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The NEH Office of Digital Humanities joined together with the Museum of the City of New York in October to put on a panel presentation. This presentation was over the museum's effort to create a massive collection of digitized photographs. The presentation also covered how using technology can help cultural heritage organizations to enrich an improve access to collections of cultural heritage items.

This post highlights a project by Sanna Dullaway to recolor old black-and-white photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to recreate the vibrant, colorful worlds that we usually imagine in sepia-tone. In addition to the praise of the project, Yvonne Seale questions if it takes away our historical imaginations and violates the artifacts' historical integrity. Either way, she concedes that this project makes the past more tangible to newer and younger audiences used to seeing everything in color and gets them thinking about history.

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.

With the use of digitizing media, NASA and Internet Archive are teaming up to scan films and photographs into an online database where their information can be stored and accessed with easy use. Making this kind of information available online, NASA believes, is important to catagorizing information and storing it for effiecient use. Internet Archive will be using a new system where the media catagorized by historical significance.

Creative Commons is a website, or tool, that you can use to create your our copyright restrictions. Instead of have a traditional blanket copyright, creative commons allows publishers/creators personalize the copyright and protection of their material. For example, a person who uses Creative Commons to set up restrictions for their photographs can allow other the repost and cite his photos. However, it restricts companies from using it in ads (like on facebook).