Help Stock the Digital Preservation Bake Off Pantry

Hello friends,

As part of the iPRES 2025 Tools Demo Session: The Digital Preservation Bake
Off
<https://www.ipres2025.nz/post/ipres-tools-demo-session-the-digital-preservation-bake-off>,
we’re adding to our Pantry
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_BFjNw95HhH45VO-Y2gmJTbd6kfYAtuY?usp=sharing>
of sample data, and we need your help finding the right ingredients!

We’re looking for digital “flavors” that will challenge and inspire the
preservation tools on display. If you’ve got any of the following tucked
away, please consider donating them to the cause:

Vintage Web & Archives

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   Websites from 1995–2000 (archived copies welcome)
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   WARC files (web archive captures)
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   Other types of web archives

Media & Transcripts

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   Video files with matching WebVTT (.vtt) transcripts
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   Standalone WebVTT (.vtt) files – captions, subtitles, or transcripts

Special Formats & Legacy Files

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   Mountable disk images
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   ClarisWorks (.cwk) files

Datasets & Domain Collections

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   Botanical/taxonomic datasets and related imagery
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   Comprehensive email dataset with personal information (from a donor who
   is happy to share appropriately)
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   “General files used by humans in an office” – everyday digital documents
   and miscellany

All contributions should be accompanied by a public use license (e.g.,
Creative Commons, public domain, or similar). Please zip your files before
sending. Our upload space flattens directory structures without identifying
uploaders; zipped bundles keep your “ingredients” together and clearly
labeled. Please donate to the pantry using this Box link
<https://virginia.app.box.com/f/ba578f552acd4e1ea04807cef12d7893>.

If you have something deliciously preservable to share, please email or
send us a download link. The more variety we have, the better the tasting
menu will be at iPres 2025.

Thank you for helping us make this Bake Off a true feast for digital
preservationists!
Warmly (and whisk in hand),
Nathan Tallman
(On behalf of the iPres 2025 Bake Off Team, please excuse cross-posting.)

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Nathan Tallman
Executive Director, APTrust
nathan.tallman_at_aptrust.org / ntallman_at_virginia.edu
434-924-4582
Schedule a Meeting <https://scheduler.zoom.us/ntallman>