basilesimon.bsky.social

basilesimon.bsky.social

@basilesimon.bsky.social

Verification, authentication, evidence, and human rights. Also Stanford / USC, Starling Lab, Global Witness, Investigative Commons, Airwars, Visual Evidence Lab, Hypha Coop. Ex Airwars, graphics editor Reuters, The Times, BBC.

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Marvin Milatz
@milatz.bsky.social

Just about to catch a super early flight to Brussels to add some thoughts on #osint, forensics and digital archives to this expert conference. Looking forward to mingle among web archivists from all over the globe. 👋 #iipcWAC26

netpreserve.bsky.social@netpreserve.bsky.social

Ready for #iipcWAC26: Sustainable #WebArchiving & the BelgicaWeb Symposium at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium. 🟢 netpreserve.org/ga2026/

basilesimon.bsky.social
@basilesimon.bsky.social

Huge FOMO from #AtmosphereConf aaaaaall the way out here in Europe. Fortunately our dear colleagues @udit.bsky.social and @makeworld.space from @hypha.coop had brought big ideas to it!

Atmosphere Community@atmosphere.community

@hypha.coop is at #AtmosphereConf and launching Nectar, a new API that allows searching for similar images across the Atmosphere. Use it to track reposts, make image annotations, watch social trends, and more. Learn more here: nectar.hypha.coop/

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Digital Humanities Lab, Exeter
@dhlabexeter.bsky.social

Digital preservation is cultural memory work. Websites disappear. Platforms shutdown. Links rot. Online creativity can vanish! For digital humanities, archiving the web means safeguarding historical records of the cultural moment, but preserving something so dynamic & vast is technically complex!

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basilesimon.bsky.social
@basilesimon.bsky.social

I’ve spoke about this “failure mode” and the need to design around it: the moment you hand your evidence to someone else, you’re trusting them not to change it. Your archive has to be (cryptographically) yours. Chain of custody has to start with you.

basilesimon.bsky.social
@basilesimon.bsky.social

That’s what we’re building with DEPT — web archives signed by you, held in your infra, verifiable and durable. Wrote about what the Archive(.)today ban actually means for journalists relying on third-party archives: digitalevidencetoolkit.org/news/archive-dot-today-removed-from-wikipedia

digitalevidencetoolkit.orgDEPT — Preserve web evidence, cryptographically signedCapture, sign, and preserve web content as tamper-evident archives. Built for investigative journalists and newsrooms.

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