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Digital Preservation Coalition @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 2h

🎉 JPEG 2000 turns 25!

To celebrate, the #dpc is hosting a free online event on 19 Nov 2025 exploring how this standard has shaped digitization and digital preservation over the past quarter century.

Have YOU used JPEG 2000 in your work? We’d love to hear your […]

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David Underdown @davidunderdown.bsky.social · 2h

#DigiPres the Digital Archiving Department at The National Archives (UK) is currently looking for a Digtial Archivist (Transfer) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... and 2 Data Engineers www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi.... ce.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

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Archaeology Data Service @ads-update.bsky.social · 6h

⭐ The ADS Data Catalogue is Live!⭐

Explore hundreds of thousands of archaeological resources including over 100,000 reports and 5,000 archive collections.

👉To find out more and start exploring visit buff.ly/BMulYqQ

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Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social · 1d

🔔🔔JOB KLAXON🔔🔔🔔
Come and join the team at NMS - we're looking for a new Head of Collections Services. It's a brilliant role and a great team.

Details
Salary - £70.692-80,152
Hours - FT 35 Hours per week
Deadline - Nov 9th, 2025

careers.nms.ac.uk/job/780754

Head of Collections Services

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 2d

Come and work with us! We have a two-year, half-time postdoctoral research associate position working on the @storymachine-ht.bsky.social project www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... If you’re interested in #DigitalHumanities and/or folklore, we’d love to hear from you. Closing date 27 October.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine:London Senate House - Hybrid

The School of Advanced Study (SAS) comprises eight internationally renowned research institutes as well as centres in Digital Humanities and Public Engagement. It has four nationally and internationally recognised specialist research libraries. An important component of the humanities national infrastructure and part of the University of London, this is a really exciting time to join the School of Advanced Study as we are at the start of a new strategic plan.

www.jobs.london.ac.uk

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 2d

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Petrus Crinitus @petruscrinitus.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the AI version:

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Jenny Mitcham @jennymitcham.bsky.social · 4d

Great publicity for #digipres work...and always nice to see Leontien's floppy disk jumpers too! www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 4d

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week, welcome to Bluesky @dorothywaugh.bsky.social - Head of Workforce Development at the DPC for all your training and skills needs.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 5d

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 11d

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.

#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

I HATE COLLINGWOOD Wolfenstein 3D mod on floppy disk. This version doesn't work. :(

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netpreserve.bsky.social @netpreserve.bsky.social · 6d

‼️ ATTENTION ‼️

⏰ Proposals for #iipcWAC26, "Sustainable #WebArchiving," in Brussels are due in 1 WEEK (15 OCT): netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP

First-time submitters encouraged! Need inspiration?
www.youtube.com/@iipc8855/fe...

#WebArchives #WebArchiveWednesday #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities

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Library Juice Academy @libjuiceacademy.bsky.social · 6d

Y'all!

Our friends at @dpoe-n.bsky.social have funding for #digitalPreservation training and education!

Learn more here:
www.dpoe.network/professional...

#libraries #culturalHeritage

Professional Development Funding – Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network

www.dpoe.network

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 6d

Woohoo! Welcome ACMI! One of the coolest venues in the whole of #digitalpreservation #digipres

Angela Puggioni @angelafromdpc.bsky.social · 7d

Exciting news!! ACMI, Australia’s national museum of screen culture, has joined the #DPC as its latest Associate Member 🎉 A warm welcome to the Coalition 🤗 Read all about it - and how you can join too - here: buff.ly/JrKic8K

William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 6d

Logan's Run Prequel?

William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 8d

Paging #digitalpreservation and #databases. #digipres

Angela Puggioni @angelafromdpc.bsky.social · 8d

👋🏾 #DPC members! You are invited to join our next Databases Special Interest Group meeting on Tuesday 14 October, 10:00-11:00 UTC. Read more and sign up here: buff.ly/FOjAO2d

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 9d

More #digipres #digitalpreservation training resources from colleagues in Illinois. What's not to like. #dpc

Karyn @archivesnkaryn.bsky.social · 16d

If you are looking for easy to understand digital preservation training resources then look no further than our next #DPClinic. The resources produced by this project are second to none and of particular relevance to community groups.
www.dpconline.org/events/event...

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 11d

Amen.

William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 11d

Can I add something here, not cheery. My fear is that this is an imminent knowledge and memory crisis unlike others because of the deep technological dependencies adjacent to the bubble. We need to build and shelter sustainable digital infrastructure.

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Lisa Griffith @lisagriffith.bsky.social · 11d

@dri.ie are hosting a virtual coffee morning Wed 8 Oct at 10.00am all about @ipres2025.bsky.social This is a great chance to hear people from the Irish DigiPres community discuss highlights from previous years and what they're looking forward to at this year's conference dri.ie/events/dri-c...

DRI iPRES 2025 Coffee Morning- 8th October 2025 - Digital Repository of Ireland

The Digital Repository of Ireland is hosting a virtual coffee morning on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 10.00am for half an hour. You are warmly invited to join DRI Staff and colleagues from member org...

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 12d

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week the big news was not Taylor Swift's new album, but that @jennymitcham.bsky.social has set up an account on Blue Sky. Highly recommend. What's on your desk today Jen? #digipres

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 12d

It's just awful Lorna. Sending much love and sharing your sadness.

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 13d

Come and work with a great team!

Paula Martinez Lavanchy @paulamartinezl.bsky.social · 13d

📢 We're hiring! Join TU Delft Library as a Trainer in Research Data Management & Digital Skills. 2 temp positions (until 31 Dec 2026) in a diverse, international team.
📅 Apply by 22 Oct
🔗 Info: careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Tr...

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 13d

Great to spend timewith @ads-update.bsky.social management committee today.
Such an impressive team focused, hard working and constantly innovating. #digipres #digitalpreservation

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 14d

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 14d

End of an era at today's handover meeting for @roxponinja.bsky.social outgoing chair of the #dpc Good Practice Sub-Committee. #Digitalpreservation

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