#citizenarchiving — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #citizenarchiving, aggregated by home.social.
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Tom’s Hardware: Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald’s boxes being given away for free — Internet Archive looks set to claim the tapes of U.S. news output spanning 2004-09. “If you would like to rehome thousands of old VHS videotapes, there’s an incredible hoard of these nostalgic artifacts from the days of analog TV, stored carefully in McDonald’s boxes, […]
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Geneanet: Geneanet ‘Save our Graves’ Weekend, October 17-19, 2025. “Since cemeteries are among the most important resources for genealogists, Geneanet has launched the ‘Save our Graves’ project to capture headstones before they are lost. On October 17-19, 2025, we will need you to photograph as many graves as possible worldwide with the Geneanet mobile app or with your camera.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/29/geneanet-geneanet-save-our-graves-weekend-october-17-19-2025/
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ABS-CBN: Resurrecting nostalgia: Archiving to preserve history before it’s too late. “In the age of streaming, it’s hard to imagine not being able to watch a film again after its theatrical run, or a show after it has aired on television. But almost half a century ago, this was the reality faced by then-high school student Dann Garcia. He observed at the time the dearth in the available […]
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Print: ‘Queer Happened Here’ Unearths a Century of NYC’s Underground Queer Spaces. “Writer, historian, and New York native Marc Zinaman identified this absence in the chronicling of the city’s queer community, and decided to do something about it. He began an Instagram account in 2021, @queer_happened_here, as a resource and community hub on which to document and archive gay spaces […]