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The National Archives is pleased to announce the release of DROID 6.6.1 which can be downloaded here.

DROID 6.6.1 is a minor update to DROID 6.6.0, that fixes a bug in the no-profile mode output and hash column. DROID 6.6.1 also updates the internal logging library to the latest version available at the time of release.

When: Friday 26 May 2023

Time:   1:30-4:00pm

Where: British Library, Staff Entrance, Midland Road, NW1 2DB

Capacity: 16 people

Register here: https://forms.gle/HLMV6chmQhKG6kJ66 (Registration closes 17th May)

This in person workshop explores how web archives collections can be described using the Datasheets for Datasets framework.

Significant work in web archives scholarship focuses on the description and provenance of collections and their data. Looking beyond the worlds of libraries, archives and cultural heritage can provide valuable alternative approaches, which we can experiment with and use. Datasheets for Datasets is a method for describing large datasets from the field of machine learning, which uses a standard set of questions arranged by stages of the data lifecycle.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes, A risk driven approach to Bitstream Preservation by Paul Wheatley, available on general release today.

A risk driven approach to Bitstream Preservation explores some of the challenges that must be addressed by a storage architecture designed for long-term digital preservation. It considers the risks faced by content stored over the long-term and concludes with a simple approach to assess and document the risks and mitigating actions put in place to address them.