Tom J. Smyth
@smythbound.bsky.social
Manager, Web and Social Media Preservation Program and the Government of Canada Web Archive, Library and Archives Canada. Posts Mine. #webarchiving | #digitalpreservation | #digipres | #webarchives | #webarchivewednesday | #DigitalHumanities
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A Digital Dark Age? The People Rescuing Forgotten Knowledge Trapped on Old Floppy Disks (via BBC) https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks #digipres #digitalpreservation #libraries
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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October 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A Digital Dark Age? The People Rescuing Forgotten Knowledge Trapped on Old Floppy Disks (via BBC) https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks #digipres #digitalpreservation #libraries
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TIP: Fact finders always check the original story.
Web archives preserve today’s headlines and information for future reference: webarchiveweb.bac-lac.canada.ca
#ChooseCanada🍁
Web archives preserve today’s headlines and information for future reference: webarchiveweb.bac-lac.canada.ca
#ChooseCanada🍁
October 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
TIP: Fact finders always check the original story.
Web archives preserve today’s headlines and information for future reference: webarchiveweb.bac-lac.canada.ca
#ChooseCanada🍁
Web archives preserve today’s headlines and information for future reference: webarchiveweb.bac-lac.canada.ca
#ChooseCanada🍁
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Can we preserve democracy without preserving the web?
Join Brewster Kahle & Marleen Stikker at KB The Hague on 17 Sept.
🎟 Info: www.internetarchive.eu?p=1751
#WebArchiving #DigitalSovereignty
Join Brewster Kahle & Marleen Stikker at KB The Hague on 17 Sept.
🎟 Info: www.internetarchive.eu?p=1751
#WebArchiving #DigitalSovereignty
Preserving Digital Sovereignty: Marleen Stikker & Brewster Kahle at the KB in The Hague on 17 September - Internet Archive Europe
On Wednesday 17 September, the KB – National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague will host a timely event featuring Marleen Stikker, internet pioneer and founder of Waag Futurelab, and Brewster Ka...
www.internetarchive.eu
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Can we preserve democracy without preserving the web?
Join Brewster Kahle & Marleen Stikker at KB The Hague on 17 Sept.
🎟 Info: www.internetarchive.eu?p=1751
#WebArchiving #DigitalSovereignty
Join Brewster Kahle & Marleen Stikker at KB The Hague on 17 Sept.
🎟 Info: www.internetarchive.eu?p=1751
#WebArchiving #DigitalSovereignty
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JJ and I did a thing. "Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future" by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs. Info/Download/PoD: freegovinfo.info/pgi
#digitalpreservation #govinfo #FDLP
#digitalpreservation #govinfo #FDLP
Preserving Government Information - Free Government Information (FGI)
Preserving Government Information Past, Present, and Future by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs The book examines how preservation practices of the past affect the preservation of digitally publish...
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May 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
JJ and I did a thing. "Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future" by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs. Info/Download/PoD: freegovinfo.info/pgi
#digitalpreservation #govinfo #FDLP
#digitalpreservation #govinfo #FDLP
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Librarians are among the last bastions of true sanity in the democratic society of the United States of America. 📚
#Writingcommunity #Kidlit #Libraries #Booksky #Librarians
#Writingcommunity #Kidlit #Libraries #Booksky #Librarians
May 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Librarians are among the last bastions of true sanity in the democratic society of the United States of America. 📚
#Writingcommunity #Kidlit #Libraries #Booksky #Librarians
#Writingcommunity #Kidlit #Libraries #Booksky #Librarians
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#Archivists, #librarians, and #technologists are working behind the scenes to save today’s #digitalculture. What parts of the internet do you think are worth saving for the future? Join the conversation on May 28th. bit.ly/3Rp8eBY
In Honour of Canadian Web Preservation
A Panel Discussion on Preserving the Web’s Memory. Join us for a conversation with Ian Milligan & Brewster Kahle, moderated by Takara Small
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April 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#Archivists, #librarians, and #technologists are working behind the scenes to save today’s #digitalculture. What parts of the internet do you think are worth saving for the future? Join the conversation on May 28th. bit.ly/3Rp8eBY
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This #WebArchiveWednesday, we are thrilled to announce that #iipcGA26 and #iipcWAC26 will be hosted by @kbrbe.bsky.social, the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels!
#webarchives | #webarchiving | #digitalpreservation
#webarchives | #webarchiving | #digitalpreservation
April 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This #WebArchiveWednesday, we are thrilled to announce that #iipcGA26 and #iipcWAC26 will be hosted by @kbrbe.bsky.social, the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels!
#webarchives | #webarchiving | #digitalpreservation
#webarchives | #webarchiving | #digitalpreservation
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László Tóth discusses his tool, warc-safe, at #iipcWAC25 for scanning WARC files for NSFW content: It takes a WARC, extracts recs, scans w/ ClamAV, and checks for NSFW content like nudity and pornographic content. It uses an AI that scans each image file. #webarchiving
github.com/natliblux/wa...
github.com/natliblux/wa...
