Ambassador Andy Jackson<p>Fresh blog from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@makethecatwise" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>makethecatwise</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@dorothywaugh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dorothywaugh</span></a></span> and I about the Festival of Floppies, which was awesome fun!<br><a href="https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/preserving-digital-memory-at-the-festival-of-floppies-200f01092738" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalpreservation-blog.lib.c</span><span class="invisible">am.ac.uk/preserving-digital-memory-at-the-festival-of-floppies-200f01092738</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
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vga256<p>sometimes the internet fails to preserve culturally important works of high art like this Highlander: The Series multimedia CD-ROM experience</p><p>i've done my part in rescuing this disc from oblivion today. 🙏 </p><p>here it is playing back on my iMac G5. sorry about the background noise. the disc had to spin at 52x because there was so much power inside it</p><p>enjoy this mac OS X/win95 hybrid cd-rom here:</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/highlander_s3_cd-rom" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/highlander</span><span class="invisible">_s3_cd-rom</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/macromedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macromedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/flash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flash</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/highlander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highlander</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/digiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digiPres</span></a></p>
Nina Rao<p>Excited to receive this National Recording Preservation Foundation grant and work with Pitts Theology Library to digitize audio recordings of Howard Thurman!</p><p><a href="https://www.recordingpreservation.org/news/2025/nrpf-announces-audio-preservation-grants" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">recordingpreservation.org/news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/nrpf-announces-audio-preservation-grants</span></a></p><p>Congrats also to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution! (as a Massachusetts native, I have been in awe of them since childhood)</p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/AVpres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AVpres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>audio</span></a></p>
Digital Preservation Coalition<p>🖼️ Join DPC's next Museums & Galleries Special Interest Group meeting on Mon 17 Nov, 21:00–22:00 UTC where we’ll focus on Born Digital Cataloguing! Open to all DPC Members working with digital content in museums & galleries.</p><p>👉 Learn more & sign up: <a href="https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/540/-/museums-and-galleries-special-interest-group" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dpconline.org/events/eventdeta</span><span class="invisible">il/540/-/museums-and-galleries-special-interest-group</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPC</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Museums</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/BornDigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BornDigital</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DPCMembers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPCMembers</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/JoinUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoinUs</span></a></p>
Phil M0OFX<p>Does anyone remember a post about a floppy disk data-recovery PLL algorithm on either here or birdsite? I wanna say it was by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> but I'm not sure.<br>(I'm also interested in other algorithms folks might know, other than the naive binning/windowing method)<br><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
Digital Preservation Coalition<p>🌍 3 weeks to go until World Digital Preservation Day 2025!<br>On 6 November, the global celebration of <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digitalpreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalpreservation</span></a> kicks off live from Wellington during <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/iPRES2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iPRES2025</span></a> and circles the globe 🌎</p><p>🎉 The <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPC</span></a> has surprises in store - including a new version of the Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Species and freshly translated <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> resources!</p><p>Get the Event Pack with Zoom backgrounds, <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WDPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WDPD</span></a> BINGO + more 👇<br><a href="https://www.dpconline.org/news/wdpd2025-3-weeks-to-go" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dpconline.org/news/wdpd2025-3-</span><span class="invisible">weeks-to-go</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WDPD2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WDPD2025</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WhyPreserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhyPreserve</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a></p>
vga256<p>followup to that homer3d story in wired:</p><p>i managed to extract one partially-working flash SWF from cyberworld.imax.com. here it is, rendered with ruffle</p><p>it's wonderfully 2000s cyberdrivel. i only wish we had the entire site archived. 😅 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/macromedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macromedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/digiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digiPres</span></a></p>
Digital Preservation Coalition<p>🎉 JPEG 2000 turns 25!</p><p>To celebrate, the <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPC</span></a> is hosting a free online event on 19 Nov 2025 exploring how this standard has shaped digitization and digital preservation over the past quarter century.</p><p>Have YOU used JPEG 2000 in your work? We’d love to hear your story! 💬<br>Share a short case study or example by 24 October: michael.popham@dpconline.org</p><p>Save the date and join the conversation!<br>👉 <a href="https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/546/-/25th-anniversary-of-jpeg-2000" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dpconline.org/events/eventdeta</span><span class="invisible">il/546/-/25th-anniversary-of-jpeg-2000</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/JPEG2000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JPEG2000</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/JPEG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JPEG</span></a></p>
joshuatj<p>Woohoo! Great <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a> story <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@makethecatwise" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>makethecatwise</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2025100</span><span class="invisible">9-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks</span></a></p>
