Yahoo! #1 MS-DOS English, 1994 - 1995 Demozine with built-in database about the demoscene and its history Floppy Disk Magazines Floppy Disk Magazines Preserving Forgotten Digital Heritage Preserving Forgotten Digital Heritage Optron #16 ZX Spectrum Russian, 1997 - 2001 Ukrainian non-commercial disk magazine, developed and published by various creators from Lviv Bad Mag #2 Amstrad/Schneider CPC English/German, 1992 - 1993 Bilingual German-British-Irish zine of the international democoder scene and the only diskmag on 3“ disk Project Progress 1. Data collection • Prehistory: a number of fan databases and collections of diskmags and related information • Next step: applying data scraping techniques to gather data and references • Outcome: ﬁ ve comprehensive datasets with 2,000+ unique magazine titles and references to 20,000+ issues 2. Data preparation • Measure 1: design a cohesive structure for the available datasets • Measure 2: data cleaning and standardization with OpenReﬁ ne • Measure 3: transformation of single datasets into object relational data model 4. Further steps • Next project stage: create a text corpus of German diskmags • Extract text from binary disk images (requires decompression and unicodiﬁ cation) • Collect and digitize images of printed material (covers, disks, manuals) • Study the collection and the corpus with computational methods 3. Data publication • Conﬁ gure a Semantic MediaWiki instance and open it to members of the diskmags community to create and edit records • Conﬁ gure a FactGrid instance to generate authority records for diskmag titles and related entities • Include binary data of original disks where legally and technically possible Coming soon! Project Homepage: http://diskmags.de Project Manager: Dr. phil. Torsten Roeder • torsten.roeder@uni-wuerzburg.de Participants: Johannes Leitgeb, Madlin Marenec, Tomash Shtohryn, Yannik Herbst Center for Philology and Digitality at University of Würzburg • https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/zpd Disk Magazine publications across systems Magic Disk #1 Commodore 64 German, 1987 - 1993 Popular commercial diskmag on hardware and software, especially for gamers and hobby programmers Digital Talk #113 Commodore 64 English/German, 1993 - now Active fanzine of the retrocomputing community, still published on original ﬂ oppy disks About Diskmags were born-digital journals published on electronic media in the 1980s and 1990s. Some were commercial products, many of them were created by young enthusiasts for communication in the home computer scene. Today, they give insight to a highly creative, early digital and multi-medial culture in the ﬁ rst decades of microcomputing. But the state of preservation is poor, as neither libraries nor archives did collect diskmags systematically. This one-year project, funded in 2023, aims at preserving this valuable cultural heritage by creating a scientiﬁ c collection and a digital text corpus for further research. Maggie #20 ATARI ST English, 1990 - 2016 Multimedia diskmag which also contained poetry and other literary forms... and a poem about diskmags! Warp #2 ATARI ST English, 1995 - 1996 Star Trek fanzine with a fascinating menu Softdisk #2 APPLE II English, 1981 - 1995 The ﬁ rst magazine published on 5.25“ ﬂ oppy disk Le Petit Amiga Illustre #8 Amiga French, 1992 - 1996 Francophone diskmag with a wide variety of scene contents and a colorful menu system DOI DOI 10.5281/zenodo.8158532 10.5281/zenodo.8158532