Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 18/03/2025aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.comGovernment need not 'reinvent the wheel' digitising servicesThe Government need not 'reinvent the wheel' when digitising services, according to a leading tech chief executive. 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 17/02/2025www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...rnz.co.nzRemembering the Poly-1: What NZ’s forgotten home-grown school computer can teach us about state-led innovationAnalysis - The story of the Poly-1 has enduring lessons about research and innovation policy - and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration. 020
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 15/10/2024www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...cbsnews.comNot just the Constitution: How the National Archives protects billions of historical documentsIt's not just home to the U.S.'s founding documents. The National Archives safeguards about 13.5 billion paper records, including the check used to buy Alaska and Adolf Hitler's will. 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 08/10/2024Look what I found in a 20+ year old comic book! 010
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 20/09/2024How to stop LinkedIn from training AI with your data | www.interest.co.nz/technology/1... 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 18/09/2024New blog post from N Stillman -- theglobalfairspace.com/2024/09/17/e... Equity Begins at Homeaus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com#7 Equity Begins🗺️at HomeHello, Everyone. It’s been a few months, and I’m now temporarily situated on the other side of the world in the Northern Hemisphere on sabbatical - been catching up with family and friends, and have a... 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 27/08/2024Experiment to plug Te Papa collections into ChatGPT blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/08/22/e...blog.tepapa.govt.nzExperiment to plug Te Papa collections into ChatGPT | Te Papa’s BlogIt would be hard to miss that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen an exponential rise in programming, availability, use, and debate in the last few years. Here at Te Papa, we’ve been looking at p… 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 19/08/2024"The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age" www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1...technologyreview.comThe race to save our online lives from a digital dark ageWe’re making more data than ever. What can—and should—we save for future generations? And will they be able to understand it? 011
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 15/08/2024Dealing with killer collections - Archives New Zealand www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3503...thepost.co.nzThe Post 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 08/08/2024Vintage Zenith / Heathkit HERO 2000 robot for sale! www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...trademe.co.nzVintage Robot - A Rare Find! | Trade Me MarketplaceThis Healthkit HERO 2000 (ET-19) is considered to be a collectors item due to its rarity. It dates from the 1980s, and only 3,000 were produced. It was an ed... 010
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 16/07/2024GOVIS 2024 - Trust to Innovate -- tickets still available! Gonna be a great conference. www.govis.org.nz/conference-2...govis.org.nzConference 2024 | GOVIS Incorporated 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 10/07/2024Does anyone have a spare CN50 - 50 pin SCSI terminator I can have? Bonus if you have tested it and KNOW it is good. #digitalpreservation 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 26/06/2024Installed Debian 12 on a new machine. Had to swap out the SCSI card until I found one that terminated correctly. After much hassle I got Python3 installed and set up a venv. Got tapeimgr installed and running. ... but it doesn't see the tape drive. Disappointment. github.com/KBNLresearch...github.comGitHub - KBNLresearch/tapeimgr: Simple tape imaging and extraction toolSimple tape imaging and extraction tool. Contribute to KBNLresearch/tapeimgr development by creating an account on GitHub. 010
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 21/06/2024youtu.be/a9zdz780l-U?...youtu.beTHE FIRST HALF-MILLION VOLT D.C. TRANSMISSION LINE (1965) (AAPG W3606/1161)How electricity is fed to the Cook Strait submarine cable. Surveying for the line; building the bridges, roads, and camps needed; erecting a tower above Benm... 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 28/05/2024Thank you @euanc.bsky.social - the King of "dd"! We got stuff off a tape! Don't know what it is we've got yet, but we've got *something*! 110
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 21/05/2024RIP MS WordPad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad "There will be no successor."en.wikipedia.orgWordPad - Wikipedia 011
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 14/05/2024AT&T 1600 / 6250 9-Track Tape Drive 010
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 14/05/2024... and with a little command line magic I was able to mount a 9-track tape using FreeBSD. Of course, the tape was blank ... 220
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 08/05/2024Today we received an NCR System 3400 computer. "System 3400 models [...] support DOS, OS/2, SCO UNIX, and UNiX System V Release 4.0." -- which OS should I use first? ps-2.kev009.com/ncr3xxx/thec...ps-2.kev009.comTHE CORE MEMORY: NCR Computers of the 20th Century 101
