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News
Updates on the archive, the software preservation engine, and the foundation itself — posted as things actually happen, not on a fixed schedule.
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Why Software Preservation Matters
OPINION Why Software Preservation Matters It’s easy to assume that anything popular enough on the internet is safe by default — that someone, somewhere, already has…
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Automatic Verification Is Now Live
DEVELOPMENT Automatic Verification Is Now Live The verification engine described in our last engineering post is now running continuously across the archive, not just as a…
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Checksums, Signatures, and Trust
ENGINEERING BLOG Checksums, Signatures, and Trust A preservation archive that just says “we have a copy of this” isn’t saying very much on its own. The…
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Every Software Entry Now Credits Its Authors
DEVELOPMENT Every Software Entry Now Credits Its Authors Software entries used to record an author or organization as a plain line of text. That’s no longer…
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100 Software Projects Now Preserved
MILESTONES 100 Software Projects Now Preserved The archive has just crossed 100 preserved software projects, alongside dozens of license texts and documentation entries. It’s a small…
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How the Preservation Score Works
DEVELOPMENT How the Preservation Score Works Every software entry in the archive now shows a Preservation Score — a number out of 100 that tries to…
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Introducing Guardian Nodes
FOUNDATION NEWS Introducing Guardian Nodes A single archive, however well run, is still a single point of failure. The next piece of FKPF’s long-term thinking is…
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Free Knowledge Preservation Foundation Officially Launches
FOUNDATION NEWS Free Knowledge Preservation Foundation Officially Launches Today marks the official launch of the Free Knowledge Preservation Foundation (FKPF) — an independent effort to keep…