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This article discusses and provides a few tips for preserving today's digital records for generations to come. This seemingly easy task has provided some difficulties to the September 11 Digital Archive Project. The main goal of this joint project is to collect and preserve everything from photos to voicemails that relate to the events of September 11. Dan Cohen provides four main points that may be able to solve some of this issues in this preservation along with tips on how to better this process.

This is an informational page on digital preservation. The page talks about the National Digital Informational Infrastructure and Preservation Program. It's main concern is preserving and making available significant digital content, especially is it is only in digital form.

This is an government website detailing resources and practices that fall into digital preservation. Digital preservation is a growing area with the advancement of technology. The website features sections that include partners, collections, tools showcase, multimedia & publications, meeting & events, and education & training.

This blog is about how to teach digital editions more like a seminar. Digital editions are about pedagody, culture preservation, and interpreting. She uses this term as a broader Digital Humanities method to create a network that uses interpretive knowledge and connected skills to reach a certain audience. By making this teaching more like a graduate seminar students are able to contribute more to the class because they will be more easily self-motivated. Students will understand that there is one instructor and that they contribute to their project while also remembering who the audience is.

The NDIIP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation) twitter account tweeted a link to a video featuring Kari Kraus giving a speech titled "Phylogenetic Futures: Big Data and Design Fiction" at Big Data & Uncertainty in the Humanities hosted at the University of Kansas. Kraus spoke about the application of digital humanities to phylogenetics, or the study of evolutionary relatedness between various groups of organisms. She presents phylogenetics as a part of the big data segment of digital humanities. Her speech details the applications of phylogenetics in digital humanities through examining cultural materials.

This Digital Memory Box is just what it appears to be. An archive filled with electronic multimedia and digital records of the students who participated in the Uprisings of 1976 in South Africa. The purpose is to preserve to records of the Black townships and promote positivity surrounding the incident. Former students are allowed to return and tell their first hand story of the events that took place including pictures.

In this brief blog post, Dan Cohen highlights an interesting issue raised by Cliff Lynch at one of the 2007 CNI task force meetings. According to Cohen, Lynch raised the issue of museums holding on to controversial materials and how the digitization of those materials can allow them to be repatriated, either by undermining the arguments museums make or by addressing their concerns. By creating a digital replica, there is no longer a need to withhold artifacts from their originating cultures.

The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Collection is an archive of audio recordings, documents, film footage, and photographs from the Special Collections Library at Northwestern University. The archive's purpose is to preserve the collection, present it to a wider audience, interpret its significance and importance, and allow users to learn more about the cultural heritage and history in the digital age. It is also functioning as a sort of prototype for an historically-infused digital folk music festival and a research workshop.

This online digital library, also called the "Million Book Collection," provides free online access to a searchable archive of digitized books. The website seeks to make digitally preserved and freely available "all the significant literary, artistic, and scientific works of mankind." This enormous undertaking is supported by Carnegie Mellon University and an extensive list of contributors from around the world.

This website provides information about several programs, websites, and formats that show promise in long-term sustainability of digital information. It also describes formats that they do not believe will be the best option of sustainability. It also covers formats in consideration of copy right laws, collecting the information, and how to adjust a format to fit the Library of Congress recommendations.

After playing around on the Wayback Machine website in class, I wanted to know more about the site. In this article, we see the man behind the creation of the Wayback Machine site and what exactly the site contains. This archive allows for users to browse through over 160 billions webpages, going as far back as 1996, and keeps the internet past preserved in his online archive. This storage system is reliable and effiecient for users and is really quite interesting to browse through some of our favorite and popular sites today.

This blog post by Dan Cohen discusses the collection of digital ephemera, such as twitter posts, and its legitimate relevance to historical analysis. Cohen leans towards supporting the Library of Congress in their decision to take historical artifacts like this seriously, citing examples of thankful historians rejoicing over the preservation of what was thought to be scrap paper. He then goes on to discuss the problem in terms of costs, noting the relatively cheep nature of the digital texts.

An interesting website with the sole intent of informing and involving its viewers. Viewers are able to correct, transcribe, tage and comment digitally uploded information. This information comes from archives of cookbooks, diaries, collections, letters, etc. The website also includes an extensive amont of news, tweets, updates, and contributions via the viewers for the viewers, A great website that really involves its audience. Like a modern day wiki.

This is a neat site created to allow viewers to interact with the archives they come in contact with. ALomost like a modern day wiki. The site contains links that enable the participant to correct, transcribe, or tag and comment of the collections they come across. Some of their collections include cookbooks, diaries, collections, letters, etc. The site also contains news updates, contributions, and tweets to and from the viewers themselves.

DIY History is a website for the public to use to help contribute to preserving diaries, letters, cookbooks, and other handwritten documents by transcribing them and posting them to the database. It also allows these users to go through already machine-transcribed documents to check for errors and make corrections when necessary. The diaries and documents included on this website range from Civil War-era documents, World War II items, and college yearbooks.

The HathiTrust Digital Library is a partnership of research institutions and libraries working to securely preserve historical collections to be accesible long into the future. These collections are open access, and include a wide spectrum of cultures across a variety of different time periods. The partnership has been recently engaged in legal disputes regarding alleged copyright infringement in their Orphan Works Project. In addition to basic access to many of the collections, the HDL offers search functions within the documents that allow for new uses of the texts, such as text mining.

The EBBA Archive is a website with a specific goal in mind in regards to 17th century broadside ballads. The site seeks to make 16th-18th century fully accessible as texts, art, music, and cultural records. Basically the main objective of the EBBA is to transcribe these broadside ballads into usable means that are open, accessible, useful, and applicable to the public.

The English Broadside Ballad Archive is a database of 17th century ballads. These ballads are made available on the website in the form of texts, art, music, and cultural records. The purpose of the database is to preserve the estimated 8,000 surviving ballads from this era for future generations to discover and study again. Several universities have teamed up to work on this archive, include the University of Texas at Dallas.