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Barbarian Librarian
@johndewees.com
Librarian working in digital preservation in Rochester, New York
Looking forward to #NDSADigiPRES2025 on October 9-10th. Will be great to see how others have confronted the challenges of sustaining #digitalpreservation work amid instability and unpredictability. Registration still open at: www.eventbrite.com/e/ndsa-digip...
NDSA DigiPres2025
NDSA is holding DigiPres 2025 - “Where We’re At: Digital Preservation in Uncertain Times” as a virtual conference on October 8-10, 2025.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
NDSA invites proposals for its annual conference, Digital Preservation 2025: Where We're At (Digital Preservation in Uncertain Times). This virtual event will take place October 9-10, 2025.

Deadline: July 7, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Learn more: ndsa.org/conference/d...
June 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
For anyone working in libraries doing digital preservation, lift up your colleagues by nominating folks for the NDSA Excellence Awards! Information on the award and a link to the form can be found here: ndsa.org/groups/excel...
Excellence Awards
The annual NDSA Innovation Awards were established in 2012 to recognize and encourage exemplary achievement in the field of digital preservation stewardship. Seeking to highlight and commend all fo...
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May 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A wrote up a blog post explaining a script I wrote to transform content exported from Preservica to another digital preservation environment. Feedback appreciated! Disclaimer: I'm not a developer and my code shows it.
Migrating from Preservica
Introduction Initial State Campus (April 05, 1935) Aerial View of the University of Rochester Medical Center, 1961 Gower, John. Confessio Amantis, Volume 3 Correspondence from John McGraw to Mary McGraw, March 23, 1864 Scripting the Transformation Import Statements Path Declarations Logging and Tracking For Loop and Unpacking METS Root METS Header METS Metadata: Descriptive METS Metadata: Administrative METS Record Creation…
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May 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Barbarian Librarian
The quickly disappearing web
What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
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December 18, 2024 at 1:10 PM
@theverge.com when does Content Goblins start shipping out of curiosity? I missed the Pirate Radio zine and thoroughly rue the day and don't want to miss this glorious publication
December 17, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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November 27, 2024 at 10:52 PM