Technology Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/category/technology/ Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. Fri, 18 Aug 2023 22:15:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.permanent.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Permanent-Icon-512-32x32.png Technology Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/category/technology/ 32 32 Data Transfer Improvements https://www.permanent.org/blog/data-transfer-improvements/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/data-transfer-improvements/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2023 22:15:33 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5535 Over the past few months at Permanent, we’ve made it possible to transfer data and storage in some new ways.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/data-transfer-improvements/feed/ 0 Thoughts on Digital Preservation and Improving the Software Development Process with Nix https://www.permanent.org/blog/thoughts-on-nix/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/thoughts-on-nix/#respond Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:55:17 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5189 I recently had the privilege of attending the Southern California Linux Expo, where I attended a variety of talks covering PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, the intersection between open source and public policy, protecting yourself from surveillance on the Internet, and more.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/thoughts-on-nix/feed/ 0 Download and Secure Your Twitter Data Now https://www.permanent.org/blog/download-twitter-data/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/download-twitter-data/#respond Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:01:09 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4917 Permanent.org exists for the preservation of your digital legacy, as you define it, not for profit.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/download-twitter-data/feed/ 0 Preserve Your Holiday or Event on the Go with the Permanent Mobile Apps https://www.permanent.org/blog/preserve-your-holiday-or-event-on-the-go-with-the-permanent-mobile-apps%ef%bf%bc/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/preserve-your-holiday-or-event-on-the-go-with-the-permanent-mobile-apps%ef%bf%bc/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:08:36 +0000 https://www.permanent.org/?p=4597 With the launch of our new iOS and Android mobile apps, it’s easier than ever to preserve your memories from a special vacation, a holiday, a birthday, an anniversary, or a family reunion. We created the Permanent mobile apps because we know that you’re already using your mobile device to capture special moments and memories. We wanted to make it even easier for you to preserve those photos and videos from your summer vacation, your grandchild’s birthday party, your Memorial Day gathering, or your family reunion on your phone and on the go.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/preserve-your-holiday-or-event-on-the-go-with-the-permanent-mobile-apps%ef%bf%bc/feed/ 0 Can We Have Nice Things on the Internet? https://www.permanent.org/blog/can-we-have-nice-things-on-the-internet/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/can-we-have-nice-things-on-the-internet/#respond Tue, 26 Apr 2022 22:42:46 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4520 Permanent.org exists for the preservation of your digital legacy, as you define it, not for profit.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/can-we-have-nice-things-on-the-internet/feed/ 0 Announcing the Beta Release of Our Mobile Apps for iOS and Android https://www.permanent.org/blog/announcing-the-beta-release-of-our-mobile-apps-for-ios-and-android/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/announcing-the-beta-release-of-our-mobile-apps-for-ios-and-android/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:52:11 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=3935 Permanent is excited to announce that our new and improved mobile apps for iOS and Android are available as beta releases starting today!

