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The David Rumsey Map Collection features nearly 50,000 historical maps spanning from 1492 to the present-day. More than simply a repository, the website is an interactive database giving users the ability to download the actual record and create…

Cunningham avers that digital archiving, digital curation, digital libraries, and digital museums are distinctly different functions despite the common conflation of the terms by the public. In this article, he argues that digital archiving should…

Ethnic archiving has evolved and developed based on organizations, communities, collections, and preservation tactics in order to access their cultural heritage. Institutions such as libraries, archives, museums and other areas of documented history…

A good overview regarding the practical aspects of collecting oral histories. The authors state that anyone with the time, resources, and interest can take part in the recording of oral history. There are no age barriers or educational barriers when…

“Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries” is one out of many in a elongated series. This exact version is titled as the Third European Conference Proceedings, published in 1999. The purpose of this text is to enhance the skills of the…

Practice of digital media and preserving photographs and history.

Technology is developing rapidly, and with it, our methods of digital preservation. In the book, Exploring Past Image in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive, the question of film and its preservation is brought to the reader’s mind. Film archives…

This journal covers the topic of Malaysia, and how it is an area in the world where digital preservation is not that strong, which makes any historical heritage that can be found is at risk of being lost. As such, the journal covers cases where they…

The class, titled “Introduction to Literary Study,” helps students build the foundational skills commonly used for the study of literature, including close reading, textual analysis, attention to genre and form, and attention to material and…

Covers pivotal Mexican history as documented in photographs uploaded to a digital medium.