Help Stock the Digital Preservation Bake Off Pantry
Nathan Tallman
Hello friends,
As part of the iPRES 2025 Tools Demo Session: The Digital Preservation Bake Off, we’re adding to our Pantry 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
Websites from 1995–2000 (archived copies welcome)
WARC files (web archive captures)
Other types of web archives
Media & Transcripts
Video files with matching WebVTT (.vtt) transcripts
Standalone WebVTT (.vtt) files – captions, subtitles, or transcripts
Special Formats & Legacy Files
Mountable disk images
ClarisWorks (.cwk) files
Datasets & Domain Collections
Botanical/taxonomic datasets and related imagery
Comprehensive email dataset with personal information (from a donor who is happy to share appropriately)
“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.
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.)