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/ 
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 
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

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librarypunk

161 - SciOp.net feat. Jonny and Jez (part 2)

MAR 19, 202676 MIN
librarypunk

161 - SciOp.net feat. Jonny and Jez (part 2)

MAR 19, 202676 MIN

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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. [email protected]  Contact Jonny:  Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/[email protected] 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/  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  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT