Preservation Initiatives - Canadian Association of Research Libraries

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The Vintage Technology Digital Archive

Archiving web sites

I recently took a deep dive into web site archival for friends who were worried about losing co [...]

Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives

Over the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been ‘put it in the cloud.’ Many of us use cloud…

ArchiveBox - Open-source self-hosted web archiving

Preserve websites, media, bookmarks, feeds, source code, evidence, and research material in durable files you control.

Web Archiving: Playback Tools - Thomas Preece

Web Archiving: Playback Tools - Below I've listed some of the tools I found to playback web archives. The two most popular tools that I found were OpenWayback and PyWb. Of the tests I

Archivist - Storage That Can't Be Stopped

Archivist is a decentralized durable storage network. Data is encrypted, erasure-coded, and dispersed across independent operators. Verified by zero-knowledge proofs. Sovereign storage that survives censorship, provider failure, and time.

DigitaltMuseum

DigitaltMuseum is a common database for Norwegian and Swedish museums and collections. It provides access to more than four million photographs, objects, works of art and buildings.

Universal Version Control

Building tools to help people explore alternatives, keep track of history, and collaborate better, across all kinds of media.

Home Page - Software Heritage

preserves software source code for present and future generations

Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements

Abstract Data‐ and code‐archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous work. Despite progress in implementing data‐ and code‐archiving policies in journals publishing ecology and evolution research, issues remain. To be more useful to future researchers, archived data and code must not only be archived but also meet good practice standards. We collected data from 1861 papers published between 2017 and 2024 in the seven British Ecological Society (BES) journals, during a hackathon event. We systematically checked associated data and/or code, metadata, help files and annotations to assess archiving practices. We determined if and where data and code files were archived, whether they could be located, downloaded and opened, and whether they had associated READMEs, digital object identifiers (DOI) and licences. We also recorded the file extensions used to save data/code files, and which programming languages code was written in. 93% of the 1861 papers we examined used data and ~90% used code. While 97% of the 1735 papers that used data also archived it, only 35% of the 1670 papers that used code also archived code. Over 85% of archived data and code could be located, downloaded and opened. Reusability, however, was more limited; around a third of papers did not have a README or similar to explain their data/code files, and the quality of READMEs varied substantially. We recommend that researchers archive their code and that archived code be explicitly mentioned in the Data (or Code) Availability statement. We also encourage researchers to provide more accessible and informative READMEs for data and code. To help achieve these recommendations, we advocate that journals employ Data/Code editors to review data and code quality, research institutions deliver more training in open science practices, and funding bodies set clear expectations on open data and code practices.

The Sounds Resource

Archiving and preserving video game media since 2003!

Universal Music Group: Decades of Masters Lost

Last year, I wrote an article detailing how record companies have a checkered past when it comes to properly archiving their master recordings. Among some of the revelations noted (thanks to a bril…