Also thousands of broken links on Wikipedia
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Now with the current job description! It's a permanent role, and no, the salary isn't amazing but the people are, and you can really make a difference to how people access digital collections at the British Library
It's a grim question and one that, obviously, pales into insignificance beside the human cost if this happens, but: what happens to a university's institutional repository when the institution fails/goes bankrupt/closes? Has any university taken digital preservation precautions?
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Here I am! 🤗 - what is the point of #digitalhumanities in a world which is on fire? and how has DH changed over the past 20 years? My personal take:
And an equally enormous loss: EThOS remains down, with plans to resurrect only a hugely degraded version, without downloads.
Access to the PhD theses here was crucial. I would always search it on a topic, because these PhD works can be really good. And they don't need to be a book to be cited.
Meanwhile the UK Web Archive has been unavailable since the British Library cyberattack in October 2023. Our already-spotty digital preservation infrastructures are falling into disrepair along with our universities. www.webarchive.org.uk
From a recent conversation it seems unlikely the UK Web Archive will fully return, at least within a BL context. The resource allocation (not just money, but money yes) is nowhere near enough and voices are shouting for other services to be a higher priority.
Which is deeply frustrating, and risky.