#endangeredarchives — Public Fediverse posts

King’s College London: New report offers lessons for preserving cultural heritage in crisis zones. “The report, Digital heritage preservation for vulnerable collections: Reflections on the Sudan Memory project history and inventory, was authored by Dr Laura Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Digital Content Management Education at King’s, alongside Sara El-Nager, Independent Researcher and Editor, […]

King’s College London: New report offers lessons for preserving cultural heritage in crisis zones. “The report, Digital heritage preservation for vulnerable collections: Reflections on the Sudan Memory project history and inventory, was authored by Dr Laura Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Digital Content Management Education at King’s, alongside Sara El-Nager, Independent Researcher and Editor, […]

King’s College London: New report offers lessons for preserving cultural heritage in crisis zones. “The report, Digital heritage preservation for vulnerable collections: Reflections on the Sudan Memory project history and inventory, was authored by Dr Laura Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Digital Content Management Education at King’s, alongside Sara El-Nager, Independent Researcher and Editor, […]

King’s College London: New report offers lessons for preserving cultural heritage in crisis zones. “The report, Digital heritage preservation for vulnerable collections: Reflections on the Sudan Memory project history and inventory, was authored by Dr Laura Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Digital Content Management Education at King’s, alongside Sara El-Nager, Independent Researcher and Editor, […]

King’s College London: New report offers lessons for preserving cultural heritage in crisis zones. “The report, Digital heritage preservation for vulnerable collections: Reflections on the Sudan Memory project history and inventory, was authored by Dr Laura Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Digital Content Management Education at King’s, alongside Sara El-Nager, Independent Researcher and Editor, […]

DanQ: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs. “This week, GlitchyZorua brought to my attention the Ibiblio Icon Browser, a collection of many thousands of GIF icons curated in the 1990s by Gioacchino La Vecchia. Glitchy’s goal was to archive a copy of all of the icons, which was turning out to be… challenging.”

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.”

Adelaide University: Hidden botanical treasures in war-torn Kyiv need global support. “Researchers from Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America have highlighted the importance of the National Herbarium of Ukraine in Kyiv (KW), home to more than 2.3 million plant and fungal specimens…. A new paper published in the journal Taxon outlines both the scientific significance of the […]