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 10/04/2024Having *some* success with FreeBSD. But it does funny things with DNS nameservers when grabbing a lease from a DHCP server ... 010
Reposted by Digital Preservation Practical Implementers GuildEuan Cochrane @euanc.bsky.social · 03/04/2024"The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk The high-profile creator of magnetic media gave it up nearly three decades ago" spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy 011
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 28/03/2024I have spent the day attempting to install packages onto a FreeBSD machine off DVD because the internet doesn't work. 51% thrilling / 49% frustrating. 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 26/03/2024Managed to get FreeBSD installed on an old Dell desktop that had a PCI slot for a SCSI card. 211
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 26/03/2024Using DoD 5220.22-M today. I had forgotten how long it takes to write ones and zeroes across a 40 GB hard-drive. HOURS. 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 14/02/2024E oho! Fighting the agents of deterioration — The archival story of Te Tiriti o Waitangi natlib.govt.nz/events/e-oho... #RichardFoyIsCaptainnatlib.govt.nz 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 14/02/2024GOVIS "Trust to Innovate" Conference August 2024 -- Call for Presentations now open! www.govis.org.nz/conference-2...govis.org.nzConference 2024 | GOVIS Incorporated 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 06/12/2023IBM ThinkPad 755CSE - runs Windows 95. Complete with docking station. Cost NZ$10k new. NO USB. 120
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 16/11/2023International Comparison of Recommended File Formats openpreservation.org/resources/me... 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 12/11/2023"Millennium Pancake" by dppig is licensed under CC BY 2.0. 010
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 09/11/2023How the Utaina project is preserving our audiovisual history youtu.be/eYWFys7u8mc?...youtu.beHow the Utaina project is preserving our audiovisual history 001
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 05/11/2023you can be ANYONE - even "Bertha" 010
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 02/11/2023World Digital Preservation Day www.dpconline.org/events/world...dpconline.orgWorld Digital Preservation Day - Digital Preservation Coalition 111
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 24/10/2023"toy soldier" by dppig is licensed under CC BY 2.0. 010
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 23/10/2023Utaina: Preserving the nation’s audiovisual heritage Utaina blog post for Wellington Heritage Festival wellingtonheritagefestival.co.nz/blog/the-uta... Utaina event page wellingtonheritagefestival.co.nz/event/utaina...wellingtonheritagefestival.co.nzThe Utaina Project: Navigating the Digitisation of our Nation’s Audiovisual HeritageThe Utaina Project is a nation-wide partnership between three prominent New Zealand institutions: Archives New Zealand, National Library of New Zealand, and Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. It is a once-in... 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 23/10/2023www.tomshardware.com/news/microso... 100
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 17/10/2023"pink flowers morning light" by dppig is licensed under CC BY 2.0. 020
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 17/10/2023One cannot resist an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo. Good times at Archives New Zealand. 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 16/10/2023"Ducklings" by www.thegoodlifefrance.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0. 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 14/10/2023"File:Mason snow11-18-2008.jpg" by THD3 is licensed under CC BY 3.0. 011
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 11/10/2023"Guinea Pigs" by picto:graphic is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. 011
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 10/10/2023@verslibre.bsky.social This is not me. This is not my cat. But it is darn cute. "Kitten" by _sikander is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. 121
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 22/09/2023Happy Hobbit Day from New Zealand - where it is celebrated as a national holiday! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit_... 100
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 21/09/2023"Belay that!" "Avast!" and other things I didn't say on International Talk Like a Pirate Day! 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 19/09/2023a shout out to the band Jawbreaker who are currently touring the midwest - go check 'em out! www.jawbreakerband.com/dates 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 19/09/2023@euanc.bsky.social This is almost as cool as Google Wave! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_... 110
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 18/09/2023Hey Blue Sky -- honk in you're in Champaign–Urbana learning about Digital Preservation at iPres this week! 000
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social · 15/09/202319th International Conference on Digital Preservation -- ipres2023.us -- Champaign–Urbana from September 19 through the 22 2023 071
