Over the last year, we have been working with Dr Leontien Talboom on the Future Nostalgia Project. As part of that work, Leontien has been working with a range of floppy disk experts to pull together a new reference guide for working with floppy disks, called Copy That Floppy!
We know there is a lot of expertise in this area among the DPC membership, so we wanted to put out a call for comments and feedback. If you've worked with floppy disks, please consider taking a look and helping us make this guide as rich and helpful as possible! Leontien will keep the Google Document version open for comments until the end of the year, and the first official version of the guide will be published shortly after that.
If you'd like to find out more about the project, you might like to read this blog post about the in-person workshop we ran: Preserving Digital Memory at the Festival of Floppies | by Leontien Talboom | Oct, 2025 | Digital Preservation at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives.
