#digitizingprojects — Public Fediverse posts

University of Cambridge: Copyright research and the Liberation collection (1944-1946). “It will include copyright research and clearance allowing for the publication of a selection of digitised books from the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation collection (1944-1946) on Cambridge Digital Library. As part of the project, we will hold a series of meetings to discuss the challenges and opportunities raised […]

Dallas Observer: African American Museum Unveils First of Many Big Upgrades in Multiyear Plan. “The lab’s new digitization equipment will allow the museum to establish an online archive — a years-long process key to making the museum’s cultural artifacts and primary source materials more accessible. The new lab will also feature an observation window so visitors can witness the […]

Dallas Observer: African American Museum Unveils First of Many Big Upgrades in Multiyear Plan. “The lab’s new digitization equipment will allow the museum to establish an online archive — a years-long process key to making the museum’s cultural artifacts and primary source materials more accessible. The new lab will also feature an observation window so visitors can witness the […]

Dallas Observer: African American Museum Unveils First of Many Big Upgrades in Multiyear Plan. “The lab’s new digitization equipment will allow the museum to establish an online archive — a years-long process key to making the museum’s cultural artifacts and primary source materials more accessible. The new lab will also feature an observation window so visitors can witness the […]

Dallas Observer: African American Museum Unveils First of Many Big Upgrades in Multiyear Plan. “The lab’s new digitization equipment will allow the museum to establish an online archive — a years-long process key to making the museum’s cultural artifacts and primary source materials more accessible. The new lab will also feature an observation window so visitors can witness the […]

Dallas Observer: African American Museum Unveils First of Many Big Upgrades in Multiyear Plan. “The lab’s new digitization equipment will allow the museum to establish an online archive — a years-long process key to making the museum’s cultural artifacts and primary source materials more accessible. The new lab will also feature an observation window so visitors can witness the […]

DVIDS: Nellis AFB, UNLV collaborate on preserving the base’s history. “The 99th Air Base Wing History Office launched a collaboration with University of Nevada, Las Vegas to digitize its collection of more than 50,000 newspaper pages, some articles dating back to the base’s earliest days in World War II.”

Library of Congress: Preserving the 175,000 FSA photographs, one at a time. “Here we are in the digital darkroom of the Prints and Photographs Division, where a 16-year-long effort to digitize in high resolution the 175,000 or so Farm Security Administration photographs of the country in the 1930s and ’40s is coming to an end, perhaps by the end of this year. It’s kind of a big deal.”

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: Digitized Copy of 1478 Ptolemy’s ‘Geography’ Available Online. “Thanks to the work of Digital Collections & Initiatives, the American Geographical Society Library has recently made available a digitized 1478 copy of Ptolemy’s Geography. The AGSL holds over 30 volumes from copies of Ptolemy’s Geography, with this digitization marking the tenth volume […]

HathiTrust: Activating the Collection: HathiTrust’s Strategy for Stewardship and Growth. “At the 2025 Member Meeting in Brief last fall, and briefly at the 2025 Community Week session ‘Building the HathiTrust Collection Through Special Collections,’ we announced a new HathiTrust Collection Strategy. The completion of this strategy was a long time coming, guided by past work and future […]

Sydney Morning Herald: Out of 11 million photos, one news photo taken in the heart of Sydney is nagging Harry. “In a secret climate-controlled facility in Sydney’s west, photo specialist Harry Hollinsworth is working through The Sydney Morning Herald’s archives to save photos that brought history to life. The Herald celebrates its 195th birthday on Saturday, April 18 and Hollinsworth is […]

Chosun Daily: Yanghwajin Archives Digitizes Edith’s Handprint, 1910s Missionary Photos. “The Yanghwajin Archives recently created a digital archive of over 7,000 items donated by the family of Rosetta Hall, the Welbon (1866–1928, Korean name Oh Wol-beon) missionary who worked in the Andong region, and the family of Jeon Taek-bu (1915–2008), well-known by his pen name Ori.”

