#digital preservation

[oldphonepreservation]

Some GUI screenshots from the Sprint LG LX400:

#digital preservation #lg #sprint #mobile phone #flip phone #retro tech

[meeedeee]

The Internet Archive is under attack by corporations seeking to wrest more and more of our fair use rights, our public spaces and our communities from the public good. The Archive was recently forced into a settlement for scanning and digitizing legally purchased books. They are now facing a $325 million lawsuit for accepting donations of old 78 RPM historical music records that were digitized by volunteers. The goal is not only to stop the distribution of these works, but to create new legal precedents that make it illegal to preserve or archive for any reason. This will have a significant impact on our culture, our communities, and our future

Here is how you can help them

1. Use The Internet Archive Site

2. Save websites via "Save Page Now" browser tool

3. Become a patron to get a free "library card"

4. Curate & Upload to the Archive

5. Tell People That the Internet Archive Exists

6. Browse The Many, Many Collections

7. Take care of yourself and the people you care about

(Link will take you to a blog article that goes into these suggestions in detail)

#the internet archive #internet archive #fair use #copyright abuse #capitalism #digital archiving #digitization #digital preservation #archiving #fandom history #our culture #our voices #our past #our present #our future #libraries

[disastergay]

As the impending heat death of the internet, our library of alexandria, inches ever closer, here are some resources that will teach you everything you need to know about digital archiving.

Digital preservation is the only process that can and will preserve everything you love that (currently) only exists in the digital realm. It’s not 100% guaranteed to work, but let’s be real—your own painstakingly, personally, manually cultivated digital archive is all you’ll have left of the images, blogs, recipes, videos, fics, fanzines, games, servers, forums, articles, peer-reviewed scientific studies, “illegal” musicals and even the friends you found online, when the internet is completely gone.

And yes, you can trust me on this, because I've had to help family friends create a personal digital archive of their own. She chose to pay for archiving software in the end, but that's not important.

The basics of/anticipating potential roadblocks to adequate digital preservation:

What to expect from the quality of your digital archive in the future:

Also! Fun fact: you can download the files that make up your entire tumblr blog!

Any additional resources you have or know of would be greatly appreciated, so please don't hesitate to share them.

Please spread this post so that it finds the people who need it the most right now.

#Youtube #digital archiving #digital preservation #the internet is dying

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Another great bit of tumblr history I have to archive because I refuse to accept the inability to reblog.

#digital preservation #work stories #other people's stories #denny's #dennys

[mortalityplays]

btw the guy who took those amazing shots for us is a genuinely phenomenal live arts/music photographer who has taken tons of fucking iconic shots of some of the most important musicians of the last 40 years. I highly recommend browsing his archive if you're a music oldhead.

he also lost a TON of his work on two separate occasions - once when sheriff's officers seized one of his exhibitions over a tax dispute and stored the photographs in a mouldy basement, destroying all of them, and again more recently when his home office flooded. he's trying to raise money now to digitise his life's work, to 1. safeguard it from that kind of shit ever happening again and 2. make the archive available to photography and arts students

anyway disclosure time he's also my dad, but the first two paragraphs stand. seriously check out his work and consider supporting this massive art preservation effort.

#photography #music #digital preservation

[nostalgiamare]

#SAVETHEINTERNETARCHIVE

I know this is a very different post compared to the other stuff I’m putting on this blog and I know some of you have been waiting for the next entry (Which will be out soon be assured-) but currently something more important needs to be heard. the Internet Archive is struggling hard and I’m very worried that it could be lost forever if nothing is done to fight back (Might be an exaggeration because at the moment they stated only the books section is in danger but still) The Internet Archive has always been my go to for providing links to nostalgic media (It’s one of my inspirations for working as an archivist as well as this blog being made in the first place-) and without it millions of blogs, websites and projects wouldn’t have existed, including mine. We need to help!

