Tags » digital preservation
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Flickr Foundation at iPres 2024
In September, I went to Belgium for a digital preservation conference. I wrote about what I learnt and what I saw for the Flickr.org blog.
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Preserving pixels in Paris
I went to France for a conference about archiving the web, and I came back with thoughts and photos.
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TIL: Open a Safari webarchive from Twitter/X without being redirected
Disabling JavaScript when you open the webarchive file will prevent you from redirecting you to twitter.com.
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TIL: What’s inside a Safari webarchive?
The inside of a
.webarchive
file is a binary property list with the complete responses and some request metadata. -
Going through my old school papers
Digitising and pruning my boxes of paper from school. In which I have nostalgia, sadness, and the sense that everything old is new again.
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How moving to the cloud took Wellcome’s digital collections to new heights
Building our own platform allowed us to make decisions based on what’s best for the collections, and not the limitations of our digital infrastructure.
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Saving your alt text from Twitter
Twitter’s archives don’t include the alt text you wrote on images, but you can save a copy with their API.
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Replicating Wellcome Collection’s digital archive to Azure Blob Storage
How and why we keep copies of Wellcome’s digital collections in multiple cloud storage providers.
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Archive monocultures considered harmful
We are better off when the same topic is represented in multiple, different archives.
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Storing multiple, human-readable versions of BagIt bags
How we use the fetch.txt file in a bag to track multiple copies of an object in our digital archive.
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How I scan and organise my paperwork
My procedure for scanning paper, and organising the scanned PDFs with keyword tagging.
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Digital preservation at Wellcome Collection
Slides from a presentation about our processes, practices, and tools.