Add digital-preservation collection

[ross-spencer]

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• Image (and my file is *.png, square, dimensions 288x288, size <= 75 kB)
• Content (and my changes are in index.md)

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Long-term preservation and archiving is important to all of us working digitally. The "industry" or "field" is young, and its open source status younger, but there are examplars of repositories that make a difference on GitHub and these, and I am sure others in future. I felt these are worth curating into a Collection with the hope it will inspire other developers and continue the momentum in existing repositories to keep working on them and improving them for bigger communities on GitHub.

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[tomthorogood]

@ross-spencer thank you for this contribution! It looks like the image you provided is failing validation because of how large it is. If you could please replace it with something scaled down to below 288x288px and also < 75kb, this can probably progress.

Thank you!

[ross-spencer]

Thanks @tomthorogood -- resized and pushed!

[jmeridth]

@ross-spencer can you please merge in latest of main?

[ross-spencer]

sure thing @jmeridth, just pushed!

[ahpook]

Test was failing because the filename and image field in the yaml need to be the same as the directory. I made a fixup PR and merged it to avoid you having to do any more back-and-forth - but I preserved your commit so it'll keep your attribution. Thanks for the contribution @ross-spencer !

[ross-spencer]

ah, sorry @aphook. I didn't realize. Many thanks for the help, I appreciate it! 🙏

[DirecktoR1919]

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