Digital Preservation
Preserving born-digital and digitized cultural memory, managing technological obsolescence, and sustaining access over time.
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The Technology Changes. The Human Questions Remain: An FIU Conversation on Archives and Oral History
Recovering a Web 2.0 time capsule, revisiting oral history in the AI era, and asking students at FIU what happens to the stories no one thinks to ask about.
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Preservation Technology Podcast: Interviewing the Field as It Changed
What remains is the belief that relationships beyond the walls matter, that cross-disciplinary curiosity matters, and that experimentation matters. Technology can extend the imagination and connect people in ways that allow a shared vision to advance…
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Beyond the Caption: Rediscovering Florida Keys Folk Art at HistoryMiami
How a volunteer metadata project at HistoryMiami brought new context to Brent Cantrell’s 1990 Florida Keys folklife photographs.
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What I Learned the Hard Way About Home Digital Preservation
After a devastating flood destroyed much of his family’s home, Jeff Guin reflects on why photographs and personal records become so important when everything else is at risk. The piece turns that experience into a practical…
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Is Our Digital Lifestyle Leading to a Dark Age for Cultural Heritage?
This early warning about born-digital culture asks a simple but unsettling question: what will future generations actually inherit from lives increasingly documented on hard drives, websites, and social platforms? The piece argues that digital abundance can…
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Archaeology 2.0: Open Context Means Deeper Connections to Broader Audiences
How open archaeological data and digital publishing can connect research with broader audiences and enable reuse beyond individual projects.
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Digital Preservation of Documents at the Library of Congress
Kit Arrington explains how the Library of Congress digitized, preserved, and shared HABS, HAER, and HALS documentation, connecting archival formats, metadata, access, and sustainable digital preservation.
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3D Scanning, Rome Reborn and Virtual Ancient Worlds on Google Earth
Bernard Frischer discusses Rome Reborn, 3D modeling, virtual heritage, born-digital scholarship, Google Earth, and the long-term preservation and public use of complex digital cultural heritage.