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Will Prentice is trying to save the British Library's archive of 6.5 million sound recordings – before it's lost forever to decay and dead hardware

This third post in our series on an evolving approach to social media focuses on telling preservation stories.

Copyright law is the primary means by which society preserves and protects valued cultural heritage. There is a clear correlation between that which is protected and that which is valued by society for the continued enjoyment of future generations. However, this truth becomes troubling when it is considered that modern copyright continues to espouse antiquated ideals of acceptable cultural production, to the exclusion of the cultural property of many historically marginalized people groups. This article takes a critical look at copyright law to deconstruct the ways in which historical values and assumptions continue to color the modern protection of cultural creation, thereby confining cultural expression and barring protection to the cultural work of the marginalized.

PUBLIC Annotated Bibliography for Cultural Assessment of Digital Collections  Compiled by the Cultural Assessment Working Group  of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Assessment Interest Group February, 2017 kits/guides that would speak to a more global audience.  Please demarcate any changes b...

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Minimum* Viable Station Documentation   Link to this document: bit.ly/mindigit Please contribute! Contact Ashley Blewer to request write-access to this document.  Blog post for context Minimum Viable Station as Diagram Minimum Viable Station Recipes! See also: The Collection Management System Col...

Today on the blog we’re tackling one of our most frequently asked questions: “Why don’t you digitize everything?” and its related runner-up, “When will you be putting all your records o…

I was one of the original designers of SAMMA, the System for the Automated Migration of Media Assets. Using robotics and custom hardware and software, SAMMA has migrated hundreds of thousands of hours of media, including Holocaust testimonies at the Shoah Foundation, the UN's collection of Rwandan genocide testimonies and decades of news footage from ABC. In 2011, SAMMA received an Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in technical and engineering development.

The New York Philharmonic orchestra is deploying content management and archiving technology to create harmony with the paying public.

The Klencke Atlas is a massive 350-year old bound book that has graced the entrance of the British Library maps room. Now it’s being digitized with the latest technology, and the process is r…

NPR’s audio archive is not a history book, but history is “etched in the voices that gave these decades their vitality.”