#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, […]

Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]

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 […]

Council on Library and Information Resources: CLIR Awards Nearly $1 Million in Recordings at Risk Grant Funds. “The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to announce the thirteenth cohort of projects for Recordings at Risk, CLIR’s program that funds the digitization of rare and unique audio and audiovisual materials. An independent review panel selected 24 projects […]

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 […]

Ohio History Connection: Listen, Watch and Connect with LGBTQ+ History. “In 2025, the Ohio History Connection (OHC) was awarded a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to preserve fragile magnetic media – U-Matic, VHS, audio cassettes and 3/4” audiotape – that were reaching the end of their lifespan. The grant made it possible to work with […]

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.”

Hackaday: It’s Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy. “Copy That Floppy! only briefly touches on the most ideal situation — that is, buying a USB floppy drive and making copies of the bog standard 3.5 inch disks you might come across. It then moves right on into more advanced topics, such as interfacing with less common drive types, how to safely clean floppies, and the use of advanced […]

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.”

The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when stacked haphazardly in the un-airconditioned corners of Lagos living rooms or the labyrinthine, corrugated-iron warehouses of Alaba International Market. As I write this, thousands of original films from the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]

I mentioned the grant for this project years ago but not when the project launched: HBCU Radio Preservation. From the Who We Are page: “HBCU radio stations train students entering broadcasting careers and provide an outlet for communities to engage on issues while reveling in the sounds of the Black diaspora. Their rhythms and stories demand to be heard. And yet, the original programming […]

University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]

Popular Science: The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks. “In collaboration with retro computing enthusiasts who have built specialized floppy-imaging tools, [Leontien Talboom]’s recovered data from hundreds of historically significant disks in the library’s collection—including previously inaccessible lectures by physicist Stephen Hawking.”

The Concordian: Concordia’s Visual Collections Repository shrinks services amid funding deficits. “Concordia’s Visual Collection Repository (VCR) has faced significant budget cuts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, making it difficult for the repository to sustainably provide access to its resources. The repository is the custodian of diverse archival moving image collections — housed in […]

Without Why: The Hubert Dreyfus Audio Archive Project. “A massive trove of legendary lectures by philosopher Hubert L. Dreyfus is currently confined to aging cassette tapes in a closet in the Berkeley Hills. With your support, we can build a professionally curated audio archive that preserves this irreplaceable material and makes it accessible to new generations of listeners. Dreyfus’s ideas […]

How-To Geek: Why digital photos from the 2000s are disappearing (and what you can do about it). “It might not feel like it,but digital photography is still relatively new. Yet once the digital shutterbug bit, everyone was taking photos all the time. The thing is, those digital photos from the early 2000s are at risk of disappearing forever—here’s why.”

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