Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Digital Preservation

WikiProject Conservation and Collection Care Proposal
I have recently submitted a new WikiProject proposal that ties-in very closely with WikiProject Digital Preservation. The proposed project is WikiProject Conservation and Collection Care which, if approved, will aim to create new articles, as well as to gather existing articles, concerning conservation and collection care at museums, libraries, historic locations, archives, and other relevant sites into a collaborative project. Technically this group could be considered a sister or parent category of WikiProject Digital Preservation, given the wider scope of the project which will include other-than-digital assets. I am therefore writing to your group to inform you of my decision to request a seperate group, as well as to inquire if a collaboration might be an option. Given the obvious close connection between the two projects, and my own inexperience with starting a WikiProject, I am open to suggestions, collaborations, and advice from a well-established group such as your own. Thank you.- AngelKelley (talk) 23:56, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

COMMENT RE PROPOSAL: Hi, Angel! The project you've outlined is pretty ambitious and would take a lot of people in a sustained effort to accomplish. As you've seen, the NDSA Working Group on Standards and Best Practices has begun a project to revise the Digital Preservation article, which needs a great deal of work and, inevitably, involves reviewing a large number of related articles. That will be our focus for the present. I don't think we will be able to collaborate on a larger scheme right now, and would recommend that you consider Digital Preservation a "sister project" for the present. --Davissp (talk) 15:33, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply and I completely understand already having your hands full. As for the number of people needed to sustain the proposed project, we are already reaching out to individuals outside of the Wikipedia community in hopes of garnering additional support. Again, I appreciate your reply and if you have a moment to weigh in on the official proposal page with support or further comments for discussion it would be greatly appreciated. Best of luck with your own project's future endeavors! AngelKelley (talk) 18:45, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

National Recording Preservation Plan
The United States Library of Congress has a National Recording Preservation Plan. —Wavelength (talk) 03:17, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Now Hear This: Library of Congress Issues Plan to Preserve Recordings - NYTimes.com (February 14, 2013)

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Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

"True Binary Clock (Anthony Liekens)"
Copied from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Digital_Preservation/Userbox:

Why is a photo of someone's product used as the image for this WikiProject? It is in this the userbox, the this Project page, and the Project template, yet has nothing to do with digital preservation. Arlo James Barnes 01:09, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Good question! Do you know of another image that fits the WikiProject that's already on Commons or which you could get on there (which implies that it's openly licensed or that the author is willing to license it so, e.g. if you email him)? --Fixuture (talk) 03:42, 15 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I am glad you asked, . Well, the image he used is a binary tree rather similar to the discs used in rotary encoders, so something from commons:Category:Encoder_discs would be a start, since it would help with the image freeness and commercial endorsement issues although not with the relevance one. For that, I will keep working on ideas, including seeing if I can verify the license of an photo I have seen of a pile'o'hard-drives in the Archive.org offices. Arlo James Barnes 04:37, 15 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I really would love an Internet Archive-related image as project-image. The hard part is that the image has to look well in the small size it's displayed in the templates and also be representative of the project at the same time. I would guess that while a pile'o'hard-drives in the Archive.org offices would be pretty representative it wouldn't look so good at the small size (that might be different if it's an icon / sketch of hard drives or so). I suggest involving other WikiProject participants so that we can collaboratively find (and decide on) a good image for the project. As I don't think many of them watch this page you probably should create a new talk page entry at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Digital Preservation or simply move this discussion there (simple copy/paste). --Fixuture (talk) 12:25, 15 January 2017 (UTC)


 * — Done. Good point about the readability at small sizes. Arlo James Barnes 19:14, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Proposed Merge
It is proposed this project is merged with WikiProject Collections Care, the amalgamation of the two projects would benefit the scope of both projects by bringing editors with similar interests together. Digital preservation is an integral part of collection care, and likewise a digital collection may be covered by the same principles as caring for a physical collection. In the modern era, physical and digital collections are increasing integrated. Dysklyver 09:19, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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