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• Welcome to the Digital Preservation Community

  See here for tutorials, discussions + community lists. Digital Preservation encompasses the efforts necessary to maintain access to digital materials despite technological development or failure, human intervention, and organisational change.

  Introductory Training Videos

  Getting Started (beginners)

  Learning to Code

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  The OPF uses GitHub to host and manage all of its software projects. There are several reasons for this:

  GitHub is the biggest online platform for open source software projects in the world.

  Its toolset, including issue management, contribution tracking and code review, is free for open source projects.

  GitHub provides a sustainable home for our projects. If the OPF were to cease to exist, our projects would continue to be available.

  Why Should You Use GitHub

  GitHub is a great way to get involved in open source software development. It's used by thousands of projects and millions of developers. It's a great way to learn about software development and to build your skills. It's also a way to show off your skills as your work is attributed to you on a public platform.

  What if I Can't Use GitHub?

  If you really can't use GitHub, but want to contribute to the Hackathon, please get in touch with us on info@openpreservation.org and we'll see what we can do.

  We look forward to working and learning with you. We’ll also be listening to you and will cover ad-hoc topics if there is enough interest among the attendees.

• OPF Tools

  OPF maintains a number of open source digital preservation tools that address common digital preservation challenges. Our tools are widely adopted by the community, and can be used as stand-alone tools, as part of a bespoke digital preservation workflow, or can be found embedded in several leading commercial solutions.

  Use this space to discuss our tools, or log issues on our Github: https://github.com/openpreserve

  JHOVE

  veraPDF

  Jpylyzer

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  The latest release, 2.1.0, was in October, 2022!
  See the release notes here.

• Hackathon

  Thank you for signing up to participate in the #OPFHackathon! We’re excited to have had so many people sign up with different skills and experiences, and we’re looking forward to working with both first-timers and hackathon veterans.

  Please don’t forget to share this event with your friends and colleagues! We’ll be using the hashtag #OPFHackathon. Please share your working-photos + thoughts with us throughout the summer!

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  To begin, we just ask that you look at the available JHOVE issues and FIDO issues on GitHub. If you see something you’d like to work on, then please add a comment to the issue to that effect. The OPF team will then get in touch as we assign work to contributors.

  If you’d like to work on something that isn’t listed, please contact us, and we’ll see what we can do.

  If you don’t already have a GitHub account, you’ll need to create one. You can do this here. For complete novices, we will be running introductory webinars covering registration, please see the Hackathon events page for the current program.

  Once you have a GitHub account, you’ll need to let us know your username so that we can add you to the OPF organisation on the site. You can do this by emailing info@openpreservation.org.

• General Comments & Feedback

  Got a question that doesn't fit anywhere else? Ask away!

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• Interesting Reads?

  In such a big and developing field, there's so much being written about digital preservation. Please use this section to post and talk about your most interesting reads and discussions.

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  A different vibe to academic reading, but the Archives of Tomorrow also have fun free educational materials as part of an illustrative guide series! Shout the author a coffee on their Ko-fi in way of donation.

  They've got two new ones coming in the autumn:

  The Illustrated Guide to Audio

  The Illustrated Guide to Film