New York State Library: Scanning with FamilySearch. “The NYS Library is working with Family Search International, a global nonprofit genealogy organization, to expand access to some of the New York’s most important ancestry records and historical collections. Since January 2026, Mark and Lynne Hamp, a retired couple from Utah, have been hard at work […]

William & Mary: Students digitize Black women’s history, one diary at a time. “[Mia] Hunt is one of a dozen W&M students contributing to the Black Women’s Diaries Project (BWDP), a multi‑year effort led by [Professor Jennifer] Putzi to transcribe, annotate and digitally encode the diaries of 19th‑ and early 20th‑century African American women. The project will debut online in October […]

Public Power Review: Bringing Back New Deal Local Labor History with AI. “I’ve gone through the work of producing a digital archive of Chattanooga’s Labor World newspaper for the years 1929 to 1940. Labor World was published by the Chattanooga Trades and Labor Council, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, from 1915 to 1984. The archive is organized into PDF files by volume, […]

New-to-me, from Nasha Niva: Enthusiasts Digitized All Minsk Cemeteries . “At the moment, we have digitized 95 percent of Minsk’s burials, 25 percent of the Minsk region, and partially other cities of Belarus. In addition, we have entered almost all mass graves from the war period, as well as the locations of all cemeteries in Belarus. In total, there is information on 620,000 deceased, but this […]

BBC: Writer’s poems helped boost the abolition campaign. “Letters written by a prominent abolitionist are being digitised, filling in a ‘massive bit of the jigsaw’ in the abolition campaign history, experts say. Novelist Hannah More, born in Bristol in 1745, also helped open some of the UK’s first schools for working class people.”

University of Miami: Preserving the legacy of the first woman US attorney general. “Through a major preservation effort led by University of Miami Libraries, damaged physical media from the Janet Reno Papers have been digitized and recently made available to the public, offering deeper insight into the former attorney general’s life and legacy.”

GPO: GPO And The Library Of Congress Digitize 10,000 Volumes Of The United States Serial Set. “U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) achieved a major milestone by uploading and making available its 10,000th volume of the United States Congressional Serial Set on GPO’s GovInfo. Those volumes contain more than 185,000 individual Government documents and reports.”

Goshen College: The Bulletin archive fully digitized. “The Bulletin, Goshen College’s official magazine, is now available online in its entirety thanks to the digitization work of the Internet Archive. Every issue, dating back to 1903, is available on the Internet Archive’s site.”

Goshen College: The Bulletin archive fully digitized. “The Bulletin, Goshen College’s official magazine, is now available online in its entirety thanks to the digitization work of the Internet Archive. Every issue, dating back to 1903, is available on the Internet Archive’s site.”

Goshen College: The Bulletin archive fully digitized. “The Bulletin, Goshen College’s official magazine, is now available online in its entirety thanks to the digitization work of the Internet Archive. Every issue, dating back to 1903, is available on the Internet Archive’s site.”

Goshen College: The Bulletin archive fully digitized. “The Bulletin, Goshen College’s official magazine, is now available online in its entirety thanks to the digitization work of the Internet Archive. Every issue, dating back to 1903, is available on the Internet Archive’s site.”

Hoover Institution: Russia Abroad Digital Collection Surpasses One Million Pages Digitized in First Year. “The Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ launched the Russia Abroad Digital Collection in November 2024 and today celebrates a major milestone: more than one million fully searchable pages from nearly six hundred Russian émigré newspapers are now available worldwide through its […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/26/hoover-institution-russia-abroad-digital-collection-surpasses-one-million-pages-digitized-in-first-year/

Hoover Institution: Russia Abroad Digital Collection Surpasses One Million Pages Digitized in First Year. “The Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ launched the Russia Abroad Digital Collection in November 2024 and today celebrates a major milestone: more than one million fully searchable pages from nearly six hundred Russian émigré newspapers are now available worldwide through its […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/26/hoover-institution-russia-abroad-digital-collection-surpasses-one-million-pages-digitized-in-first-year/

