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This source explores and outlines the concept of a cultural archive. It examines how different cultures and groups celebrate their heritage and collect their memory through intangible forms of expressions as sources of archival records, such as oral…

The Early Americas Digital Archive by Ralph Bauer is a collection of works that provides access to various forms of literature such as: poems, prose, histories, diaries, journals, and letters written in or about the Americas from 1492 to…

Baylis counters the idea that there are too many digitized historic photographs for public use by stating that there is too little information contextualizing these photographs. Using the Larcom Albums of 19th century Irish prison photographs housed…

This article explores social media as a means of an everyday civilian’s personal archives through survey data. Through this, a deep analysis is made into how social media companies can implement long-term and permanent digital preservation efforts in…

This article reports findings from a survey of 110 writers' personal digital archiving practices. The authors found that most writers neglect digital archival concerns, and consequently, their digital archives consist of poorly managed, highly…

In his introduction to Understanding Digital Humanities, David Berry traces the history of digital humanities—an evolving method and theory of interpreting the effects of digitization and computation on society and culture, while simultaneously…

Besek explains how the collecting and preserving of digital content poses challenges to the intellectual property rights that libraries and archives are use to following. A balance between copyright owners and users is an ongoing process; therefore,…

This report discusses what archives must do in order to provide access to unpublished sound recordings from 1972 and earlier. Unpublished sound recordings may have been created for private use or broadcast, but were not distributed to the public. …

Current teaching, learning and assessment practices can lead students to believe that courses within a programme are self-sufficient and separate. Integrative Learning explores this issue, and considers how intentional learning helps students become…

In the day and age of modern technology, the process for preserving past articles is more important than ever. However, this article focuses on new archival processes for preserving existing archival work. This in hand discontinues old methods of…