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To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands

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Re: To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands

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Post by shitlord »

sinkasapa wrote: post #7
shitlord wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Archive.org can and does accept takedown requests, even if the requester wants to avoid public scrutiny. If you're writing about a contentious topic and want to preserve your links (tweets or whatever), there are better options.

What are some of those options?

Not all of these are 1:1 replacements but here are a few options: archive.is/archive.today, ghost archive, save a webpage as html with assets, and taking a screenshot

Re: To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands

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Post by whartung »

My understanding is that some photographers are archiving their digital pictures by basically printing them using the 4 color process, which gives them the 4 "negatives" ("postives?" or whatever they're called) for each color (CMYK I guess).

Those sheets are archival quality and should last for quite sometime, given a proper storage environment.

They can always use those later to have them scanned back in should they lose their master digital files.

Re: To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands

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Post by ghaff »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #8

I fully support the efforts. but are there not legal problems with this? (No I dont thik legal issues should prevent this) If I worked for CorporateMediaNews as a columnist and reporter for 10 years and they decide ot remove all of it. Does not CMN own the work and can (unfortunately) dispose of it if they so wish? I would not have any rights for the work? Thinking about my own career. I have written a hell of a lot…

Random old source code is probably pretty hard to do something useful with. But, honestly, random old work product is pretty hard for just about anyone to do something useful with. And even something self-contained (like writing), most of the the stuff I wrote 10 or 20 years ago is pretty uninteresting even if a few things have some historical interest.

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Post by 8bitsrule »

Too bad there's not something like DOI or ARK [0] available for anyone to use to give documents a searchable, permanent ID so that a location can be maintained. IME, the half-life of many URLs (5-10 years?) makes them unreliable. I recently was unable to find (by URL) an entire historical collection at a major southern US university until I discovered that it had been moved to a new server.

[0] https://arks.org/about/

Re: To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands

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Post by tamimio »

Good thing I’m a hoarder. If I like something, I archive it and back it up locally. For example, a couple of days ago, I needed some digital assets for an Adobe program that I had downloaded a few months ago because I liked them and thought I might need them in the future. When I went back to the company page a couple days ago, everything had vanished! I'm glad I had downloaded them before and checked my backup to retrieve them.

Re: To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands

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Post by tamimio »

sinkasapa wrote: post #7
shitlord wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Archive.org can and does accept takedown requests, even if the requester wants to avoid public scrutiny. If you're writing about a contentious topic and want to preserve your links (tweets or whatever), there are better options.

What are some of those options?

There’s an addon called single file, you can use it to save the whole page with assets (except videos)

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

Re: To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands

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Post by darby_nine »

tamimio wrote: post #17

Good thing I’m a hoarder. If I like something, I archive it and back it up locally. For example, a couple of days ago, I needed some digital assets for an Adobe program that I had downloaded a few months ago because I liked them and thought I might need them in the future. When I went back to the company page a couple days ago, everything had vanished! I'm glad I had downloaded them before and checked my backup to re…

Do you engage in any kind of physical archiving? I'm not going so far as to say it's superior to digital archiving but it does simplify maintenance of the assets in the event that you're incapable of it.

Re: To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands

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Post by tamimio »

darby_nine wrote: post #19
tamimio wrote: post #17

Good thing I’m a hoarder. If I like something, I archive it and back it up locally. For example, a couple of days ago, I needed some digital assets for an Adobe program that I had downloaded a few months ago because I liked them and thought I might need them in the future. When I went back to the company page a couple days ago, everything had vanished! I'm glad I had downloaded them before and checked my backup to re…

Do you engage in any kind of physical archiving? I'm not going so far as to say it's superior to digital archiving but it does simplify maintenance of the assets in the event that you're incapable of it.

Only few pictures I have them printed, the rest is all digital for the most part, unless you mean tapes/DVD/etc as a physical archive, then yeah I have that too.
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