Hoover Institution: Russia Abroad Digital Collection Surpasses One Million Pages Digitized in First Year. “The Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ launched the Russia Abroad Digital Collection in November 2024 and today celebrates a major milestone: more than one million fully searchable pages from nearly six hundred Russian émigré newspapers are now available worldwide through its […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/26/hoover-institution-russia-abroad-digital-collection-surpasses-one-million-pages-digitized-in-first-year/

Hoover Institution: Russia Abroad Digital Collection Surpasses One Million Pages Digitized in First Year. “The Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ launched the Russia Abroad Digital Collection in November 2024 and today celebrates a major milestone: more than one million fully searchable pages from nearly six hundred Russian émigré newspapers are now available worldwide through its […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/26/hoover-institution-russia-abroad-digital-collection-surpasses-one-million-pages-digitized-in-first-year/

WKYT: Civil War soldier’s letters to wife digitized for online viewing. “More than 100 Civil War-era letters written by a Union Army soldier to his wife have been digitized and made available online through a new website created by the Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum. The letters were penned by William Bosler Jones, a Union Army soldier from Northern Kentucky, and his bride Mary Phillips […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/01/wkyt-civil-war-soldiers-letters-to-wife-digitized-for-online-viewing/

University of Exeter: National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’. “A digital team led by Exeter’s Dr Charlotte Tupman, of the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology, will transform the 500-year old Latin manuscripts into modern, searchable records, translated, analysed and in each case linked to current maps using […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/08/university-of-exeter-national-project-launched-to-rediscover-henry-viiis-long-forgotten-tudor-domesday-book/

Harvard Countway Library: E.A. Codman’s 1896 Album of stereoscopic and plain X-rays digitized!. “The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce the digitization of E. A. Codman’s Album of stereoscopic and plain X-rays : radiographs, 1896. This album represents some of the earliest X-rays taken at Harvard Medical School, only a year after the first Radiograph was taken by Wilhelm […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/28/harvard-countway-library-e-a-codmans-1896-album-of-stereoscopic-and-plain-x-rays-digitized/

Purdue University: Forts to files, reimagined: MRCC brings historic weather data into the digital age. “The MRCC recently launched a searchable, downloadable archive of 19th-century weather records. Pulled from more than 450 U.S. observation stations, including over 350 that have undergone quality control through NOAA Climate Data Base Modernization (CDMP) funding, the project digitized […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/19/forts-to-files-reimagined-mrcc-brings-historic-weather-data-into-the-digital-age-purdue-university/

BBC: ‘Race against time’ to save Mary Rose video archive. “Students at the University of Portsmouth are digitising more than 600 tapes containing video footage of Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, which sank in the Solent…. The 40-year-old tapes have been deteriorating and there were fears that the video archive could be lost.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/bbc-race-against-time-to-save-mary-rose-video-archive/

MassisPost: Institute of Armenian Studies Armen Aroyan Collection Now Available Through USC Digital Library . “The Collection comprises nearly 400 videos documenting group trips to Eastern Turkey––historical Western Armenia––between 1988 to 2016. The trips were organized by Armen Aroyan, an engineer and USC alum, mostly of American-Armenians visiting ancestral Armenian sites […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/massispost-institute-of-armenian-studies-armen-aroyan-collection-now-available-through-usc-digital-library/

Detroit Free Press: Decades of Michigan lake data, hidden in filing cabinets, digitized with volunteer help. “The 78 years of data on 1,300 Michigan lakes are now fully digitized and available to researchers and the public at the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue data repository. Resurrected from file cabinet drawers, the data is now being used to drive new research.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/detroit-free-press-decades-of-michigan-lake-data-hidden-in-filing-cabinets-digitized-with-volunteer-help/

