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 Jonny:
Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/jonny@neuromatch.social
Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jo.nny.rip
Media mentioned
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/browsertrix/
academictorrents - academic data tracker https://academictorrents.com/
aggregor mauve https://agregore.mauve.moe/
DRP - lumos https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/datalumos/home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
https://torrentfreak.com/controversy-as-rookie-admin-aspires-to-bittorrent-domination-080730/
ddos secrets https://ddosecrets.org/
Archive Team Warrior https://tracker.archiveteam.org/
How to contribute to sciop
https://sciop.net/docs/quickstart/
Create account.
Create a torrent. [find how to link for how to create a torrent]
Upload.
Get permission so they are visible to others.
Seed.
All transcripts: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/librarypunk
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