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Mukurtu: an online dilly bag for keeping Indigenous digital archives safe
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Mukurtu - Warumungu word meaning 'dilly bag' or a safe keeping place for sacred materials - is an online system helping Indigenous people conserve photos, songs and other digital archives.
The way books are sorted at the library can be highly political, touching upon issues of race and identity.
The National Death Penalty Archive collects documents and paraphernalia behind the thousands of executions that have taken place on American soil.
The media trope negates the work done by archivists, who are often well-aware of the existence of ‘long-lost’ letters, journals and stories.
The story of María invites us to consider how the powerless could assert personal autonomy in their lives and how we can hear traces of the voiceless in the archives.
For centuries, readers have written in the margins of their books to indicate admiration, disagreement or inspiration. Plath was no different.
The Slave Societies Digital Archive documents the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans in the Americas.
Only a small fraction of the data from archaeological fieldwork is made accessible to the public or preserved for future research.
A tiny percentage of museums’ natural history holdings are on display. Very little of these vast archives is digitized and available online. But museums are working to change that.
Fifty years ago, an insurance agent named Paul Simpson was convinced of rampant bias on the evening news. So he embarked on a project to record each broadcast and store them at Vanderbilt University.
Digitized state records help to tell the stories of African-American prisoners in the 19th and 20th century.
Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data every day – so much that it will take years to uncover all the hidden signals buried in the archives.
The Home Office threw away landing documents that are now vital to people trying to prove their right to stay in the UK.
Despite scientists’ initial concerns, federal climate change data sets are still available. But other documents and web pages have changed over the last year.
Wikipedia’s coverage on women is less comprehensive, and its volunteer editor base is mostly male. What can be done to change the numbers?
One hundred years after a strange and devastating pandemic, researchers comb for clues in dusty libraries, church records and long- forgotten books.
Australia’s plan to extend ISP ‘safe harbour’ copyright immunities to cultural institutions avoids more nuanced thinking about the nature and social value of culture, art and education.
Essays On Air: Reading Germaine Greer’s mail
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The Germaine Greer Archive offers a powerful, often amusing, sometimes perplexing glimpse into the lives of people affected by her work, as well as the many faces of Greer herself.
A newly published batch of Ernest Hemingway’s letters could change the way we think about the author’s influences, relationships with other writers and views on race.
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Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Data & Society, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of History, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Curator for History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Ph.D. Student in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor, School of History and International Relations, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Paleontology and Director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
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Senior Lecturer in Law, King's College London
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Professor Emeritus, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
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Humanities Librarian, University of Rochester
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Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County