#endangeredarchives — Public Fediverse posts

ABC 15: Disabled Marine veteran forced to sell rare 1,000-letter WWII archive to save his family. “A disabled Marine Corps veteran who spent more than a decade preserving a rare collection of over 1,000 World War II letters says he now has no choice but to sell it. Joseph ‘Joe’ Alosi, 100% service-connected disabled, says mounting medical bills, the loss of his home, and family crises have left […]

Valley News: Vital Communities enters talks to save town listservs from shutdown. “Talks have started between Vital Communities and a group of Upper Valley residents about preserving the town-specific listservs before the nonprofit pulls the plug…. The organization’s announcement came after it announced last week that it would no longer support the 38 town-specific listservs — where […]

Mission Local: Can this treasured S.F. photography institution cheat death again?. “Hal Fischer says he’s twice rescued SF Camerawork, the nonprofit gallery that has supported the work of experimental photographers for over 50 years, and he’s ready to do it again.”

Mission Local: Can this treasured S.F. photography institution cheat death again?. “Hal Fischer says he’s twice rescued SF Camerawork, the nonprofit gallery that has supported the work of experimental photographers for over 50 years, and he’s ready to do it again.”

Mission Local: Can this treasured S.F. photography institution cheat death again?. “Hal Fischer says he’s twice rescued SF Camerawork, the nonprofit gallery that has supported the work of experimental photographers for over 50 years, and he’s ready to do it again.”

Mission Local: Can this treasured S.F. photography institution cheat death again?. “Hal Fischer says he’s twice rescued SF Camerawork, the nonprofit gallery that has supported the work of experimental photographers for over 50 years, and he’s ready to do it again.”

Mission Local: Can this treasured S.F. photography institution cheat death again?. “Hal Fischer says he’s twice rescued SF Camerawork, the nonprofit gallery that has supported the work of experimental photographers for over 50 years, and he’s ready to do it again.”

Tom’s Hardware: Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under. “There’s light at the end of the tunnel for Nine PBS. We reported last week that the station lost access to 50TB of data representing 70 years of TV history. The issue was that its cloud storage provider went out of business […]

St. Louis Public Radio: Online database of Riverfront Times articles gets more stories and redesign. “Hundreds of Riverfront Times articles that had disappeared after the alternatively weekly newspaper shut down are being added to a database started by St. Louis archivists. Riverfront Times Database includes articles from 2014 to 2024. The database now includes cover stories, cover galleries […]

St. Louis Public Radio: Online database of Riverfront Times articles gets more stories and redesign. “Hundreds of Riverfront Times articles that had disappeared after the alternatively weekly newspaper shut down are being added to a database started by St. Louis archivists. Riverfront Times Database includes articles from 2014 to 2024. The database now includes cover stories, cover galleries […]

St. Louis Public Radio: Online database of Riverfront Times articles gets more stories and redesign. “Hundreds of Riverfront Times articles that had disappeared after the alternatively weekly newspaper shut down are being added to a database started by St. Louis archivists. Riverfront Times Database includes articles from 2014 to 2024. The database now includes cover stories, cover galleries […]

St. Louis Public Radio: Online database of Riverfront Times articles gets more stories and redesign. “Hundreds of Riverfront Times articles that had disappeared after the alternatively weekly newspaper shut down are being added to a database started by St. Louis archivists. Riverfront Times Database includes articles from 2014 to 2024. The database now includes cover stories, cover galleries […]

St. Louis Public Radio: Online database of Riverfront Times articles gets more stories and redesign. “Hundreds of Riverfront Times articles that had disappeared after the alternatively weekly newspaper shut down are being added to a database started by St. Louis archivists. Riverfront Times Database includes articles from 2014 to 2024. The database now includes cover stories, cover galleries […]

The Walrus: Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse. “The corpus is collapsing in real time. This degraded digital space should force a broader understanding of cultural sovereignty. Right now, the debate is framed largely as a fight over whether foreign mega platforms like Netflix, YouTube, or Spotify should support Canadian content. That charged conversation sidesteps the deeper […]

Denver Post: 70 years of St. Louis history is stuck in a Denver data center, PBS station claims. “A St. Louis PBS station says its 70-year archive of programming is stuck in a Denver data center after a cloud storage company cut off the TV station’s access to the 50 terabytes of data this spring. Nine PBS filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Denver District Court seeking the safe return of the data, […]

Stephen Follows: What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all. “Its hand-researched data is the highest quality, tracking box office grosses, budgets, home video and streaming across more than 78,000 films and 236,000 people. It gets north of eight million visitors a year, and is treated as THE definitive authority by journalists, academics, filmmakers, prediction markets, and even […]

Current Affairs: Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?. “From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it.”

Scientific American: History depends on records that weren’t built to last. “Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. Archivists are trying to preserve them before formats go dark or messages disappear without a trace.”

Internet Archive Blog: Preserving the First Draft of History: Reflections from the National Summit on Local News Preservation. “According to the Pew Research Center, 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are already gone and nearly a quarter of news webpages contain at least one broken link. The local record of our communities is vanishing in real time. This urgent challenge is what brought two […]

Daily Nous: Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online. “What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online only, open-access philosophy journal that published articles between 2011 and 2016, the website of which is no longer accessible. The journal […]

Internet Archive Blog: Keep the News in the Wayback Machine. “Fight for the Future has launched an open letter calling on major media organizations to work with the Internet Archive to ensure the news remains preserved and accessible in the Wayback Machine.”

NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]

KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”

Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]

Ars Technica: BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable. “We’ll admit that we weren’t paying enough attention to the state of Anthem—BioWare’s troubled 2019 jetpack-powered open-world shooter—to notice EA’s July announcement that it was planning to shut down the game’s servers. But with that planned server shutdown now just a week away, we thought it was worth alerting […]

Urban Milwaukee: After Shutdown, WisconsinEye Discussing Future With Legislators. “Due to a lack of funding, WisconsinEye halted its livestream coverage of state government on Monday and pulled down its video archive of over 30,000 hours of state government proceedings, candidate interviews and other programming. WisconsinEye launched in 2007 as an independent, nonprofit organization funded […]

In Business Madison: WisEye to end event coverage Dec. 15, shut down video archive. “WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network, a nonprofit organization that broadcasts state capitol events, announced it will end event coverage and take its video archive of over 30,000 hours offline on Dec. 15 due to a lack of funding.”

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