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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘

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Bluesky mostly for conference live musings. Main musings on Mastodon at digipres.club/@joshuatj There's also a brid.gy fed account here at @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy Banner picture: Kuala Lumpur (East), Malaysia

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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 15h
Hello #archives #digipres hive mind! I wonder if you can help? I'm looking for examples of Digital Asset Manager job descriptions. Does anyone have anything you can share with me please? Many thanks
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Beaver Forgot: Damn It!
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@ipres2026.bsky.social
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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tuning in to the 2nd #ipres2026 keynote by Emanuele Bellini examining the cyber-security exposure of digital cultural heritage. It's tough going. We need a Blue Shield fo the electronic battlefield! www.dpconline.org/blog/dp-disr...
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 22/09/2026
The first keynote speaker of #iPRES2026, Sibyl Schaefer, has upped the meme game to ask: if we're in this intersection of of crises while still having to work, where do we go from here? and how do we get there together?
Venn diagram showing us in between having to go to work and the apocalypse
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Helen Dafter @historyhelen123.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Question for #Archivists and #DigiPres. Is software a 'record'?
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
One more flight to Joint Technical Symposium 2026 #JTS2026
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Archives in the news V&A Museum acquires YouTube’s earliest video from 2005 | CNN share.google/anY7B1TTvlMD... #archives #digitalpreservation
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YouTube’s earliest video has been deemed museum-worthy | CNN
London’s V&A museum has added YouTube’s first video to its collection, displaying 2005’s “Me at the zoo” in one of its galleries.
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Archives (of the future?) in the news: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #Digitalpreservation #archives #data
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Stone, parchment or laser-written glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data
Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but glass storage developed by Microsoft could last millennia
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Paraphrasing Christobel Underwood of the Australian National University's lightning talk: How to prioritise audio visual material for preservation 1. Magnetic tape!! 2. Reacting to a disaster and the damage caused 3. Items of historical or cultural significance 4. User Requests #iPRES2025
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Charlie H @chmod111.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
spreadsheets are still the undisputed champion of digital preservation #digipres #ipres2025
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Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Sobering slide from Kari James about data loss disasters #ipres2025
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Euan Cochrane @euanc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
So great to hear about the use of #AusEaaSI / #EaaSI in Australia. Hearing how it is also really useful for raising awareness of digital preservation is validating. Reminds me of my post on Digital Patinas www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/th... #ipres2025
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The Emergence of “Digital Patinas” - Digital Preservation Coalition
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Euan Cochrane @euanc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"[I often find that after installing e.g. a version of flash for one artifact, I just search for it for use with other artifacts]" Paraphrased quote from Bryony Cavallaro @ the State Library of New South Wales (I think) #ipres2025 - So great to here the benefits of #EasSI being realised #AusEaaSI
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Euan Cochrane @euanc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
More gratification - so great to hear of people using @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social for digital preservation signature metadata. I just heard mention of using the Wikidata signature file in Siegfried! #ipres2025
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#DigiPres #FileFormatRisk
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#iPRES2025 How many formats are there? @anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question. Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#ipres2025 Ooph, this hit home. Rosslyn Metz from Emory university's keynote gives a lot of food for thought. Is openness always good? Should we reconsider our openness in a world focused on exploitation?
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thank you Mick Crouch, Master of Ceremony extraordinaire for #iPRES2025 Quick Fire 1. @dppig.bsky.social
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
As a side point of his keynote, Simon explained that the licencing of .tv domain is a good revenue generator for Tuvalu. Wiki tells me it was 8.4% of Tuvaluan government revenue in 2019!
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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Great turnout for the “Hands on with @iiif.bsky.social: A Pillar in Digital Preservation” at the @ipres2025.bsky.social conference in Wellington, NZ, 17 people from multiple institutions and countries #iPRES2025 /
 “Hands on with @iiif.bsky.social: A Pillar in Digital Preservation” at the @ipres2025.bsky.social conference in Wellington, NZ
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Helen Dafter @historyhelen123.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Preparing to co-host the first #iPresRadio Europe/Africa session later today. #iPres2025 attendees, were there any stand outs from Day 1 you would like to share?
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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
😍 We love to see it!
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
#digipres in 3. 1. I am attending #iPRES2025 virtually. Sad to miss the buzz of in person attendance and visit NZ, but I am excited to help host some of the Europe/Africa iPRES Radio broadcasts. To listen in, follow the link: www.dpconline.org/events/event...
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iPRES Radio 2025 - Digital Preservation Coalition
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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We're always amazed by the creativity and talent of the iPRES community! 😍 One of our clever attendees, Ima Oduok, has created cross stitch patterns from the #iPRES2025 logo! 🪡 You can download the patterns here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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iPRES 2025 logo cross stitch patterns - Google Drive
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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
👋 #iPRES2025 kicks off next week, and we are so excited to welcome everyone to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington and online! Learn about how tikanga (customs) and kawa (protocols) of Te Ao Māori (the Māori world view) are woven through this year's conference. www.ipres2025.nz/post/tikanga...
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Tikanga at iPRES 2025
Learn about how tikanga (customs) and kawa (protocols) of Te Ao Māori (the Māori world view) are woven through this year's iPRES conference.
