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Vallier contends archives are not “value-neutral institutions” and due to their inherent power to represent and preserve historic artifacts in support of their institutional sponsors, archiving marginalized populations is particularly challenging.…

Uimonen discusses the Nordic Museum in Stockholm’s #MeToo collection and the public submissions to the collection. It also “analyses the museum’s rationale for collecting what is considered to be difficult cultural heritage.” Unlike most archives, it…

This book examines various approaches to digital preservation of Indigenous history, culture, and communication. Historically, those aspects are passed orally through family as opposed to officially recorded and stored, risking the loss of…

“RB203: From Digital Uprising to Digital Society” is a podcast episode published and released by The Platform on June 1st, 2012. This podcast will be an exemplary addition to the archiving website because it takes a real life historical event and…

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 study examines Our Marathon , which is a digital historiography website created in response to the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15th, 2013. As a participatory archive, Our Marathon is an example of community literacy practice. This…

Historypin is an archive that uses a collaborative approach to create stronger ties with local history. Users—either individuals or institutions —upload records and denote the location of the object by pinning it using Google Maps. These records can…

The article looks at efforts to preserve the contents of the Internet for future generations. Particular focus is given to the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) project, led by computer scientist Kaylev Leetaru, and to the…

This article houses a study that goes into the concept of digital curation on students’ smartphones. This is a recent study that emphasizes the importance of modern-day evaluations of technology and archiving resources that are made available to…

Video testimonies of Holocaust survivor stories are, in themselves, an archival medium. The conventions of shooting and distributing video convey an immediacy and an absence of cinematic artifice that reveal rather than obscure the unconscious and…