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January 3, 2017 / Last updated : January 3, 2017 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Newshub: How we blamed the Queen for a hold-up in Paris

Need a story illustrating the importance of good naming standards for your photo archives? Here ya go. “You may have noticed that Newshub’s redesigned website launched in December. As part of this, we took the necessary step of moving our entire photo archive across to a new database. Unfortunately, more than 5000 of these images […]

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 […]

September 3, 2016 / Last updated : September 3, 2016 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Internet Archive: Hacking Web Archives

Fun stuff from The Internet Archive: Hacking Web Archives. “…it has been exciting to see — and for us to support and participate in — a number of recent efforts in the scholarly and library/archives communities to hold hackathons and datathons focused on getting web archives into the hands of research and users. The events […]

August 12, 2016 / Last updated : August 12, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Rhizome Releases First Full Version of Dynamic Web Archiving Tool

If there’s never another issue of ResearchBuzz, you can blame this new dynamic Web archiving tool which was just released by Rhizome. “Rhizome is pleased to announce the first full release of Webrecorder, the free online tool that allows users to create their own high-fidelity archives of the dynamic web.” Oh boy, does this look […]

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 […]

May 21, 2016 / Last updated : May 21, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

A Digital Archive of… Stuff

Now available: a digital archive of… stuff. “Today every tweet is archived, every Facebook selfie stashed and cached, every arts/tech/culture blog mirrored, and the idea of the permanence of data is taken for granted. But things like physical objects aren’t permanent. They break down, melt, or are tossed in the trash, and could potentially disappear […]

April 28, 2016 / Last updated : April 27, 2016 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Online Archive About India’s Culture

Now available: an online archive about India’s culture. “Sahapedia aims to educate the people of India about the traditions, visual arts, performing arts, literature and languages that is scattered across the country. The portal is accessible to all and is a strong initiative towards the digitisation and research on the traditional art forms of India […]

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 […]

January 31, 2016 / Last updated : January 31, 2016 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

The Web and Audiovisual Archiving

Luke McKernan put up his talk about audiovisual archives and the Web. “Good afternoon. My name is Luke McKernan, and I am Lead Curator for News & Moving Image at the British Library. I’m going to talk about something that has interested me for some while, which is the changing scale of audiovisual archiving. I’m […]

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 […]

September 29, 2015 / Last updated : September 29, 2015 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Putting a Digital Archive on the Moon

Two companies are teaming up to put a digital archive on the moon. And they want your contributions. “Astrobotic Technology Inc. and Lunar Missions Ltd, the company behind the global, inclusive, not-for-profit crowd-funded Lunar Mission One, have signed a deal to send the first digital storage payload to the Moon. The payload will support Lunar […]

September 10, 2015 / Last updated : September 10, 2015 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

ePADD Gets a Grant

ePADD is expanding with a grant. “The ePADD open-source email archiving and processing platform developed by Stanford University Libraries was awarded a $685,000 National Leadership Grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on August 31.” This article has an extensive overview of what ePADD is and what it does, if you’re curious.

September 1, 2015 / Last updated : September 1, 2015 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Web Site Preservation is a Big Fail

Librarians, you know this: Web site preservation is an enormous fail. “If the internet is at its core is a system of record, then it is failing to complete that mission. Sometime in 2014, the internet surpassed a billion websites, while it has since fallen back a bit, it’s quite obviously an enormous repository. When […]

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