Ethan Gates

Software preservation. Moving image archivist/technician. Soviet Cinema enthusiast. Passionate about movies, crosswords, audiovisual cables. He/him.

Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

Software in science is ubiquitous yet overlooked | nature.com/articles/s43588-024

July 02, 2024
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

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June 17, 2024
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

DAMS/repository-type folks: what's your preferred, relatively accessible (say: for non-archivist staff) term for a born-digital object that's done being worked *on* but not necessarily done being worked *with*? "Preservation copy"?

(OAIS vocab not acceptable!)

May 22, 2024
Ethan Gates
The_BFOOL@digipres.club

12-year old Ethan reading IGN just to find out when Advance Wars 2 was going to come out or w/e is having a very surreal time even being tangentially involved in this particular news cycle

Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need - IGN
ign.com/articles/why-piracy-fe

May 18, 2024