Links for July 2015

2015-07-31 (updated 2015-08-16)

• Archivists are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble | Hacker News
• Cassette Revolution: Why 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World | Collectors Weekly
• Data on the Web Best Practices
• French Government IT Directorate Supports ODF, Rejects OOXML - Slashdot
• How to type emojis on a Mac keyboard - Business Insider
• Isolated people in Sweden only stopped using runes 100 years ago | ScienceNordic
• JPEG2000—Choices and Tradeoffs for Encoders
• Keeping Up With the Joneses: The New Recommended Formats Statement | The Signal: Digital Preservation
• Letting Our Emojis Get in the Way - The New York Times
• Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement 2015-2016
• New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" - Slashdot
• Not fade away... how robots are preserving our old newspapers | Books | The Guardian
• Open Document Format 1.2 Published As ISO/IEC Standard - Slashdot
• Ruminations from the Long Doctor | ‘food’ != ‘food’
• The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind | Oldskooler Ramblings
• The hidden glyphs in your fonts - Typography.Guru
• The next Web standard could be music notation - Create Digital Music
• What happens to my late husband’s digital life now he’s gone? | Life and style | The Guardian
• World Emoji Day: Check out the 'missing emojis' you weren't supposed to see - Mirror Online
• jtleek/datasharing · GitHub

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