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Brilliant new blog today on the #OPF website - ‘Monitoring Disappearing File Formats: Common Crawl’, originally in Dutch by Rein van ‘t Veer.

It’s the second of the #DutchDigitalHeritageNetwork 's English translations of the Preservation Watch and Preferred Formats program series #digitalpreservation. Read it here: https://openpreservation.org/blogs/monitoring-disappearing-file-formats-2/?q=1 @general

@general https://blog.vlt.sh/blog/the-massive-hole-in-the-npm-ecosystem

An interesting (and potentially massive) security flaw in the JavaScript ecosystem that concerns file manifest metadata, and the APIs that use them.

It is also discussed by the author in this podcast interview: https://changelog.com/jsparty/282

The first conversion format we have added is .enex for Evernote. We will be adding more file formats to convert your notes from Notion, Apple Notes, and other formats including folders of HTML files.

It looks like this is an enactment of the philosophy expressed in https://digipres.cafe/post/30

accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data

New blog post - #VeraPDF parse status as a proxy for #PDF rendering: experiments with the Synthetic PDF Testset:

https://www.bitsgalore.org/2023/06/29/verapdf-parse-status-as-a-proxy-for-rendering

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a semi-serious thread: how is digital preservation depicted in fictional movies or books?

I'll kick off with The Silo (2023): a dystopian serie set in the future where humanity resides in an enclave. In this society, both physical and digital cultural artifacts from the past are banned. But a 140 years old hard drive is found... https://digipres.club/@raffaele/110326856709648207

the first in the #opfhackathon beginner webinar series is tomorrow 🎉 🤠 please encourage those you think might be interested to register for 'getting started with github' here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN/_N8sUhb3oR0yQsEiEUGxgsg#/registration

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@general https://digipres.club/@euanc/110577420842101227

"On the 30th anniversary of PDF technology, we’re excited to announce the availability of the first development preview of a new veraPDF-powered application."

Via @[email protected] - this #DigitalPreservation policy and strategy resource is now part of the http://digipres.org/ GitHub repository! Hopefully this move helps keep it current and encourages collaboration. See also: https://github.com/digipres/policies

The Persistent Identifier Guide is a site run by the dutch digitla heritage network. It includes basic info on different PID forms (URN, ARK, DOI, Handle), best practices and a PID guide in form of a questionnaire

Another link aggregator folks watching digipres.cafe may be interested in is code4lib.net. Please check it out, and if you know any other instances in this space please comment or link to them below!