September 14, 2016 / Last updated : September 14, 2016 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Slate – The Electric Archive: What does it mean for a magazine to leave no paper trail?

From Slate: The Electric Archive: What does it mean for a magazine to leave no paper trail? “Archives like Slate’s are inevitably the archives of the future, because more and more creative work exists only online. Yet the medium is so different from paper that they change the nature of the archiving endeavor and the […]
June 28, 2016 / Last updated : June 27, 2016 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Digital Archive of Children’s Books Subject of Tagging Project

The ABC Books Digital Archive at Princeton was the subject of a large and fascinating tagging project. “ABC Books is a digital archive of over fifty rare and historical children’s alphabet books, available to view page-by-page. The project is primarily pedagogical in nature. Linked to the English Department’s ‘Children’s Literature’ course, it provides an opportunity […]
June 8, 2016 / Last updated : June 7, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

In Development: Archive of Historical Arabic Manuscripts

In development: a digital archive of historical Arabic manuscripts. “St. Catherine’s Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site that’s located on rugged terrain at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt, houses the oldest continually operating library in the world, containing ancient and medieval manuscripts second only to those held by the Vatican Library. These remarkable […]
April 12, 2016 / Last updated : April 12, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Aggregating Institutional Web Archives With Cobweb

A new open source, collaborative platform has been proposed for aggregating institutional archives. “With the technical and financial capacity of any currently existing single institution failing to answer the needs for a platform efficiently archiving the web, a team of American researchers have come up with an innovative solution, submitted to the U.S. Institute of […]
December 7, 2015 / Last updated : December 7, 2015 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Baseball Hall of Fame Trying to Preserve Old Photographs

From Popular Photography: How the Baseball Hall of Fame Is Trying to Preserve Classic Photographs “Even if you’re a huge baseball fan, the name Charles M. Conlon is probably still not a familiar one. But, he’s responsible for some truly amazing and enduring photographs taken during some of baseball’s golden years. There’s currently a large-scale […]
November 10, 2015 / Last updated : November 10, 2015 ResearchBuzz Useful Stuff

History, Born-Digital Archives, and Managing the Data Flow

It’s two years old, but this paper from Ian Milligan addresses issues that are coming more and more into prominence. Check out Mining the ‘Internet Graveyard’: Rethinking the Historians’ Toolkit. “‘Mining the Internet Graveyard’ argues that the advent of massive quantity of born-digital historical sources necessitates a rethinking of the historians’ toolkit. The contours of […]