4 items tagged “archives”
2024
Using static websites for tiny archives (via) Alex Chan:
Over the last year or so, I’ve been creating static websites to browse my local archives. I’ve done this for a variety of collections, including:
- paperwork I’ve scanned
- documents I’ve created
- screenshots I’ve taken
- web pages I’ve bookmarked
- video and audio files I’ve saved
This is such a neat idea. These tiny little personal archive websites aren't even served through a localhost web server - they exist as folders on disk, and Alex browses them by opening up the index.html file directly in a browser.
NYT Flash-based visualizations work again. The New York Times are using the open source Ruffle Flash emulator - built using Rust, compiled to WebAssembly - to get their old archived data visualization interactives working again.
2022
SIARD: Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases (via) I hadn’t heard of this before but it looks really interesting: the Federal Archives of Switzerland developed a standard for archiving any relational database as a zip file full of XML which is “is used in over 50 countries around the globe”.
2010
If You Don’t Date Your Work, It Sucks. I learnt this lesson the hard way, when I realised that I had no idea exactly what year I created my earliest web-facing projects.