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The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched

[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

Just registered for the "Shaping the Archives of Tomorrow" event, Sept 1–2 in Vienna. If you’re there too, let’s grab a coffee and chat! Archives, IIIF, annotation, digital humanities... or anything else at the intersection of libraries, archives, museums, and tech.

📍 www.icar-us.eu/en/english-d...

#DPC Members👋🏼 We are starting a Databases Special Interest Group! Join our launch meeting on August 13th at 15:00 UTC 🚀

This DPC member-exclusive forum will tackle key challenges to preserving databases and is your online space to sharing solutions.

Join us […]

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Access to open data at the National Library of France using ARK variants An early adopter of ARKs, the BnF has developed practices for displaying persistent linked open data (LOD) using ARK suffixes for object variants.

Using ARK identifiers to simplify access to open data at the National Library of France arks.org/news/2025-07...

The ARK Alliance (arks.org) will convert its documentation practices to align with modern form ARKs, the most visible difference being removal of the slash ('/') at the end of "ark:/", a non-breaking change -- two ARKs that differ only in form are equivalent in perpetuity. arks.org/news/2025-07...

🌐💾 Preserve web history!
#WebArchiving tools like @webarchive's Wayback Machine, @archiveis_ today (Tor-friendly 🔗), & @ghostarchive_org (🎥 dynamic content) ensure digital footprints stay intact. 📂✨
#LinkPermanence #DigitalPreservation #Internet

web.archive.org
archive.today
ghostarchive.org

🚨 5 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!

The DPC is hiring two senior roles:
→ Head of Good Practice
→ Head of Workforce Development

With staff already based in five different countries, the DPC welcomes applications from exceptional candidates around the world!

Details & […]

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US data purges draw on a playbook used worldwide - Research Professional News Make Trump’s censorship a catalyst to protect research everywhere, say Louise Bezuidenhout and Hugh Shanahan

We are now experiencing 'permanent gaps in the global data corpus. In all these cases, coordinated actions could potentially have mitigated the scale of the data lost' www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Sharon McMeekin and Paul Wheatley are excited to announce the launch of their new training and consultancy firm, Preserve Together. Offering a range of services to help build your capacity and skills, we aim to support individuals and organizations in achieving their digital preservation goals [1/4]

📚 Join our #DPClinic on April 25th where John Gostick will discuss Cambridge University Libraries' approach to preservation infrastructure and worksflows!

Register at […]

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A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in GLAM Institutions A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in GLAM Institutions

Workshop: Web Archive Collections as Data #iipcwac25

glamlabs.io/checklist/

The slides for my #iipcWAC25 talk, "What You See No One Saw" are available at matkelly.com/presentation...

#webarchiving

Ben Els from Luxembourg web archive discussing archiving social media of gov officials. Get them to export their own data. Motivation is everything!! #iipcwac25

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...

#IIPCWAC25 Can we use AI + Web Archives to help departments retrieve their lost organisational memories?

NOPE.

There’s always something happening in the world of digital preservation! Stay up to date with the latest news, community updates, projects, and upcoming events from the OPF:
📰 News: openpreservation.org/news/
📅 Events: openpreservation.org/events/
#DigitalPreservation #OpenSource #JoinUs

Let's hear it for a collaborative community! #DPC Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) 3.0 is now available in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Japanese, and Turkish⁠⁠ - www.dpconline.org/news/ram-3-0... #digitalpreservation #digipres
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It’s #WebArchiveWednesday and Day 1 of #iipcWAC25 is about to begin! View the program and let us know what you’re looking forward to most:

👉 netpreserve.org/ga2025/progr...
👉 netpreserve.org/ga2025/works...

@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #webarchiving

👋 anyone know of articles/blogs and/or has personal experience with:
AI-bot scraper hinderung web archiving / web preservation

let me know!

#SafeguardingResearch #digipres

GitHub - rsimon/cozy-iiif: A developer-friendly collection of abstractions and utilities built on top of @iiif/presentation-3 and @iiif/parser. A developer-friendly collection of abstractions and utilities built on top of @iiif/presentation-3 and @iiif/parser. - rsimon/cozy-iiif

A while back, I started putting together my own collection of utils & helpers for working with IIIF resources in JavaScript/TypeScript more easily. I released it under MIT license–and finally got around to writing a proper Readme! 🎉 Hoping that other find this useful, too! github.com/rsimon/cozy-...

DPC "Defining the Designated Community" (2023) doi.org/10.7207/twgn... mentioned by @criticalsenses.bsky.social in her #BDCAM25 presentation in the context of "Do the donors and depositors of the digital content have expectations about who the content is being preserved for?" #DigitalPreservation

#BDCAM25 Another great presentation from @criticalsenses.bsky.social, this time about her "Future Audiences Decision Model", intended to help guide organisations in decision making, when selecting and preparing digital content for deposit into a memory institution

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Upcoming C2DH public exhibition
Community-driven #DigitalPreservation
* Sharing disk images
* Use of emulators
* Fan-made patches & engine recreations
* Preservation is often decentralised & grassroots
* Preservation vs Piracy

#BDCAM25 "Exploring #VideoGames CD-ROMs"
Curatorial challenges: concept & narrative flow, target audience, games accessibility, nostalgic value
Present games: emulation vs. old gaming console, gameplay relevance & contemporary significance
(with a nod to @cdrom.ca's work) #DigitalPreservation

Stickers on DPC tartan

Last batch of stickers on the @dpc_chat desk at #bdcam25

A history of the CD-ROM (CD-Hist) A research project at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology.

#BDCAM25 "A history of the CD-ROM", a research project at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology done by Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) #DigitalHumanities www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/rese...

Starting the last day of #BDCAM25 with several presentations about CD-ROMs "Born-Digital Collections, Archives, History and Memory of CD-ROMs"
"One of the only conferences where so many people are interested in a dead technology", as Valérie Schafer put it

LLTDM-X About the Project Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross Border (“LLTDM-X”) is a project supporting research and analysis to address law and policy issues faced by U.S. digital humanit…

#BDCAM25 Roundtable "Expanding Computational Research of #BornDigital Collections"
LLTDM-X (Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross Border) Project: preliminary guidance for #DigitalHumanities practitioners (text & data mining) in international research collaborations buildinglltdm.org/lltdmx/

#BDCAM25 A very important, but often forgotten point from Adrian Demleitner: "Preservation ( #DigitalPreservation ) is political"