MORE INFO ON THIS CASE AND HOW TO HELP HERE: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

OTHER BLOG POSTS FROM THE I.A DETAILING THE CASE

 https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/20/stand-with-internet-archive-as-we-fight-for-the-digital-rights-of-all-libraries/

https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

#nostalgiamare #Help #internet archive #wayback machine #digital preservation #important

[deathcupcake]

I had one of those days that makes me realize how much of my work experience existed before my current staff entered the workforce.

The employee who is 25 years younger than myself asked a simple question today - one that I'm sure she didn't realize would make me laugh.

She was answering a publisher inquiry about photographs that were sent for publication. The publisher wrote back to say that the author of the book had sent low resolution images and to please send high resolution versions.

My employee was desperately trying to find the images. We manage a repository of 4 million+ digital media files, and a sister unit manages a repository of at least that amount, plus several million undigitized film negatives/positives, but she could only find the low resolution images in either repository. So she asked for assistance.

I took one look at the year the images were taken and started giggling.

I had to explain to her that these photos were taken by a digital camera. In 2001.

I had been working here for 11 years when these photographs were taken. I remember them, I remember the event, I remember that our place of business was still officially using film because it would take several more years for digital cameras to be of a sufficient quality to match film quality (I believe we finally switched over to fully digital around 2005/6). But these photographs were digital only because event photography was usually taken for the business records and therefore did not have to be preservation quality (not that we called it that back then, but you get the point).

Hell, even most of the photographers that captured the events of September 11, 2001 were still using film. Film was the standard medium back then.

So I informed her that this "low resolution" was the maximum the camera could output, and what the book publisher has IS the highest quality that ever existed. Thanks to our metadata, we know it was taken by a Fujifilm digital camera with a whopping 3.1 megapixel chip.

Then I did the math. This employee was...six...when these photographs were taken. She wouldn't have ever experienced a world without the Internet, much less digital cameras, computers (and 5-1/4 inch floppy discs! cartridges! zip disks!), and maybe even cell phones. I doubt she had a walkman and probably not even a discman, given that the iPod debuted in 2001, and other digital music players were already on the market.

I do think it's funny, though, that I watched this whole rise and fall of analog and digital media consumer hardware happen, and so my understanding of the technical capabilities of the era are so internalized that I expect everyone to make the same inferences. Gotta check my assumptions. :)

And yes, I am old.

#way to make me feel old! #digital media history #digital preservation #media preservation #i can't get over how fast media technology has changed tbh #it's almost mind boggling

[pizzatowershow]

So, update

Let's start with the good news. Main Artist Pyng(@somecartoonisttalkshere) has escaped from her art block and is finally going to be working on the first official post to start off this blog.

Even more good news is that I'm officially on break, which means I can be able to write more freely without stress and such. Though, it's not without some challenges which leads onto the bad news. I haven't been in the best of moods lately due to my current existential crisis about time and the future of humanity itself. Not helping is the current news of the Internet Archive being sued, again, by music labels, a lawsuit which i'm terrified and hopeless about. These have been affecting my motivation to write and increased my procrastination. Although, I do have friends on discord who are always there to help me out of my bad moods and give me motivation to continue. As for the Internet Archive, I think we should do our part to help them and make sure that they don't shut down in case they have to pay the labels money. https://archive.org/donate?origin=iawww-TopNavDonateButton Updates will be slow as usual, but the project is not dead, so stay tuned! ~Writer Coolkatisa

#pizza tower #pizza tower ex!au #pizza tower game #pizza tower au #pizza tower fanart #pizza tower oc #pizza tower spoilers #update #internet archive #wayback machine #digital preservation #archive #archiving #media preservation #historic preservation #music preservation

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Today I learned about the video game Chernobylite and how the devs took crazy detailed scans and stuff of inside the exclusion zone, places that will probably never been seen again, to make the game world and now I'm remembering how, when the tower burned, Notre Dame was rebuilt using the crazy detailed schematics from an Assassin's Creed game and now I'm thinking about video games as a means of preservation

Personally, that video game sounds like a much safer way of exploring the reactor than venturing into the exclusion zone...