April 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
László Tóth discusses his tool, warc-safe, at #iipcWAC25 for scanning WARC files for NSFW content: It takes a WARC, extracts recs, scans w/ ClamAV, and checks for NSFW content like nudity and pornographic content. It uses an AI that scans each image file. #webarchiving
github.com/natliblux/wa...
github.com/natliblux/wa...
From the rare books exhibit on the ground floor, a fabulous 11th century Latin codex (on parchment) of the Psalms of David. Considered the oldest book in Norway! Inscribed on the 13th century wooden back cover: "Atakvikne church owns me". Come see the collection! #iipcwac2025 / #iipcwac25
April 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
From the rare books exhibit on the ground floor, a fabulous 11th century Latin codex (on parchment) of the Psalms of David. Considered the oldest book in Norway! Inscribed on the 13th century wooden back cover: "Atakvikne church owns me". Come see the collection! #iipcwac2025 / #iipcwac25
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The day before the 2025 General Assembly saw IIPC’s Steering Committee (netpreserve.org/about-us/lea...) hard at work in Slottsbiblioteket at the National Library of Norway, including members tuning in from across the world via Zoom!
@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #iipcGA25 | #iipcWAC25
@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #iipcGA25 | #iipcWAC25
April 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The day before the 2025 General Assembly saw IIPC’s Steering Committee (netpreserve.org/about-us/lea...) hard at work in Slottsbiblioteket at the National Library of Norway, including members tuning in from across the world via Zoom!
@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #iipcGA25 | #iipcWAC25
@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #iipcGA25 | #iipcWAC25
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In Javier de la Rosa's keynote, he discusses the extended and base corpus used as sources for testing AI models on different scenarios, adding emphasis for less common human languages to prevent oversampling from those data that are more commonly available. #iipcWAC2025
April 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
In Javier de la Rosa's keynote, he discusses the extended and base corpus used as sources for testing AI models on different scenarios, adding emphasis for less common human languages to prevent oversampling from those data that are more commonly available. #iipcWAC2025
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Gil Hoggarth continues on at the #iipcWAC25 "Tools Under Construction" describing the mitigation plan he executed after the UK Web Archive's cyberattack. "We developed our solutions separately from the dev pattern and resources from the British Library" #webarchiving
April 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Gil Hoggarth continues on at the #iipcWAC25 "Tools Under Construction" describing the mitigation plan he executed after the UK Web Archive's cyberattack. "We developed our solutions separately from the dev pattern and resources from the British Library" #webarchiving
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Learn more about the National Library of Norway, one of the founding members of the IIPC and the host of this year’s General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference, and their history of #webarchiving here: netpreserve.org/ga2025/web-a...
@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #iipcGA25 | #iipcWAC25
@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #iipcGA25 | #iipcWAC25
Web Archiving in Norway - IIPC
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April 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Learn more about the National Library of Norway, one of the founding members of the IIPC and the host of this year’s General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference, and their history of #webarchiving here: netpreserve.org/ga2025/web-a...
@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #iipcGA25 | #iipcWAC25
@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #iipcGA25 | #iipcWAC25
#iipcwac2025 in Oslo is about a week away! Come visit us at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference session #6 Curating Social Media! (Thurs 10th @ 11:45) #webarchiving #digitalpreservation netpreserve.bsky.social
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March 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
#iipcwac2025 in Oslo is about a week away! Come visit us at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference session #6 Curating Social Media! (Thurs 10th @ 11:45) #webarchiving #digitalpreservation netpreserve.bsky.social
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In 19 days, we'll meet in Oslo for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference! Warming up with this 2001 version of the Nordic Web Archive homepage.
#iipcwac2025
#webarchiving
@netpreserve.bsky.social
(Thanks to @webrecorder.net for great emulation tools and @archive.org for providing access to the past)
#iipcwac2025
#webarchiving
@netpreserve.bsky.social
(Thanks to @webrecorder.net for great emulation tools and @archive.org for providing access to the past)
March 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
In 19 days, we'll meet in Oslo for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference! Warming up with this 2001 version of the Nordic Web Archive homepage.
#iipcwac2025
#webarchiving
@netpreserve.bsky.social
(Thanks to @webrecorder.net for great emulation tools and @archive.org for providing access to the past)
#iipcwac2025
#webarchiving
@netpreserve.bsky.social
(Thanks to @webrecorder.net for great emulation tools and @archive.org for providing access to the past)
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November 15, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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We're in the process of commissioning a report on Artificial Intelligence and #digitalpreservation and I so want it to be titled "Should AI stay or should AI go?"
November 18, 2024 at 6:41 PM
We're in the process of commissioning a report on Artificial Intelligence and #digitalpreservation and I so want it to be titled "Should AI stay or should AI go?"