About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Jonny and Jez about the SciOp project, focusing on data preservation through torrenting.

Part 2 of our discussion with Jonny and Jez about SciOp, a torrent-focused data preservation project that encourages academics to help with the act of making data available. It’s distributed, it’s robust, and SciOp is working on making it easy to do. contact@safeguar.de Contact Jonny: Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/jonny@neuromatch.social Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jo.nny.rip Media mentioned https://sciop.net/ https://forum.safeguar.de/about https://blog.sciop.net/2025-08-29/webseeds https://punctumbooks.com/titles/warez-the-infrastructure-and-aesthetics-of-piracy/ Safeguarding/sciop: collecting at-risk data in torrent rss feeds - Codeberg.org - https://codeberg.org/safeguarding/sciop- the scraping code, such as it is: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop-scraping - sciop the blog, such as it is: https://blog.sciop.net/ https://programminghistorian.org/ https://book.the-turing-way.org/ last episodes on federation: https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/101-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-1-feat-jonny-saunders/ https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/102-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-2-feat-jonny/ Tools mentioned webrecorder, browser trix https://webrecorder.net/…

People in this episode

Host: librarypunk

Guests: Jonny, Jez

Topics covered

• data preservation
• torrenting
• academic collaboration
• digital archiving
• open access

Keywords

• SciOp
• data preservation
• torrent
• academics
• open access
• digital archiving
• webrecorder
• browsertrix
• aggregor mauve

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SciOp, Safeguard, Punctum Books, Academictorrents, Codeberg, Webrecorder, Browsertrix, DRP, Lumos

Books & works: Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy

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