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Thrilled to share my new article with Sangha Kang-Le, titled "Understanding the Value of a Digital Equity Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration Using Participatory Action Research" just published in the Journal of Participatory Research Methods. #digitalequity jprm.scholasticahq.com/article/1290...

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For CAIS 2025, I'll be hosting a panel next Wednesday morning on "Knowledge Organization in a Dangerous Time." Come to hear my very smart colleagues discuss what metadata has to do with fascism; stay for the free virtual registration to the whole wonderful conference! cais2025.ca/talk/1931-bu...

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I finally got around to watching Grand Theft Hamlet and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it! I'm not sure if it is a testament to how wonderfully odd and participatory virtual spaces like Grand Theft Auto Online can be or because some Shakespeare truly is timeless. Perhaps a bit of both?

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Doing some research that involves perusing early 90s technology magazines, and am reminded about how valuable a certain archive of the internet is to this work, but also reminded how that same place would benefit from even the most minimal of metadata quality control

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I know a lot of us are confounded by how folks could shift to tech solutions for very easy tasks, but as someone who just tried to do subtraction by hand for the first time in some time and lurched through the process it is starting to make more and more sense

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Another student in their digital preservation video essay on preserving a UMD copy of Ghost Rider may have come up with a visual and mantra that I will share far and wide

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A highlight from a student video essay for my digital prez class. In it they tracked down obsolete hardware and software to preserve an N64 Memory Pack labeled "Sports," only to discover corrupted files. A fun, albeit disconcerting, example of the need for digital preservation work to be proactive.

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As it turns out, @florencesn.bsky.social and @mtrc.bsky.social's ArchaeOS is pretty much a solo tabletop RPG about inscrutable artifacts and our relationship to a digital past that's actively eroding beneath our fingertips. And it gives you printable zine!

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Listen there has been a lot beautiful tech in the world but my personal favorite might be this Pioneer Laserdisc controller

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This is a friendly reminder that looking up the musicians who post stickers for their bands on local signage can sometimes yield interesting results. At worst, you learn about passionate local musicians and at best, you learn about new genres of music like "neon" metal.

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Found this Game Genie ad in a comic book and posted it to the back of my office door partly because I like the aesthetic and to help serve as a guiding principle 👾😎👽

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🚨 NEW ARTICLE! 🚨 Understanding conspiracy culture through alternate reality gaming and rare book catalogues! 🚨 How an early internet hoax called Ong's Hat holds the secret to understanding our present post-literate culture! doi.org/10.1108/JD-0...

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Strongly considering collecting and re-reading all of the Animorphs books. I apologize in advance if this becomes my whole personality.

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Shout out to @ryancordell.org for talking to my Digital Preservation class about his and the role of intermediate media in digital preservation at @skeuomorphpress.org The best remediation moment was him using a portable document scanner to show the screen of a 2000s era Macbook.

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I know I am friends with some real metadata nerds on here. Any suggestions?

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We are talking formats in digital preservation this week, and there is only one tried and true way that I know to get students to explore the breadth and depth of formats

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Really excited to be collaborating with Emily on this project and it is proving more relevant than we could have anticipated!

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In terms of the greatest television shows about science teachers keeping secrets, there is Breaking Bad, but it is far inferior to Ultraman 80.

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In my digital preservation class, we only discuss the most important cultural artifacts

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New co-authored article out in JASIST titled "You're This Person Who's Providing Light”: Embodied Responses to Information Loss and Transition Within LGBTQIA+ Communities." What started as theoretical interest has unfortunately taken on more timely stakes. Check it out here: shorturl.at/uw7zj

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I was planning to use some census data for a case study in my digital preservation class on Wednesday, but now I guess I will be using the entirety of government data as a case study instead 🙃

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Brainstorming names for my bowling team with @drtlwagner.bsky.social I came up with “Vannevar Bush Leagues” & I’m inordinately proud of that

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I asked ChatGPT to generate a 1980s superhero called Digital Preservation Man (with the intent of talking through how digital preservation can't be a solo effort). Honestly, I would read this comic. However, it raises the question of who will digitally preserve the digital preservationist?

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Cooking up something special using old formats to record new media #anapressisanapress

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My new article just dropped in The Moving Image! The paper explores how we think about moving image archives in the still evolving methodologies of transgender historiography and argues for the value of speculative queer archival theory. See more below: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

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I fear I have found the greatest YouTube playlist of all time

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I'm working on the course shell for my digital preservation course and went with this gem from Season 1 of Buffy. Apologies for the size of the image; it is from the 2000s internet.

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Not me using my holiday break to submit FOIA requests for videos from the TSA's YouTube page

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When you get a book about an obsolete media format with supplemental materials on that format, you can also use it to test some hardware in your office—bonus points for anyone who can identify the media player amidst the black lines of misaligned refresh rates.

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Another group titled their info org podcast MARC130 which is also very funny

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The final assignment for my information organization class involves students making podcasts, and one of them titled their podcast "If I Find Melvil Dewey in Hell, It's On Sight", and it reminds me that the future of the profession might be a radical one.

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I was attempting to order some books with research funds and the university auto blocked the book for being "adult content." This was the book in question: www.upress.umn.edu/978081667611...

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What's more nü metal than a public library?

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I have a new book chapter out about how a Black queer furry competitive gamer utilizes multiple digital technologies to imagine new forms of archival embodiment. Feel free to peep no it here and apologies (or not) for the curse in the title: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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