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Over the past 16 years, Twitter has amassed an incredible amount of user-generated data which contains a detailed and extensive record of cultural moments. Musk’s takeover threatens these archives.
Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, being digitized 75 years after they were made, offer connections and lessons for Americans of today.
Centuries’ worth of important information is stored on paper – which can decay, burn or get eaten by pests. Peek inside the process of making all that data digital.
Davide Tanasi, a digital archaeologist, thinks it’s a pity when historical artifacts are locked away in storage. He’s working to fix this by sharing them as 3D models.
Forgetting is beneficial for the human brain. But the internet has made it harder to let go of painful or problematic memories.
MySpace users were recently shocked to learn that the company lost 50 million user files. It’s a harsh lesson in not leaving your intellectual property unprotected on the information superhighway.
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 National Library of Australia’s web archive preserves online Australian content dating back to 1996. The next step is to archive platforms such as Facebook and Twitter - but it won’t be easy.
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.
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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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Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of History, University of South Florida
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Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Professor of Film and Media, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, University of Oxford
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Curator of Newsfilm and Military Collections, University of South Carolina
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Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of History, University of Waterloo