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How do we preserve access when the average URL breaks in just 100 days?

Join us for next week's #DPClinic on 17 March to explore ARK persistent identifiers with John Kunze (Drexel University) and discover a more flexible and inclusive approach to persistent […]

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Last American Road Trip, They Knew, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Sarah Kendzior books

Newly signed copies of my books are available at Left Bank Books in St Louis! They ship everywhere. Support a great independent bookstore and buy the books that explain the news: left-bank.com/product/sign...

The Marne at Chennevieres

The Marne at Chennevieres
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/14871

A Conversation with Carol Kussmann: Digital Preservation Analyst at the University of Minnesota Libraries This interview by Kari May is the thirteenth post in a new series of conversations between archivists actively working with digital materials. Carol Kussmann, is the Digital Preservation Analyst at…

A Conversation with Carol Kussmann: Digital Preservation Analyst at the University of Minnesota #Libraries (via @saa-official.bsky.social) saaers.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/a... #digipres #digitalpreservation #saa_ers

2026-02-12: How to archive web pages in bulk using the Internet Archive Google Sheets service The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

Hussam Hallak @hussamhallak.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives Over the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been ‘put it in the cloud.’ Many of us use cloud…

Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives medium.com/community-ar...

2025 has been a great year for the ARK Alliance. The 1720+ ARK organizations include 12 national libraries, 215 universities, 254 archives, 144 museums, 124 journals, and 59 scientific centers.
arks.org/news/2025-12...

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) announced in November 2025 that LA Referencia will receive up to US$1.5M in funding as one of the inaugural winners of the IOI Network Adoption Fund. arks.org/news/2025-12...

One year ago we launched the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) publish-review-curate platform. This has been one of the most exciting things I've been involved in over the past year.

Very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the development of MetaROR!

Here's our latest pyramid scheme.

picture of Madison, Minnesota

picture of Madison, Minnesota

picture of Madison, Minnesota

picture of Madison, Minnesota

Madison, Minnesota
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,_Minnesota

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CSU Colorado Mesonet recognized by American Association of State Climatologists for over thirty years of service - Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering The Colorado Agricultural and Meteorological Network, known as CoAgMET, was recognized with the American Association of State Climatologists 30 Year Mesonet Award for contributing more than 30 years o...

CoAgMET---the Colorado Agricultural Meteorological network, aka Colorado's Mesonet---was recently recognized for over 30 years of data collection. Read more about the award and the network in this story from CSU Source. Here's to 30 more years of valuable weather and climate information! #cowx

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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.

New case study on the French National Library's use of archival resource keys for data discovery.

arks.org/news/2025-07...

Celebration at the rainbow: Pride Heritage District to be recognized Years of research went into making the case for a Pride Cultural Heritage District in San Antonio, set to be celebrated Friday, June 20.

sanantonioreport.org/a-celebratio...

www.infodocket.com/2025/06/17/r...

Short answer is yes.

Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter

"Ardam was confronting a different, somewhat sensitive question about navigating a person’s digital history. When Sontag donated her laptop to the archive, did she realize how much she was giving away?" on archiving digital ephemera and culture -- www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

The Documentary - America: The human plasma factory - BBC Sounds Kathleen McLaughlin investigates the multibillion-dollar global plasma industry

I have a new radio documentary out this week on the BBC World Service, you can hear it here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Imagining Elon Musk drooling at the prospect of feeding the entire Library of Congress into his plagiarism machine.

To Sell Prized Paintings, a University Proclaims They’re Not ‘Conservative’ Valparaiso University is arguing it should never have acquired two paintings, including a Georgia O’Keeffe, in the 1960s. It hopes to sell them to pay for dorm renovations.

From 2024. Quite an interesting "deaccessioning" case. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/a...

So pleased to see these go live - new workflows for digital preservation: one on emails and one (a bit more conceptual) on line of business systems: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

These should help you get your brain around steps and options in these format-specific headaches.

This is a very hard time to promote a book -- especially if you've written bestsellers critiquing the regime. If you've appreciated any of the work I've done, please share this and get the word out. Thank you!

PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history 1000+ PS5 builds, plus files from past PlayStation eras, back to Arc the Lad in 1994

NEW: A tiny team at PlayStation has preserved 650 terabytes (and counting) of PlayStation Studios' game-making history

- Release and pre-release builds of games, documentation, art, team photos, you name it.
- A GDC talk about it ended with a terrific revelation

www.gamefile.news/p/playstatio...

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages […]

Fabulous book, highly recommend.

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content Analysis of Archives Job Postings 

I'm thrilled to announce that the new issue of The American Archivist contains a brand new article by Helen Wong Smith, Dawn Schmitz, Cyndi Shein, and Lisa Schmitz: Recruiting for Cultural Competency: A Content…

Applications now open for @atbw.bsky.social’s Web Archiving School. We’re recruiting fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Everyone is paid. Apply by January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/