Sharon McMeekin<p>So, with the release of the job ad below, the cat is out of the bag. After nearly 14 years, I will be leaving the DPC in a couple of weeks. It was a tough decision to make but I'm excited to take on some new challenges (more on that coming soon...)</p><p>I'll probably take some time soon to reflect on the last 14 years but in the meantime, if anyone is interested in the post and wants to hear more about what it entails, just give me a shout!</p><p><a href="https://www.dpconline.org/news/job-vacancies/hgp-hwd-dpc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dpconline.org/news/job-vacanci</span><span class="invisible">es/hgp-hwd-dpc</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a></p>
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Here's an idle #digipres question: do we know the origins of the 3-2-1 rule? As in, where and when it was first put forward?
I bring it up often in grad school writing, where I'm supposed to cite it, and I always wonder about its ultimate source
Out now, zusammen mit @gamestudies.bsky.social:
Social Playing? Überlegungen zu einem vernetzten Spielerlebnis
TL;DR Wäre toll, wenn wir unser Gaming direkt "anspielbar" miteinander teilen könnten. Digital Humanities und #DigiPres wüssten bereits, wie es geht. Doch die Plattformökonomie der Games-Branche lässt das nicht zu; stattdessen dann Streaming mit twitch, bei dem wir nur unsere Displays abfilmen dürfen.
doi.orgSocial Playing? Überlegungen zu einem vernetzten SpielerlebnisDieses Discussion Paper untersucht das Konzept des Social Playing als Erweiterung der klassischen Digitalspielerfahrung, bei der der Austausch und die Interaktion zwischen Spieler:innen – ähnlich wie beim Social Reading – im Mittelpunkt stehen. Während Social Reading den individuellen Leseprozess durch Einblicke in die Gedanken, Markierungen und Notizen anderer Leser:innen bereichert, zielt Social Playing darauf ab, das Digitalspielerlebnis durch zusätzliche soziale Kontexte und Interaktionen zu transformieren. So wird die oft isolierte Erfahrung des klassischen Einzelspielermodus durch eine subtil vernetzte, gemeinschaftsorientierte Ebene ergänzt. Social Playing beschreibt ein System, das es Spieler:innen ermöglichen soll, Randnotizen, Audioaufzeichnungen oder visuelle Hinweise oder Marker anderer Nutzer:innen während des eigenen Spielverlaufs einzusehen. Diese Mechaniken schaffen nicht nur ein bereicherndes Spielerlebnis, sondern eröffnen auch eine neue Dimension des sozialen Austauschs, ohne die Eigenständigkeit und Immersion der einzelnen Spieler:innen zu beeinträchtigen.
This discussion paper explores the concept of social playing as an extension of the classic digital gaming experience, focusing on the exchange and interaction between players - similar to social reading. While social reading enriches the individual reading process by providing insights into the thoughts, markings and notes of other readers, social playing aims to transform the digital gaming experience through additional social contexts and interactions. In this way, the often isolated experience of the classic single-player mode is supplemented by a subtly networked, community-oriented level. Social playing describes a system that enables players to view side notes, audio recordings or visual cues from other users during their own gameplay. These mechanics not only create an enriching gaming experience, but also open up a new dimension of social exchange without compromising the autonomy and immersion of individual players.
File format building blocks: primitives in digital preservation
by @beet_keeper
A primitive in software development can be described as:
a fundamental data type or code that can be used to build more complex software programs or interfaces.
– via https://www.capterra.com/glossary/primitive/ (also Wiki: language primitives)
Like bricks and mortar in the building industry, or oil and acrylic for a painter, a primitive helps a software developer to create increasingly more complex software, from your shell scripts, to entire digital preservation systems.
Primitives also help us to create file formats, as we’ve seen with the Eyeglass example I have presented previously, the file format is at its most fundamental level a representation of a data structure as a binary stream, that can be read out of the data structure onto disk, and likewise from disk to a data structure from code.
For the file format developer we have at our disposal all of the primitives that the software developer has, and like them, we also have “file formats” (as we tend to understand them in digital preservation terms) that serve as our primitives as well.
Continue reading “File format building blocks: primitives in digital preservation”…
La dernière version d'OAIS vient d'être publiée dans sa version ISO
https://www.iso.org/standard/87471.html
#digipres #DigitalPreservation
ISOISO 14721:2025Space Data System Practices — Reference model for an open archival information system (OAIS)
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Next, I compared the good and bad files in Hex Fiend. The good ones had an "lh1" signature in the header, while the bad ones had an "lh5."
Okay, clearly they were using different compression methods. But how could I extract the lh5 ones?
Googling turned up this Keka issue on GitHub --
https://github.com/aonez/Keka/issues/1257 -- which mentions a different problematic Atari ST LZH file on Discmaster and how dexvert handles it fine.
(2\x)
GitHubAnother odd LZH from Atari ST · Issue #1257 · aonez/Keka