Digital Preservation Coalition<p>Exciting news!! ACMI, Australia’s national museum of screen culture, has joined the <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPC</span></a> as its latest Associate Member 🎉 A warm welcome to the Coalition, we look forward to working with the team in Melbourne 🤗 Read all about it - and how you can join too - here: <a href="https://www.dpconline.org/news/new-members-of-the-dpc/acmi-joins-dpc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dpconline.org/news/new-members</span><span class="invisible">-of-the-dpc/acmi-joins-dpc</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DPCAus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPCAus</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/JoinUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoinUs</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/LetsConnect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetsConnect</span></a></p>
FELSQUALLE.COM<p>While working with the game files of Masters of the Elements, I found omething exciting hidden in one of the script files: Multiple, undocumented cheat and debug codes.</p><p>Well, they were undocumented up until now, so without further ado, but a hefty spoiler warning, let’s see how we can bend the laws of time, train bats, or get infinitely lucky.</p><p><a href="https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/10/saving-the-masters-of-the-elements-part-5/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fabulous.systems/posts/2025/10</span><span class="invisible">/saving-the-masters-of-the-elements-part-5/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://manitu.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://manitu.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://manitu.social/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
James Truitt (he/him)<p>Really wild how difficult it is to bag things. My options:</p><p>1. Python Bagit lib. <br>Pro: Straightforward. <br>Con: Can't use bagger profiles or add metadata fields in a specific order</p><p>2. Bagger. <br>Pros: Profiles! Can edit existing bags! <br>Cons: Horrible Win95-esque UI, loses timestamps when bagging unless bagging in place, bagging in place scrambles field order & sometimes dies halfway through</p><p>3. Dart. <br>Pros: Profiles! Lovely GUI! <br>Cons: Can't edit existing bags, no support for tag files</p><p><a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a></p>
Bertrand Caron<p>I searched in the abyss of my file system and recovered an old meme I haven't shared with you yet.</p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/oais" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oais</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
Thorsted<p>Sheer madness at the thrift store looking at used CD’s. This is how violence starts…;) <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/someonewasbored" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>someonewasbored</span></a></p>
Digital Preservation Coalition<p>📣New from the DPC blog: Meet our new DPC staff members!</p><p>Get to know our new Head of Good Practice Garth Stewart and our new Head of Workforce Development Dorothy Waugh in conversation with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@JennyMitcham" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JennyMitcham</span></a></span> - on storytelling, digital preservation, and what’s next for the Digital Preservation Coalition. </p><p>Read more here👉🏽 <a href="https://www.dpconline.org/blog/meet-our-new-dpc-staff-members" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dpconline.org/blog/meet-our-ne</span><span class="invisible">w-dpc-staff-members</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPC</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/newstaff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newstaff</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Welcome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Welcome</span></a> 😊</p>
Susan Borda<p>Tools I use a lot for my job: <a href="https://regex101.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">regex101.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, CLI scripting, and Python. Perhaps, I should write a blog about it. What tools do other preservation people use? <br><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/regex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regex</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/bash_scripting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bash_scripting</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
Sharon McMeekin<p>Putting this question out across the various socials: where do people sit these days on the concept of "Significant Properties"? <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
Digital Preservation Coalition<p>Want to know more about the maintenance and use of format registries in digital preservation? Please join Thursday's meeting of our Preservation Registries Special Interest Group. All are welcome 😊</p><p>Sign up for the dedicated email mailing list to receive joining info: <br><a href="https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/539/-/preservation-registries-special-interest-group" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dpconline.org/events/eventdeta</span><span class="invisible">il/539/-/preservation-registries-special-interest-group</span></a></p><p>When: Thursday 2 Oct<br>Time: 10-11pm UTC <br><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPC</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/JoinUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoinUs</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/LetsConnect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetsConnect</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/formats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>formats</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/registries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>registries</span></a></p>
James Truitt (he/him)<p>Hello <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a> people, does anyone have a preferred normalization format for born-digital video? </p><p>Or is digital video too heterogeneous for there to be an easy, across-the-board answer?</p>
Digital Preservation Coalition<p>📢 Calling all DPC Members!</p><p>World Digital Preservation Day (<a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WDPD2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WDPD2025</span></a>) is in 6 weeks from today! This year we’re asking the big question: Why Preserve?</p><p>We invite you to share your blogs, vlogs, or short testimonials on why your organisation preserves digital material. Share your reason with us today!</p><p>Submit by 6 Oct 👉 <a href="https://www.dpconline.org/news/wdpd2025-share-your-stories" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dpconline.org/news/wdpd2025-sh</span><span class="invisible">are-your-stories</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WDPD2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WDPD2025</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WhyPreserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhyPreserve</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digitalpreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalpreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DPC</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/JoinUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoinUs</span></a></p>
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