English Edition: preserving digital data has become essential for archives and libraries, as we have seen an explosion of content. I met with various experts in the field who talk to me about the different aspects and facets of saving our data for future generations to come: Thomas Ries (University of Austin, Texas, US), Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Katie Mackinnon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Andy Jackson (Digital Preservation Coalition, UK) and Laurisa Sastoque Pabon (University of Southampton, UK).

Some links to tools and sites mentioned in the episode:

• https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/format/proformatsearch.aspx?status=new Pronom database by the National Archive in the UK
• https://www.dpconline.org/ Digital Preservation Coalition
  • https://bit-list.dpconline.org/ list of 'endangered digital material'
• https://thorsten-ries.net/ Thorsten Ries home page
• https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-preservation-southampton Digital preservation at the Uni. Southampton
• https://arcticworldarchive.org/ Svalbard Arctic World Archive
• https://piql.com/ piql data preservation
  • https://github.com/piql GitHub Piql - the archiving file format
• https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/434376-preserving-today-s-digital-data-for-tomorrow
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w storing data in glass/silica
• https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/ Project Silica
• https://english.umd.edu/directory/matthew-kirschenbaum Kirschenbaum papers on recovering digital texts etc.
• https://www.kali.org/tools/foremost/ the open source "forensic" data tool
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls going back in time: a link with a description of the Dead Sea scrolls

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