Data preservation practices

markwyner · 2025-02-05T00:36:55.020Z

Hey, all.

I’m gearing up to help archive. I have a computer and can run the scripts. Once I have that data downloaded, I don’t know what to do with it. I’d like to respect your system, so help me understand your preferred process for me.

I’m ready to go and understand most of the technology. But when I get into torrents, seeding, etc. I am lost.

Basically, I want to help and am ready. I just don’t want to fuck up what you’re doing.

Thanks.

schoeneh · 2025-02-05T00:37:56.287Z

We’re working on tutorials etc.
Using wget is a really good starting point. You can look at Needs Safeguarding

markwyner · 2025-02-05T01:02:16.635Z

Right. That’s where I was going to get URLs. So just download and chill until y’all have a system in place for storage? I can do that.

schoeneh · 2025-02-05T08:03:56.040Z

exactly - stuff is in the works, but we need to do it right

CuriousApe · 2025-02-05T15:44:56.063Z

I help maintain digipres.org: DigiPres Commons Community-owned digital preservation resources and the associated digipres/awesome-digital-preservation: Carefully curated list of awesome digital preservation resources. Hopefully some of the things there might help a bit?

schoeneh · 2025-02-05T15:56:56.941Z

they most certainly will!

markwyner · 2025-02-06T18:36:53.363Z

Rockstar. I’ll explore those resources.