Save Archive #SaveSafe • @1MEMO_20261024

Save Archive #SaveSafe • @1MEMO_20261024 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Save Our Safe — The greatest challenge for the future is keeping our growing digital archives accessible. It is costly and time-consuming, but essential: storage formats change rapidly, and obsolete files cannot simply be opened.

Meanwhile, large sums are being invested in AI to produce ever more digital knowledge, yet it draws only on the heritage that is already available in digital form. It is five to twelve: the analogue archives and digital knowledge are in danger of growing apart. What exists only on paper is no longer being made accessible. I see this in science, where much of the paper library is not available digitally and is, in effect, being lost: consulting purely analogue sources cannot compete with the rapid digital knowledge-gathering for the new generation of researchers.

In this way, our history risks being abandoned through short-sightedness and replaced by an impoverished summary of whatever knowledge happens to be digitally available today. Text reworked and translated with the help of Claude.

NL — Save de Safe (bewaar en red de kluis) — De grootste uitdaging voor de toekomst is het toegankelijk houden van onze groeiende digitale archieven. Dat is kostbaar en tijdrovend, maar onmisbaar: opslagformaten veranderen snel en verouderde bestanden zijn niet zonder meer te openen.

Intussen gaat er veel geld naar AI, dat méér digitale kennis produceert, maar daarbij put uit het erfgoed dat al digitaal beschikbaar is. Het is vijf voor twaalf: de analoge archieven en de digitale kennis dreigen van elkaar te vervreemden. Wat alleen op papier is vastgelegd, wordt niet meer ontsloten. Ik zie dat in de wetenschap, waar een groot deel van de papieren bibliotheek niet digitaal beschikbaar is en daardoor in feite verloren gaat: het raadplegen van uitsluitend analoge bronnen kan niet op tegen de snelle digitale kennisvergaring voor de nieuwe onderzoeker.

Zo dreigt onze geschiedenis uit kortzichtigheid te worden opgegeven en vervangen door een verschraalde samenvatting van de kennis die nu toevallig digitaal beschikbaar is. Tekst herwerkt en vertaald met behulp van AI Claude.

#SaveSafe #SaveArchive #archive #transition #digital #history #lost #education #erfgoed #science #AI #Claude #erfgoed

Lost in Transition • @1MEMO 20250509

Jun 21, 2007, I started pioneering at YouTube, creating Channel012.
The first YouTube video ‘Fire Breather’ was shot at a 4:3 aspect ratio (640×480 pixels) and produced at a 16:9 aspect ratio with black bars for my first YouTube upload on Dec 30, 2007.

Unlisted ‘Fire Breather • 2nd Edition’

Next a 2nd edition of ‘Fire Breather’ was produced at the original 4:3 aspect ratio, and uploaded the next month, Jan 18, 2008.
YouTube displayed that 2nd edition at a higher quality. Sometime later though I decided to change visibility of that 2nd edition to ‘unlisted’ in order to preserve and favor the 1st edition views count.

Lost Forgotten Film

More recently that forgotten unlisted 2nd edition video appeared to be lost somehow…until I learned today that YouTube had changed visibility in 2021 of all unlisted videos uploaded before 2017 to ‘private’ automatically for security reasons with a worldwide system change.

Today I changed visibility at YouTube of that 2nd edition (video shown above) to public.

Notes


Still ‘Fire Breather • 2nd Edition’ • @1MEMO 20250509 • TakeNode bc90fb98-6a51-4c98-9ad6-1502d11fb7d2

Channel012 :

  • The original name ‘Channel012’ is operational too in the link youtube.com/channel012

YouTube – Channel012 – First upload , Dec 30, 2007 : Fire Breather • @1MEMO 20071230 • youtube.com/channel012 • URL https://youtu.be/cJDIJg0qhl8

Fire Breather | 2nd Edition • @1MEMO 20080118 • TakeNode 541d345c-ff23-495f-b0c2-8564ce90af17

YouTube team. Update to YouTube Unlisted Links. Jun 23, 2021. URL https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-youtube-unlisted-links/

Inspiration :

Rosas-Salazar Vladimir (2025), “Fading Echoes: Remembering and Forgetting through Videotapes.” [in]Transition 12(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.16950

Tags :

#lost #film #edition #unlisted #YouTube #memory #fragment #digital #intransition #fire #firebreather #performance #Holland #art #pioneer #channel012

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