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/announcing-the-beta-release-of-our-mobile-apps-for-ios-and-android/feed/ 1 Permanent’s Etherpad Prototype is Ready! https://www.permanent.org/blog/permanents-etherpad-prototype-is-ready/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/permanents-etherpad-prototype-is-ready/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:56:08 +0000 https://35.161.73.71/blog/permanents-etherpad-prototype-is-ready/ Earlier this year, Permanent embarked on an exciting experiment. Would it be possible to seamlessly integrate a collaborative text editor into Permanent.org? We’re excited to announce that yes, it absolutely is possible, and we’re close to implementing it in Permanent.org! Generously funded by Grant for the Web, this project successfully integrated Etherpad into Permanent.org, allowing anyone to save and sync a collaborative notepad to their existing Permanent archive. The integration is currently a prototype, and we’re eager to share it with our community. If you’re interested in trying out the integration, sign up to be an Etherpad prototype tester. For many of us, collaborative text documents are disposable: They’re useful in the context of a ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/permanents-etherpad-prototype-is-ready/feed/ 1 From Permanent.org to the Internet Archive in Just One Click https://www.permanent.org/blog/from-permanent-org-to-the-internet-archive-in-just-one-click/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/from-permanent-org-to-the-internet-archive-in-just-one-click/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:50:41 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/from-permanent-org-to-the-internet-archive-in-just-one-click/ At Permanent, we enjoy making it easy for you to share your archives.  Sometimes that sharing is private.  It might mean making sure everybody in your family can enjoy the mementos of a journey across generations.  At other times, we want to help you submit your media more widely— to research efforts and public collections like the Internet Archive, for example.  To help with that, we have made some improvements to Permanent that let you send files to the Internet Archive with just one click. What is the Internet Archive you ask? It is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Their mission is to provide Universal Access ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/from-permanent-org-to-the-internet-archive-in-just-one-click/feed/ 1 Upgrades to Uploads https://www.permanent.org/blog/upgrades-to-uploads/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/upgrades-to-uploads/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:54:52 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/upgrades-to-uploads/ Over the past few months the Permanent engineering team has been hard at work making fundamental improvements to the way people upload data to their archives.  A lot of these changes work behind the scenes, but they were a massive undertaking that is core to the Permanent mission so we wanted to share a little bit about what got done, why, and what we thought about when we designed the new architecture. The Before Times Last year the Permanent code base was having troubles with uploads.  This was a serious problem because uploading content for permanent storage is kind of an important part of what people want to do when they sign up for Permanent! The symptoms were clear enough: ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/upgrades-to-uploads/feed/ 1 The Oral Tradition is Permanent https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-oral-tradition-is-permanent/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-oral-tradition-is-permanent/#respond Thu, 11 Mar 2021 04:32:55 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/the-oral-tradition-is-permanent/ This is a guest post by Zack Ellis, founder & CEO of TheirStory announcing an exciting new partnership with the Permanent Legacy Foundation. I am thrilled to announce a truly innovative partnership between TheirStory and the Permanent Legacy Foundation, which has the potential to revolutionize how we collect, preserve, and access oral histories.  TheirStory has built a remote video communication platform custom-tailored to the unique needs of oral history and community-centered storytelling. Our platform not only makes remotely recording oral history safe and easy during the global pandemic, we also make sure the audio quality of those oral histories meets the standards of the most discerning oral historians. Beyond the ease and quality of the ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-oral-tradition-is-permanent/feed/ 0 How We Built Our Internet Archive Integration https://www.permanent.org/blog/how-we-built-our-internet-archive-integration/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/how-we-built-our-internet-archive-integration/#comments Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:22:45 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/how-we-built-our-internet-archive-integration/ At Permanent, we make it possible for anyone to preserve their personal digital legacy and make it perpetually accessible to future generations. That’s why we take a multi-provider approach and work with both commercial storage solutions as well as museums, libraries, and other digital archives. Multiple copies stored in many different places is the only way to guarantee preservation. So when we learned that the good folks at the Internet Archive provided a public API that we could use to publish our user’s digital materials to their system, we knew we had to build an integration for it. The result was a surprisingly easy to use feature. Check it out how we did it. The ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/how-we-built-our-internet-archive-integration/feed/ 2 Contrary to popular belief, what you put on the internet is not forever. https://www.permanent.org/blog/contrary-to-popular-belief-what-you-put-on-the-internet-is-not-forever/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/contrary-to-popular-belief-what-you-put-on-the-internet-is-not-forever/#respond Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:26:22 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/contrary-to-popular-belief-what-you-put-on-the-internet-is-not-forever/ It can feel like the internet will never fade away when photos of your college exploits resurface in a Google search or when you cringe at what your kids are posting on Instagram. The truth however, is a little more complicated and a lot less permanent. The digital world wasn’t ever designed with permanence in mind. From the volatility of storage devices to the short-sighted business models that dominate for-profit social media services, our digital world is incredibly fleeting. It was designed to be small, fast and free. Your CDs, DVDs, disk drives, floppy disks, tapes, you name it – they’ll all be unreadable in a generation, some in a decade. Where does that leave ...

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