We’re talking 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.

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Contact Jonny: 

Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/[email protected]

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

- 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.

Transcripts: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/librarypunk 

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