Jenny Mitcham

Really pleased to have been able to contribute to this edited volume and talk about my 'career in ruins'! Thanks @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social for all your efforts!

A reminder that our 'RAM Jam' events are running next week for DPC members to share experiences of using our Rapid Assessment Model to measure and track their digital preservation progress. Do sign up if you are interested: www.dpconline.org/events/event...

'RAM Jam' provides an annual opportunity for DPC Members to share their experiences of using our Rapid Assessment Model to measure digital preservation maturity. Full list of presentations is now available on the events page - do sign up if you are interested: www.dpconline.org/events/event...

Remembering James King of the Artists Rifles. My great great great uncle who was an organist in a church before signing up for WW1. Killed in action in 1917 aged 22, his body was never recovered but he is commemorated at Tyne Cot memorial in Belgium.

Save the date for our annual 'RAM Jam' session - a maturity modelling workshop where DPC Members share their experiences of using our Rapid Assessment Model: www.dpconline.org/events/event...
And do get in touch if you would be interested in sharing your own case study...

This looks very interesting - love the focus on risk management and sustainability - definitely need to take a closer look!

🚨BREAKING NEWS On #WDPD2025, the #DPC has released a new version of the Global #BitList of Endangered Digital Materials: a powerful call to action from the global #digipres community.

The Bit List identifies the digital materials most at risk of being lost […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

It is World Digital Preservation Day and I've come to work in the office for a change of scene. Here is a photo of the original version of the 'Happy World Digital Preservation Day' drawing which we have in our office here in York! #WDPD2025

Celebrating New Endings: Library & University Collections Publishes Updated Digital Preservation Policy Excited to learn a defunct web forum for your favourite band as a teenager still exists in the Wayback Machine? Relieved to hear that a teaching resource will be supported even though the original …

My first ever @bsky.app post to celebrate #WDPD2025 🥳 I'm thrilled to share @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social has published an updated Digital Preservation Policy to invite closer collaboration across the University to better preserve our bits! We can't do it alone 🤝 Read more on the blog 👉 edin.ac/47ZXWkH

#WDPD2025 - Hello world, and happy World Digital Preservation Day! Let's take care of our shared cultural heritage, knowledge, and the planet too!

Getting ready for a Digipres North's #wdpd #wdpd2025 special meeting. I love getting to hear what the community is up to, and listening to presentations and demos from colleagues around the region. Today we're getting to see how Explore York are introducing TeraCopy to their workflow.

🎉 It’s World Digital Preservation Day! 🎉Watch a brand new #WDPD2025 vlog and hear directly from the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick on why they preserve their digital records👉🏼 👀 buff.ly/jOW1WZq

#WhyPreserve #LetsCelebrate #digitalpreservation #DigitalPreservationCoalitio

Nice to see our old friend the digipres chicken!🐔

Oh yes! This will be fun!

Wednesday's #iPRESradio shared some of the contestants at the @ipres2025.bsky.social Digital Preservation bake-off & we went down a rabbit hole of 90s web design thanks to @protoweb.org.web.brid.gy

Speaking of preserving the web... have you heard about our @dpasshconf2026.bsky.social next year?

Excellent #ipres2025 paper from @squaredsong.bsky.social on trust without certification, with a call for a more flexible framework for trust and certification in digital preservation. Interesting discussion on whether certification is the best way of gaining the trust of users.

Yes! Looking forward to seeing where this leads!

Ah yes, I was thinking of you! Interesting observation around the change of mindset to focus on what the users of the system want/need rather than just what they want/need.

Also a great explanation from Sonia in the Q&A on why they don't validate the files that come in - whether a file is valid or not is not a part of their acceptance criteria.

Following on the theme of the messiness or digital records a great presentation from Sonia Ranade and Kirsten Arnold on the user-focused work they have been doing at The National Archives UK on re-envisaging their digital records transfer process #ipres2025

On my 2nd coffee of the morning while watching back some of the #ipres2025 sessions from Tuesday. Currently watching @dannynoonan1962.bsky.social on the messiness of digital preservation workflow development. Lots to relate to here!

Definitely! I think more to come as this research continues too!

#iPRES2025
How many formats are there?
@anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question.

Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)

Great talk from @archivistkelsey.bsky.social on accessibility of born digital collections. She discusses the implicit, systemic, and unconscious biases built into hardware and software which can negatively impact users, and encourages us to prioritise the humanity of workers and users #ipres2025

What does responsible openness look like in a world focused on exploitation? How do we balance the impulse to share with the obligation to protect?

This is turning into another really thought provoking keynote "Is openness good?" asks Rosalyn Metz at #ipres2025

Really interested in the Fedora story shared by Rosalyn Metz at #iPRES2025. I knew bits of it (the challenge of migrating from version 3 to 4) but haven't heard it in full before. Lots of useful lessons to learn from this around the importance of community over technology.

I've been to 1.5 iPRES radio sessions today and it has been great (as a virtual attendee in the UK) to have an opportunity to connect and chat with others about iPRES. Also I had an opportunity to talk about mine and @bryonyhooper.bsky.social's poster www.dpconline.org/events/event... #ipres2025

Just attended a really fun virtual Birds of a Feather session at #ipres2025 with Sean Macmillan on digital preservation games. He says "Anyone can build a game". I've left feeling enthused and keen to give it a go! Not sure when I'm going to fit that in exactly...perhaps WDPD next year!

Nice to see DPC toolkits on there too! :-)

Very helpful to have a link to where we can see the posters - thanks Joshua. Tricky to find materials we can catch up on on this side of the world! I should have done what you did last year and stay up all night to watch live! Not sure I would manage that though!