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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜@lynnemthomas.com |
:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.
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Sandra Tayler
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I'm beginning to feel better about the fact that I take each year's blog entries and turn them into a POD book. I've done that since 2004 livejournal days
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Deborah
@deborah-c.bsky.social
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Sheesh. You’d have thought just MAYBE they’d have learned from Doctor Who…
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Ruby
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Ugh, yes. I work for a very large university library and I always get asked why we need to have so many physical books when everything’s online now. This is why!!
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Fauxmorian
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All preservation is fighting against clawing entropy, I think many people imagine digital storage as immune to this but it just isn't true. Preservation is a process, not an end state regardless of format. Formats with the least barriers ensure the highest chance of a work surviving
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Johan Kristian Milde
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Working at an archive digitalisation project, it cannot be overstated how fast digital archives disappear into the void unless there’s staff actively working to keep it alive – in a neglected paper archive you can usually rescue *something*, digital is just gone.
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Sean Kelly
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Yeah, the way a lot of paper archives persist past the moment short-sighted executives see a use for them is that it's often cheaper to just leave them wherever they are than it is to have someone come get rid of them. With digital archives a lot of this stuff is actively costing money to maintain.
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Sven "ptoing" Ruthner
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Indeed. I feel this goes for a lot of digital content, games as well. There are a lot of older arcade games which have not been preserved yet, as in dumped to roms & if it does not happen they might be lost forever, w/ sourcecodes already gone. Capitalism does not care about preservation. No profit.
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BuffaloResearch.com
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The proliferation of cheap flatbed scanners for home use convinced everyone that putting things online merely requires scanning.
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Becca's Mullet
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This is so grim.
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John Castiglione
@johncastiglione.bsky.social
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What's a "scalable" (hate that word) solution, in your opinion? How do we get digital info onto lasting media?
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oinonio
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Years and years ago I was at C— University in the kafkaesque named “Bibliographic Control Division” I was responsible for changing the catalog records of the newly “digitized” books , pulling their physical catalog card, and then dumping the book in the trash. I made working in television seem fun
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si oppington
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I believe it's pronounced "liberrian"
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Wudang96 💜🌻
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I've kept most of my digital business records for 30 years and at least one of the machines I need to be able to read them. I have printed everything possible. It's not possible to print video. Digital preservation requires both the media and the tools to display it. It's not simple.
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treedweller
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I remember when I used to record movies on the high-quality VHS tapes so they’d last forever.
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Samantha (Sam) Mills
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I'm at a tiny place and deal directly with the Board, so every time there is a new member I get to explain why I don't just digitize everything, why the cloud isn't the answer, what it actually costs, why I still print our most vital documents on paper...
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Cephaccino!
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Hm. I feel like I should go and print out my Google Drive worth of documents I don't ever want to lose, but having just cleaned out the garage of my deceased father, I also don't want to leave a pile of shit for my kids to have to deal with. Archiving is so hard in terms of deciding what to keep.
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Uthor
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I hate how much time it takes, but at this point, I keep a copy (and backups!) of anything I'll want to keep. Like, it'd be nice to use streaming services and have everyone share a single data source and not need to make copies of everything, but I don't trust having access to that stuff.
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[TLB] Klaus
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In my archives class 20 years ago the teacher said the current answer to how to preserve emails was “print them out” lol…
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Ashley (One of Many)
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*shudders in digitizing in ABBYY and having to verify that no, that ampersand is not the number 4 and that number 4 isn't an ampersand for several straight hours*
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sinéad
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Exactly the same problem is true of film, as movie studios and creators are discovering.
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Florida Man, PhD
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Digital archivist here: we constantly have to explain to every faculty member proposing digital projects that said project is more like a puppy than a book--it requires constant care and attention right up until the day it dies. In other words: someone has to pay for every minute it remains standing
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partwave∴
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*reminds me of* this film
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boo...
it was never going to be called
the kindle of eli...
cmos/clock battery would av been dead
*discontinued* os updates not found
ssl certs out of date
ect
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partwave∴
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😔
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Ill Topo
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It's not a technological problem either - we have tape and optical discs that are designed to last for decades. It's all a matter of will, and like you mentioned, the only motivator these days is profit
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