The digital preservation community is invited to submit nominations of at-risk digital materials to the 2023 edition of the ‘Bit List’ by Friday
30th June, next week.
A free-to-access and open resource for digital preservation advocacy, the DPC's Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Species (or Bit List for short) is
a community-sourced list of at-risk digital materials which is revised every two years. Entries to the list are nominated by the community, who are at the forefront of digital preservation efforts, and reviewed by international organizations which represent
global expertise in the preservation of the listed digital species.
By compiling and maintaining the Bit List, the DPC aims to equip digital preservation practitioners with independent evidence that digital materials are critically endangered, and that action is required, in order to support their targeted
advocacy efforts: "One of the most impactful things about using the Bit List in this way was that I was able to demonstrate risk by pointing to an independently verified resource… rather than staff just hearing from me that these digital materials were
at risk," explains Bryony Hooper at the University of Sheffield in her recent Byte-sized Bit List blog post.
Current entries include content types like social media or specific file formats; media
types like floppy disks or obsolete optical media; or data from specific contexts like politically sensitive content or community archives which are
not at risk for any technical reason but reside in unstable contexts. Nominations to the Bit List 2023 could combine any or all of these themes.
MAKE YOUR NOMINATION TO THE BIT LIST BY FRIDAY 30TH JUNE.
*Apologies for cross-posting*
Sarah Middleton | she/her
Head of Advocacy and Community Engagement
Digital Preservation Coalition
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