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If African documentary heritage is digitized, how many Africans will be able to benefit?

In the agonizing quest to pin down exactly what happened when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down over Ukraine last week, Web archivists and other digital sleuths are playing an unusual - potentially pivotal - role. Wayback Machine, the nonprofit Web crawler that archives old versions of Web pages, captured evidence last Friday that a pro-Russian group was behind the attacks.

The University of Melbourne Archives is acquiring the archive of Germaine Greer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century and ongoing contributor to current political and social commentary. As publisher, writer and critic Carmen Callil, states, Greer continues to be a "living work-in-progress" - an influential figure in many spheres

Interactive media are highly complex and at high risk for loss as technologies rapidly become obsolete. The Preserving Virtual Worlds project explored methods for preserving digital games and interactive fiction. Major activities included developing basic standards for metadata and content representation and conducting a series of archiving case studies for early video games, electronic literature and Second Life, an interactive multiplayer game.

This commemoration is a world wide project in where Events, research projects and commemorative ceremonies will be taking place during the four years of 2014 to 2018, marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War.

Welcome to the Hubble Heritage Project Information Center. These pages have been designed to stimulate as well as educate the minds of Heritage visitors.

Even under the best of conditions, what kind of immortality does paper offer?

1914: Lubin fire in Philadelphia destroys Oliver Hardy's film debut as well as footage of McKinley?s ambulance leaving the Expo after he was shot. Also lost in this fire Hobart Bosworth's version of The Sea Wolf. 1914- Los Angeles: The lab shared by Keystone and Ince Films has a fire destroying films. 1915- Edison's vault may have had a fire.

Kevin Driedger, author of Library Preservation 2, had a brilliant idea to ask institutions with preservation and conservation responsibilities to post at least one picture a day this week on the theme, "This is what preservation looks like." Everyone tagged their posts with #5DaysOfPreservation. Search the hashtag on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and you will see...

What if you could browse through Facebook from another era like during the Renaissance or Middle Ages? An information time machine: sounds like fiction, right? Not so fast - the Venice Time Machine wants to take you on an interactive virtual journey through the past!

The discovery of that which has been lost or previously unattainable is one of the driving forces behind the archival profession and one of the passions the profession shares with the gaming community. Video game enthusiasts have long been fascinated by unreleased games and "lost levels," gameplay levels which are partially developed but left out of the final release of the game. Since 2006, the Moving Image section of the Library of Congress has served as the custodial unit for video games. In this capacity, we receive roughly 400 video games per year through the Copyright registration process, about 99% of which are physically published console games.

In this issue: Digital Preservation 2014: It's a Thing Preserving Born Digital News LOLCats and Libraries with Amanda Brennan Digital Preservation Questions and Answers End-of-Life Care for Aging, Fragile CDs Education Program updates Interviews with Henry Jenkins and Trevor Blank More on Digital Preservation 2014 NDSA News

21 July 2014 in by Photographer Brooke Shannon In this increasingly digital world, we salute everyone who takes pride in physical collections. For many people, photo albums are one of their most treasured possessions. Others have spent years (and thousands of dollars) building their music and film collections.

Black and white negatives were found by Peter Berry Ottaway, 71, in the attic of his late grandfather's home Hubert Ottaway took the photos while he was a combat engineer in the Territorial Army between 1914 and 1917 He was stationed in northern France and spent the majority of his

The National Archives offers advice on all aspects of the long - term care and preservation of manuscripts. This advisory memorandum contains summary advice for the private owner on preparedness for, and recovery from, disasters which stop short of the total loss or destruction of the records.

Updated July 26, 2014 15:59:50 Curators at the Western Australian Museum are hoping a new exhibition of priceless artefacts will showcase a different side of war-torn Afghanistan. The Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures exhibition includes more than 200 items, some up to 4,000 years old, from Afghanistan's National Museum in Kabul.

Traditional information sources such as books, photos and sculptures can easily survive for years, decades or even centuries but digital items are fragile and require special care to keep them useable. Rapid technological changes also affect digital preservation. As new technologies appear, older ones become obsolete, making it difficult to access older content This video explores the complex nature of the problem, how digital content unlike content on traditional media -- depends on technology to make it available and requires active management to ensure its ongoing accessibility.

Cox Studio has been restoring old and damaged photos for over 35 years.

It is only 25 years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, and there are more than 600 million websites, with some 4,000 domain names registered every hour.

Completing the Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Project The third and final phase of the Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Project (Phase 3) was funded in 2011 by the Department of State with $2.98 million