If digital preservation is your thing and you are wondering about doing that in the cloud you might be interested in our experience:
Our obligatory #Introduction post:
We are a cloud-based software platform that helps take the stress out of building and managing your #DigitalArchives. We work with several archiving and digital preservation technology vendors and are part of the eArchiving consortium working with the European Commission.
We will be launching our software soon so watch this space! We’ve joined Mastodon to be part of the #DigPres community and to offer our services. Looking forward to getting to know you all!
#introduction #digitalarchives #digpres
#digpres success story:
the archive (from 1867) of an italian daily newspaper, La Stampa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Stampa was going to be dismissed as it was based on a flash player.
then someone discovered on the Wayback a page reporting a CC license https://web.archive.org/web/20150314180058/http://www.lastampa.it/archivio-storico/#lastampa_note_legali
soon the archive is scraped and published on IA (also a ~1Tb torrent available
https://archive.org/details/la-stampa-newspaper
meanwhile archive's owners announce a new release in Q1 2021
sources (ita):
https://tedeschini.medium.com/larchivio-storico-della-stampa-offline-torner%C3%A0-disponibile-il-15-febbraio-b4af98feeb79
https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/
Sabato 4 aprile è la giornata del 404. L'errore #HTTP404 è il triste segno di un documento perduto.
http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/happy-404-day-/
La wayback machine di #InternetArchive cerca di eliminarlo dalla nostra vita. Archiviazione e #digpres / #digipres sono un dovere verso la cultura.
#HTTP404 #internetarchive #digpres #digipres
Heartbreaking article on the #InternetArchive.
https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/19/love-loss-and-archives/
I may be a bit obsessed with #digpres, but losing forever memory of your loved ones is a terrifying thought. #nt
Non solo #AcquaAlta, piene e allagamenti: le #biblioteche sono continuamente a rischio distruzione e vanno preservate ogni giorno.
ALA chiede di proteggere le istituzioni statali USA dalle minacce #copyright: è il caso Allen v. Cooper.
https://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/documents/united-states-documents/amicus-briefs/lca-joins-amicus-brief-frederick-l-allen-et-al-v-roy-a-cooper-iii/
#acquaalta #biblioteche #copyright #digipres #digpres
One of 103 things publishers do for you: letting domain names bitrot and lapse so that 5000 #Wikipedia pages can finally link scammers.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Miscellaneous&oldid=19484667#Hijacked_domain_and_predatory_spam
The #InternetArchive and #OpenAccess repositories will save the day, not alleged corporate #digpres.
#wikipedia #internetarchive #openaccess #digpres
@raffaele @reto Hey Raffaele we need more of your #digpres / #digipres content here on the fediverse! What about enabling the bridge https://moa.party , it takes a minute.
another impressive tech story that I haven't heard many talk about is how SaaS has changed #digpres