WHYY: ‘The Revolutionary City’ gives everyone access to original documents of Philly residents living through the war. “The revolutionary moment that gave birth to the United States 250 years ago had many stories. A new online archive aims to bring tens of thousands of them to life. A group of Philadelphia-area historical organizations are pooling their archives into ‘The Revolutionary […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/whyy-the-revolutionary-city-gives-everyone-access-to-original-documents-of-philly-residents-living-through-the-war/

Hürriyet Daily News : Manuscript collection now accessible online. “The manuscript collection of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (TIEM), which has a significant place among manuscript archives in Türkiye, has been digitized and is now accessible to the public.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/05/hurriyet-daily-news-manuscript-collection-now-accessible-online/

Hoover Institution: Tranche of 800+ Audio Tapes, Including Conversations with Nazis, Digitized and Available for Research at Hoover . “In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender in May 1945, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives has released more than 800 digitized audio recordings and transcripts of conversations relating to 20th century conflict – most […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/06/hoover-institution-tranche-of-800-audio-tapes-including-conversations-with-nazis-digitized-and-available-for-research-at-hoover/

Hoover Institution: Tranche of 800+ Audio Tapes, Including Conversations with Nazis, Digitized and Available for Research at Hoover . “In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender in May 1945, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives has released more than 800 digitized audio recordings and transcripts of conversations relating to 20th century conflict – most […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/06/hoover-institution-tranche-of-800-audio-tapes-including-conversations-with-nazis-digitized-and-available-for-research-at-hoover/

Internet Archive Blogs: New Digital Collection Preserves Key Books on Drug Use and Policy. “For many years, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) maintained a large library of books on drug use and policy at its New York City headquarters. As researchers shifted to working online, DPA’s Jules Netherland said she noticed fewer people coming into the office to use the collection…. DPA donated its […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/internet-archive-blogs-new-digital-collection-preserves-key-books-on-drug-use-and-policy/

Talk of the Sound: Westchester Unveils Rare Revolutionary War Accounts. “The Westchester County Historical Society has released a digitized collection of 1,100 pages of eyewitness accounts from the American Revolution, titled ‘Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews.’ The compilation, now accessible on the Westchester County Archives Digital […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/24/talk-of-the-sound-westchester-unveils-rare-revolutionary-war-accounts/

Railroad Commission of Texas: RRC Records Digitization Fast Approaching 100 Million Files. “The Railroad Commission of Texas continues to make great strides in digitizing oil and gas records as the agency improves both transparency and efficiency in its daily functions. With more than 89.4 million records now digitized – up by more than six million since last October – the RRC is fast […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/railroad-commission-of-texas-rrc-records-digitization-fast-approaching-100-million-files/

Peak District National Park Foundation (UK): Landscapes Unlocked – opening our historic image archive to the public. “We are delighted to announce the launch of Landscapes Unlocked, an ambitious new project made possible by funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Pilgrim Trust, The Wolfson Foundation, and The National Archives. In partnership with the Peak District National […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/25/landscapes-unlocked-opening-our-historic-image-archive-to-the-public-peak-district-national-park-foundation/

Heritage Fund: Capturing memories from four decades of the Island Games. “Taking place every two years, the competition has gone from strength to strength since the very first Inter-Island Games on the Isle of Man in 1985. A total of 28 different islands, island groups and territories from around the world have taken part. … Our funding – awarded to the Sporting Memories Foundation […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/24/heritage-fund-capturing-memories-from-four-decades-of-the-island-games/

Northeastern Global News: Preserving Cherokee heritage: Northeastern revives ‘The Willie Jumper Stories’ and other lost tales. “This legend and many more tales of notable Cherokee people and events are all captured in ‘The Willie Jumper Stories,’ a collection of tales written by Cherokee Baptist priest Willie Jumper in 1964. The stories offer valuable insight not only into Cherokee […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/22/preserving-cherokee-heritage-northeastern-revives-the-willie-jumper-stories-and-other-lost-tales-northeastern-global-news/