Unfortunately, Assassin's Creed isn't/wasn't actually used in the Notre Dame reconstruction efforts. That link leads to a good article that talks about a lot of the issues that come up when we try to think of virtual recreations as 1:1 versions of real structures. I'm sure that there are a lot of interesting scholarly publications out there that explore this topic further.

-Reid

#he speaks #notre dame #video games #chernobyl #digital preservation

[oldphonepreservation]

Samsung SGH-D307 animated wallpapers

The four selectable animated wallpapers ripped from the recent Samsung SGH-D307 firmware dump. In order: "Digital Clock", "Jack1", "Jack2", "Jack3"

#digital preservation #samsung #flip phone #mobile phone #cingular #y2kcore

[meeedeee]

When is a library not a library? When it’s online, apparently

"If you buy a physical book, you are allowed to sell or lend it because of a legal principle known as the “first sale doctrine,” which gives the owner of a (physical) object the right to dispose of that object in whatever way they wish, regardless of copyright. The Archive argued that the same principle should protect the sale or lending of a legally purchased digital copy, pointing out that all the copies of books it lent out had previously been acquired lawfully by libraries.'...

The Internet Archive’s lawyers also pointed to a Supreme Court decision, from the nineteen eighties, ruling that using a Sony Betamax video-cassette recorder to make a copy of a TV show was fair use. The Archive argued that its digital copies of print books similarly “improved the efficiency of delivering content to one entitled to receive the content” in a way that didn’t “unreasonably encroach on the commercial entitlements of the rights holder.” "

#fair use #first sale doctrine #your VCRs #your DVR #You're right to record a TV show to watch later #controlled digital lending #digital libraries #libraries #archiving #preservation #digital preservation #the internet archive #internet archive #copyright abuse

[royallylilac]

the tiktok situation is pretty awful from a preservation perspective. digital preservation is already a mad scramble to get ahead of obsolete technology, but it's even worse in the case of online born content like social media. i know people like to say what gets posted online is there forever, but in actuality it's all very fragile.

we've got letters and journals written by people hundreds of years ago, and with proper curation they can last hundreds more. our present is another story. most young people today won't leave behind physical records when they die, and almost nobody is going to save their texts or emails for future generations to learn from. if and when tiktok goes down, it's going to leave a big hole in our recorded history. tons of missing context.

#tiktok #tiktok ban #digital preservation #i guess what i'm really saying is we should all keep diaries

[cryoverkiltmilk]

committing this one to tumblr for preservation purposes

#subway #sandwiches #mayo #mayonnaise #godspeed ethan #digital preservation

[thatsmytrunks]

Nintendo Koushiki Guidebook Series: Super Mario World

On my first day back from Japan I disassembled, scanned, and uploaded the entirety of the first Nintendo Koushiki Guidebook for Super Mario World. It's in Japanese but has a ton of art I'd never seen before, and is created by APE Inc, who would go on to make MOTHER 2 / EarthBound.

Read it easily and freely here: https://archive.org/details/raw-scans

#super mario world #mario #game preservation #digital preservation #media preservation

[canis-slamais]

Idk where else to look for so I'm asking the Tumblr Gods to see if anyone can help

Is there any way of ripping a program off a game disk designed for windows 95/98? Specifically 2 chess games in what looks like CDs or DVDs.

They're legit copies, not CDs containing ISOs, and I'm afraid that using my windows 11 laptop could somehow fuck up the disc's contents

Any help is appreciated!

#media preservation #important #very important #original post #pls help #tumblr help #media piracy #need #digital preservation #salamidog speaks

[humormehorny]

When people talk about digital piracy, this is why

#alpha protocol #piracy #digital piracy #ownership #drm #Youtube #digital preservation #digital archival #abandoned wear