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This essay discusses challenges and approaches to scientists archiving, documenting, and sharing their own data.

This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter three of the Organizing and Archiving Digital Photos course presented by lynda.com author Derrick Story. The complete Organizing and Archiving Digital Photos course has a total duration of 2…

In their online article for D-Lib magazine, authors Stirling, Chevallier, and Illien cover issues important to researchers using the web from problems of legitimacy to the functionality of search engines. The authors discuss the changing perceptions…

In Part II of The Future of the Past, Alexander Stiille discusses cultural memory as it relates to the National Archive and the process of digitizing and converting nontextual material to a more stable format. Stille states that, at current staff…

This article focuses on the application of archival theory to create digital representations of history, and how this has created a new theory within digital humanities scholarship termed digital historiography—a theory which focuses on analyzing and…

In this article, the authors create a methodology to help deal with the integrity of long-term digital archives using cryptographic techniques. The first take create a token system for each item in the archive and then a key to identify and regulate…

Solberg suggests that new digital environments have the “potential to reorient us—both physically and conceptually,” allowing new methods and possibilities for research, and new opportunities to socio-politically reposition the field of rhetoric and…

Web Archive Processing by Mike Smorul is a pdf document that describes different types of archiving strategies and how they work. It describes the indexing of various websites and how they tackle managing a large quantity of websites within the…

Abstract Artist and art subject file collections contain important primary source ephemera for art historical research—but what happens when the ephemera are online? The National Museum of Women in the Arts has been web archiving art-related online…

In “Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace,” Renée Sentilles argues, “Our relationship with sources changes as they become more accessible, more abundant, and less tangible" (136). Sentilles discusses the usability of digital archives, particularly…