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Access restrictions, if done well, are tools for ensuring that as much information as possible is made available as broadly as possible while still respecting and adhering to individual privacy, co…
The papers of members of Congress are part of history. We deserve the opportunity to see them.
By Elena Colon-Marrero and Allison Hughes On October 14, 2014, Princeton University announced it had acquired the papers of author, emeritus faculty member, and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. The pa…
The ethics of archiving stuff off the web w/o consent.
A couple of weeks ago I took part in ‘The Future of Women’s Pasts’ at the University of Leeds, a one day conference that brought together archivists, researchers and activists to reflec…
In 2014, the NC State University Libraries was awarded an EZ Innovation Grant from the State Library of North Carolina to develop a freely available web-based documentary toolkit that publicly documen
Society of American Archivists
We here at the Bentley Historical Library have been using GitHub for quite some time now. (Really, it's only been since May 19th of this yea...
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen that the task I set out for myself this week was to devise a way to describe web archives using the tools available to me: Archivists’ Toolkit, …
"Arches is an innovative open source software system that incorporates international standards and is built to inventory and help manage all types of immovable cultural heritage."
This publication represents OCLC Research efforts over the last seven years to support change in the end-to-end process that results in archival and special collections materials being delivered to interested users. #oclcresearch
Archives are spaces in which materials of historic interest or cultural significance are stored and ordered. Archives have a unique power to capture and…
Gawd, the antique language. EFF YOU NY TIMES.
I had the privilege of participating in The Radcliffe Workshop on Technology and Archival Processing a few weeks back. I was thrilled to be on a great panel with some early career historians and Ma…