#digital-archive — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digital-archive, aggregated by home.social.
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I was digging through some old backups and found these photos from 2009.
Captured on a 2-megapixel Nokia 6233.
No filters, no AI processing, no HDR. Just the raw, unoptimized Eastern European vibe.
Sometimes hardware limitations capture the actual atmosphere of a place much better than any modern smartphone lens could.
It feels like a paused background process from the past.
#Nokia6233 #RetroTech #EasternEurope #LiminalSpace #DigitalArchive #Photography #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts
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HTML-Archiving: static, standalone, efficient
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https://www.wacoca.com/tour/890902/ 【岐阜県郡上市】大和町「大間見白山神社」大神楽 ②（2008年10月04日） #10号リール #304 #DAT #dbx #DigitalArchive #TEAC #オープンリール #お祭り #かき踊り #デジタルアーカイブ #中神路 #伊勢神楽 #八幡 #八幡神社 #六ノ里 #南宮神社 #和良 #嘉喜踊り #地域資源 #大和 #大和町 #大神楽 #大間見 #宮城 #宮城ツアー #宮城県 #宮城県ツアー #宮城県観光 #宮城観光 #山車 #島七代天神社 #懸踊り #戸隠神社 #明宝 #明建神社 #昭和 #民俗文化 #熊野神社 #熱田神社 #白山神社 #白鳥 #白鳥神社 #百合若神社 #祭礼 #稲荷神社 #美並 #苅安白山神社 #貴船神社 #郡上おどり #郡上八幡 #郡上市 #郡上郡 #高鷲 #鹿島神社
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"The #Sydney #Jewish #Museum has launched an interactive #website to preserve memories, tributes and testimonies from the #December14 #BondiBeach #terror attack for the historical record.
The platform, called “Remembering Bondi,” allows community members, local residents, witnesses, victims’ families and anyone affected by the attack to contribute photos, videos, thoughts and recollections to a growing #digitalarchive."
https://www.australianjewishnews.com/sydney-jewish-museum-launches-digital-archive/
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❄️ ’Tis the season to celebrate with Sierra On-Line’s 1986 "A Computer Christmas." ❄️ Thanks to #softwarepreservation, this retro holiday classic is now a perennial gift for new generations of holiday revelers. 🎄
See all the animated sequences ⤵️
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"The core technical challenge was clear: How do we allow investigators to move fast while maintaining a forensic chain of custody? A simple screenshot is insufficient for legal or historical proof. We needed a system where an investigator could claim, “at this time and date, I browsed this unique URL which contained precisely this content,“ and be able to back it up with cryptographic proof."
https://dispatch.starlinglab.org/p/pilot-project-on-making-web-preservation
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"Eighty years after the Nuremberg Trials began, the efforts by prosecutors, judges, and others to seek a measure of justice in the aftermath of monstrous atrocities stand as a landmark moment in the history of law and society."
Direct link to archive: https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
#Nuremberg #NurembergTrials #DigitalArchive #DigitalPreservation
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Why you shouldn't rely entirely on the @internetarchive:
A case from the shady world of online casinos: delasport, an IT infrastructure provider for online gambling sites was apparently succeful with deletion request.
When you search for delasport.com on the Wayback Machine, you get "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine": https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/delasport.com
I am wondering how they justified their request
https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/
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Ah, the #nostalgia of vintage movie posters—perfect for those who pine for the days when "interactive" meant turning a book page. 📚✨ But wait! To access this thrilling digital archive, you'll need to become a #JavaScript wizard. 🧙♂️📜 Because nothing says "retro" like modern web technologies. 🙄
https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/search #vintageposters #retro #digitalarchive #HackerNews #ngated -
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits – School Library Journal
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits
by Kara Yorio, Oct 03, 2025 | Filed in News & Features
The all-volunteer initiative is documenting exhibits at the more than 20 Smithsonian Institution museums and the National Zoo in response to the Trump administration’s announcement that museums’ contents would be subject to review and revision to align with the president’s directive.
When retired Virginia school librarian Mary Anne O’Rourke learned about a project to digitally archive the Smithsonian Institution museums, she immediately wanted to volunteer.
“I spent my career teaching children how to research and look up facts, how to know facts from distortions, and what were good sources? The Smithsonian has been our greatest source,” says O’Rourke, who was a preK–8 librarian for 11 years after being a classroom teacher and working at the Smithsonian Visitor Information Center.
