Category: Preservation & Archiving
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Call for Proposals: Advancing Inclusive Computational Research with Archives Research Compute Hub
The Internet Archive invites applications to Advancing Inclusive Computational Research with ARCH. This pilot program will support less well-resourced organizations throughout the world with access to the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) and thousands of web archive collections, technical support and training, and learning opportunities with a supportive cohort of peers.
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HASTAC Hiatus—and Looking Ahead
Dear HASTAC Network Members, As we’ve been predicting all year, we are now moving into our shutdown phase as we undertake the crucial, final parts of our migration from HASTAC.org (2002/03-2022) to HASTAC Commons (2022-the future). We thank you all for your patience at this extremely complex and labor-intensive time. This move is a massive […]
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Rethinking Knowledge Production: An Interview with Dr. Lorena Gauthereau
Last year I had the opportunity to sit down virtually with Dr. Lorena Gauthereau for an hour to discuss her academic career and current work with the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage project. Dr. Gauthereau serves as the Digital Programs Manager for the US Latino Digital Humanities Center at the University of Houston and […]
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Comprehensive reference for managing special collections publishes in a new third edition
Facet Publishing announce the publication of The Special Collections Handbook, third edition. The dynamic sector of collections development is constantly changing. In The Special Collections Handbook, 3rd ed. Alison Cullingford has updated her comprehensive desk reference to grapple with the most complex issues of the moment, including guidance on decolonising special collections, the drive towards […]
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New resource for librarians provides a comprehensive foundation in building a metadata strategy for digital libraries
Facet Publishing announce the publication of Metadata in the Digital Library by Richard Gartner Producing metadata can be a prolonged and expensive process, and the range of metadata needed to run a digital library and preserve its collections in the long term is much more extensive and complicated than anything in its traditional counterpart. […]
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Unboxing Eli Thayer: Exploring Brown University Special Collections
In Spring 2019, I started working on a Digital Humanities project entitled, “The Speech that Settled Kansas: Eli Thayer’s Rousing Lecture” which was both challenging and fascinating for me. It is challenging because it deals with an 1854 speech by Eli Thayer, which has long been absent from the archive; fascinating as the absence has […]
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Curating a microseries of video pathways into the collections for the LGBTQ History Museum of Central Florida
INTRODUCTIONS This summer I will be working as a graduate student intern with the LGBTQ History Museum of Central Florida. To begin, I am completing my first year toward my PhD in Texts and Technology with the University of Central Florida. My concentrations are Public History and Editing, Publishing, and Interdisciplinary Curating (EPIC). I arrived […]
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When in Doubt, Screenshot: Navigating the Challenges of Digital Research
The night before a final research presentation late last spring, I opened my computer, absentmindedly clicked on a saved bookmark, and felt my heart drop into my stomach: the website had vanished. Instead of the normal cursive, Arabic font announcing that this was the homepage of the Moroccan Boutchichi Sufi order, the screen had turned […]
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Going Digital: DVCAI’s Caribbean and Latin American Art Digital Archive
On Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday) the Shroud of Turin was shown in public. The Shroud was last exhibited in 2015. How things have changed in five years. Physical distancing protocols meant that the 2020 public viewing was not the same as it had been in years and decades past. No people actually […]
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Adventures in the Archive: Text Mining Pan Am Periodicals
Adventures in the Archive: Text Mining Pan Am Periodicals Pan American Airlines was the major international airline for much of the 20thcentury, the United State’s unofficial national airline, and responsible for many of the innovations in air travel that are still with us today. Following bankruptcy in 1991, University of Miami acquired its archives and, […]