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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
We’re excited too! And yes the hashtag is #ipres2025 😀
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
#iPRES2025
See you online at iPRES. Details of iPRES 2025 with the online logo of two birds
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No Time to Wait @nttw.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
And we conclude a great day with a great tour, a behind-the-scenes highlighting the @IFI_Dub Irish Film Archive's collections and preservation practices at #nttw9
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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Learn about the #iPRES2025 Regional Impact Committee, and check out some of the conference sessions related to digital preservation knowledge and practice across Aotearoa, Australia, and the Pacific. www.ipres2025.nz/post/the-reg...
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The Regional Impact Committee Recommends…
Learn more about the work of the Regional Impact Committee, and iPRES sessions specific to digital preservation in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific.
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No Time to Wait @nttw.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Workshop day is off @NLIreland with “Extracting file metadata using Python, MediaInfo and other open-source tools” by Joanna White! #nttw9
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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Great article by the BBC featuring one of our fabulous #ipres2025 presenters! 🙌 www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
If you would like your own: digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...
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Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But…
I’ve been truly overwhelmed by the interest in my Digital Preservation knitting patterns — thank you to everyone who has reached out…
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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a cartoon of spongebob wearing a red outfit and a hat
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob wearing a red outfit and a hat
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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We know that many of you will be starting your journey to Wellington soon, so we’ve included a bunch of travel tips in the #iPRES2025 newsletter, as well as info about the conference app, tips for presenters, how to sign up for iPRES Radio, and more! Have a read at www.ipres2025.nz/post/ipres-2...
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iPRES 2025 October Newsletter
Less than one month to iPRES 2025! Our October newsletter has travel tips and other useful information ahead of your journey to Wellington!
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 06/10/2025
Didn’t think we’d see incompetence at this scale. The backup of the on-prem data center for the Korean government was in the same location as the primary one. Any basically qualified tech professional knows that this is no resilient backup: and now all data is lost…
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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The wait is over! The #iPRES2025 Programme is finally here! 🎉 This year features a dynamic schedule with 7 parallel tracks: 3 hybrid, 3 in person, and 1 virtual. View the high-level programme as a PDF, or check out the programme spreadsheet for session times and details. www.ipres2025.nz/programme
Kiwi - Stewart Island - Southland, New Zealand - Credit Great South (7)
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Final #LIANZA2025 keynote. Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Final #LIANZA2025 keynote. Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
From Wikisource to public library - pipeline from scans to lendable books. Mike Dickison, Wikipedian @adzebill.bsky.social #LIANZA2025 #Wikisource
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Countering misinformation & disinformation. Mandy Henk, Dark Times Academy. Update 2025: Things are not great and the problem is worsening. #LIANZA2025 #misinformation #disinformation
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A trinity of freedoms at risk. Mod: Marlies Zyp-van der Laan Panelists 1. Louise LaHatte, LIANZA Standing Committee on Freedom of Information 2. Mandy Hager, Author 3. Peter Dowling, Oratia Media #LIANZA2025 #FreedomofInformation #FreedomofExpression #FreedomtoPublish #FreedomtoRead #Censorship
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Verifying sources: were whales keeping Wellingtonians awake in the 1800s? - Kim McClintock, Librarian, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Tentative conclusion: Tasmania/Australia ad the possible origin of the story. Changed to Wellington later. See blog post for full story. #LIANZA2025
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"By 2035, all bets are off. The jobs most disrupted will be the highest paid and skilled." - Melissa Clark-Reynolds. Keynote: Turning chaos into opportunities. Gen Z might be doing jobs that we cannot even imagine. Get a good general education. Love the arts. #LIANZA2025 #AI #Futurist
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A fascinating talk yesterday at #LIANZA2025 by Amy Watling on Turnbull's oral history collections, 95% restricted—"my voice is on this little cassette, and there it will stay"—and how one can nevertheless organise remote access in a virtual reading room.
Amy, with greying hair and splendid glasses, speaking at the LIANZA podium.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
For the LIANZA conference next week I only have ten minutes to talk about @wikisource.bsky.social so I make a little zine—or perhaps a wikitract—to hand out.
Several pocket-sized “what is Wikisource?” zines which look a bit like Chick tracts all trimmed, folded, and stapled by hand.
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Andy Fenton @fentnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Staggering statistic reported by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru ... Not one of the 78 kiwi Local Government Councils have addressed Māori Data Governance or Sovereignty #TooHardBasket #LIANZA2025
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Andy Fenton @fentnz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Aotearoa New Zealand needs to grow a #NationOfReaders & more so than ever in the digital age ... We also get great value om having a Reading Ambassador & Kate De Goldi is an excellent Te Awhi Rito #LIANZA2025
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Keynote: Stronger together: Connected national libraries - Rachel Esson, National Librarian NZ, and Dr Marie-Louise Ayres, Director-General National Libraries of Australia #LIANZA2025
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Libraries leading the AI future: empowering learning and AI Literacy. Sadia Afroze, PhD student at VuW. Interviewed librarians. Taught ChatGPT to students to generate keywords for further database searches. #LIANZA2025 #AI #UniversityLibrarians
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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Kēmu: Building a board game collection - Grisham Langton, Wellington City Libraries. Very successful. Launch with no advertising. 3 days on the shelves, lots of reserves means it's also in circulation. #LIANZA2025 #library #notjustbooks #boardgames
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