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is an all-volunteer effort to document everything on display at the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, the National Zoo, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Volunteers take photos and videos of exhibits in this crowdsourced archiving endeavor. Organizers call it “Crowd to Cloud” and plan to make the information accessible to the media and public.The initiative is a response to an August letter sent by the Trump administration to the Smithsonian Institution secretary stating that exhibits were subject to review and revision in an effort to “reflect the unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story.” The letter went on to say it was an effort to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives.”
After learning of the administration’s intentions, Georgetown University history professors Chandra Manning and James A. Millward wanted to take action. Inspired by Save Our Signs—which seeks to document signs and information at National Parks that may be removed by the administration—Manning and Millward sent an email to the university’s history department saying they wanted to find a way to document the Smithsonian exhibits. Upon receiving the email, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, a graduate research assistant at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, immediately proposed possible ways of achieving the goal and offered to help coordinate. Not only is the dual master’s student pursuing a degree in Global, International, and Comparative History, the Smithsonian also holds a special place in her personal history.
“When I was in college, my partner and I were long distance, and we would meet up every other weekend in D.C. and go to the Smithsonian,” Dickinson Goodman says. “They are very personal to me. They’re a big part of my sense of my country, and my sense of my field, and my sense of pride in what it means to be an American—that we can produce these amazing free institutions to the public and to the world. And these institutions hold within them a huge amount of human wisdom and American and world experience that deserve to be accessible.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
#2025 #America #CitizenHistorians #DigitalArchive #DonaldTrump #Education #Exhibits #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #SchoolLibraryJournal #Science #SLJ #Smithsonian #SmithsonianInstitution #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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🧐 Oh goody! Just what the world was clamoring for—a digital edition of a book from 1922 on printing types! 🎉 Because, clearly, nothing says cutting-edge technology like dusting off century-old typography wisdom in an age of AI and virtual reality. 💾📜
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/explore-a-new-digital-edition-of-printing-types-the-authoritative-history-of-printing-typography-from-1922.html #digitalarchive #typographyhistory #vintagebooks #AItechnology #printingtypes #HackerNews #ngated -
AI/Machine learning is amazing if …
https://katharinabrunner.de/2025/09/ai-machine-learning-is-amazing-if/
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➘Dig Archive
An archived collection of digitized media art, text, zines, videos, and other saved works from around the net, and beyond.
https://leetusman.com/archive/
#archives #archive #digitalarchive #digarchive #zines #library #wanderer
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A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#HackerNews #BYTEarchive #BYTEmagazine #techhistory #digitalarchive #zoomablesearch
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Reconcile data against Omeka S with Open Refine
https://katharinabrunner.de/2025/08/reconcile-data-against-omeka-s-with-open-refine/
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An inside look at how the Internet Archive saves the web
The non-profit organisation based in San Francisco gathers billions of web pages in a huge digital archiving project to preserve our internet history from being erased. It also stores and catalogue millions of books, records and videos from around the world.
By Lily Jamali
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browsertrix: fetch all on forummuenchen.org
https://katharinabrunner.de/2025/03/browsertrix-fetch-all-on-forummuenchen-org/
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Wie das Archiv der sozialen Demokratie Teile des Internets archiviert
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Video Game History Foundation has opened up their digital archives. You can for example find old magazines there, like "Game Informer" or "Game Developer"
#DigitalArchive #DigitalLibrary #Magazines #GameHistory #VideoGameHistory
https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/9a193e8c-67e0-45ff-98d2-a33e85721cc4
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🎵 When 300+ musicians say "don't touch that dial" (or those 78rpm records), maybe we should listen! Internet Archive faces $621M lawsuit for preserving century-old music. Seems some corporate suits prefer their history locked in a vault rather than shared with future generations. 🎪 #preservation #digitalarchive
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"At the heart of the problem is a lack of money, infrastructure and expertise to archive digital resources. “Digital preservation is expensive and also quite difficult,”
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Make Linked Open Data Usable: The Concept of LOUD: It’s now LOUD instead of LOD. Thanks for making parts of you dissertation public @julsraemy
https://katharinabrunner.de/2024/11/make-linked-open-data-usable-the-concept-of-loud/
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Make Linked Open Data Usable: The Concept of LOUD
https://katharinabrunner.de/2024/11/make-linked-open-data-usable-the-concept-of-loud/
