As people in the #Data Hoarding and #archiving communities have pointed out on 21/01 there were 307854 datasets on data.gov Thursday, there are 305564 datasets. Many of the deletions happened immediately after #Trump was inaugurated, according to snapshots of the website saved on the #InternetArchive’s #WaybackMachine A researcher has been taking snapshots of Data.gov’s datasets both before and after the inauguration, and has worked to create a full archive of the data
"This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don’t save it, even if it seems like it’s everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear."
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/
And it's officially live.
"The Video Game History Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. This library is our way of sharing our collections of rare video game history materials."
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.
"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:
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.
https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov
As people in the Data Hoarding and #archiving communities have pointed out, on January 21, there were 307,854 datasets on #datagov. As of Thursday, there are 305,564 datasets. Many of the #deletions happened immediately after Trump was inaugurated, according to snapshots of the #website saved on the #InternetArchive’s #WaybackMachine Harvard Univ researcher Jack Cushman has been taking snapshots of Data.gov’s datasets both before and after the inauguration #disparition
"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."
