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Sesame Street becomes YouTube's biggest digital archive with 100+ episodes: YouTube positions itself as the largest digital library of Sesame Street content as childhood icon expands streaming footprint beyond Max platform partnership. https://ppc.land/sesame-street-becomes-youtubes-biggest-digital-archive-with-100-episodes/ #SesameStreet #YouTube #DigitalArchive #Streaming #ChildhoodMemories

hello~~ working on organizing my personal digital archive. looking for resources or thoughts on file management particularly for decades worth of photos, documents, and personal digital projects (collage, video etc). what logic do you follow for your folders? do you think your logic is / could be legible to others? if you re-started your folder hierarchy from scratch, what might you do differently?

currently working with a docs/photos dichotomy at the very top level, then largely by year within those. but it gets messy from there.

#filemanagement #digitalarchive #archiving #organization #accessibility #informationaccessibility

RIP Punk Planet magazine. Here's their archive:
https://archive.org/details/punkplanet?lang=en&page=2&sort=date
#punk #zines #1990s #digitalarchive

Digitale Medien stellen neue Herausforderungen an die #Archivierung : #Aufheben reicht nicht für die #Benutzbarkeit? #vldh256 #digitalarchive

"My #research into #Cork’s #Jewish #history started in 2017, when I was writing a #musical #play set in Cork in the early 1900s. The #synagogue had closed the year before. To date, I have interviewed over 50 local residents and Cork-born #Jews and their descendants now living world-wide. After I made my Cork #JewishCulture Virtual Walk #documentary during lockdown, many people contacted me to tell me about their life in Cork’s Jewish community, sending me #memoirs and #photos, which I have recently compiled into a #digitalarchive to be housed in Cork Public #Museum. My #book, Ghosts of #JewishCork – People, Places, Culture, is currently seeking a #publisher."

https://www.echolive.ie/nostalgia/arid-41768795.html

Hi, is there anyone with experience using torrent files as a distributed archiving and preservation strategy in cultural organisations? I'm looking for advice, any example or reference would be helpful, thank you! 🙌

#fedihelp #digitalpreservation #digitalarchive

❄️ ’Tis the season to celebrate with Sierra On-Line’s 1986 "A Computer Christmas." ❄️ Thanks to #softwarepreservation, this retro holiday classic is now a perennial gift for new generations of holiday revelers. 🎄

See all the animated sequences ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/sierra-christmas-card-1986

#DigitalArchive #TechHistory #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Club Lotus turns 70 in 2026. 🟡🟢

Founded by Colin Chapman in 1956, we've spent seven decades connecting Lotus owners and enthusiasts - and we're just getting started.

Swipe through to see our 70th Anniversary identity: the commemorative laurel badge and our original heritage logo, revived in colour and monochrome.

#ClubLotus70 #LotusHeritage #ClassicLotus #LotusCars #ClassicCars #ColinChapman #DigitalArchive #70thAnniversary

"The core technical challenge was clear: How do we allow investigators to move fast while maintaining a forensic chain of custody? A simple screenshot is insufficient for legal or historical proof. We needed a system where an investigator could claim, “at this time and date, I browsed this unique URL which contained precisely this content,“ and be able to back it up with cryptographic proof."

https://dispatch.starlinglab.org/p/pilot-project-on-making-web-preservation

#webarchiving #digitalarchive

"Eighty years after the Nuremberg Trials began, the efforts by prosecutors, judges, and others to seek a measure of justice in the aftermath of monstrous atrocities stand as a landmark moment in the history of law and society."

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-law-school-library-releases-first-complete-set-of-digitized-nuremberg-trials-records/

Direct link to archive: https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu

#Nuremberg #NurembergTrials #DigitalArchive #DigitalPreservation

The large gap in #OShistory was almost closed when a tape labeled #UNIX Edition 4 was rediscovered at the #University of #Utah, #USA.
https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

This #legendary #OS was the first Unix written in #C by #DennisRitchie with #KenThompson, but it got lost over years of digital memory shortages.
#IT #retrocomputing #illustration made in #SVG with #Inkscape #FOSS on #Linux

UNIX Edition 4 magnetic tape Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie vector illustration made with Inkscape, not Adobe Illustrator.

Why you shouldn't rely entirely on the @internetarchive:

A case from the shady world of online casinos: delasport, an IT infrastructure provider for online gambling sites was apparently succeful with deletion request.

When you search for delasport.com on the Wayback Machine, you get "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine": https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/delasport.com

I am wondering how they justified their request

https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/

#digitalarchive #internetarchive #gambling #journalism

A screenshot of the Wayback Machine. In the search field is delasport.com, but no snapshot. Instead the response: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine".

Ah, the #nostalgia of vintage movie posters—perfect for those who pine for the days when "interactive" meant turning a book page. 📚✨ But wait! To access this thrilling digital archive, you'll need to become a #JavaScript wizard. 🧙‍♂️📜 Because nothing says "retro" like modern web technologies. 🙄
https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/search #vintageposters #retro #digitalarchive #HackerNews #ngated

Folks, step right into the mesmerizing time capsule of history! 📸 Months ago, I’ve embarked on an exhilarating journey to organize a staggering 50,000+ image digital photo library, a vibrant tapestry woven from both the digitized echoes of our analog past and the crisp shots of today. This image—a stunning photographic metamorphosis—captures the essence of memories melting together like a warm, nostalgic embrace! 😄 Turning a kind of chaos into a beautifully curated masterpiece! 🎉💡
#PhotoOrganization #Nostalgia #MemoryLane #DigitalArchive #CreativeJourney

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits – School Library Journal

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits

by Kara Yorio, Oct 03, 2025 | Filed in News & Features

The all-volunteer initiative is documenting exhibits at the more than 20 Smithsonian Institution museums and the National Zoo in response to the Trump administration’s announcement that museums’ contents would be subject to review and revision to align with the president’s directive.

When retired Virginia school librarian Mary Anne O’Rourke learned about a project to digitally archive the Smithsonian Institution museums, she immediately wanted to volunteer.

“I spent my career teaching children how to research and look up facts, how to know facts from distortions, and what were good sources? The Smithsonian has been our greatest source,” says O’Rourke, who was a preK–8 librarian for 11 years after being a classroom teacher and working at the Smithsonian Visitor Information Center.

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is an all-volunteer effort to document everything on display at the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, the National Zoo, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Volunteers take photos and videos of exhibits in this crowdsourced archiving endeavor. Organizers call it “Crowd to Cloud” and plan to make the information accessible to the media and public.

The initiative is a response to an August letter sent by the Trump administration to the Smithsonian Institution secretary stating that exhibits were subject to review and revision in an effort to “reflect the unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story.” The letter went on to say it was an effort to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives.”

After learning of the administration’s intentions, Georgetown University history professors Chandra Manning and James A. Millward wanted to take action. Inspired by Save Our Signs—which seeks to document signs and information at National Parks that may be removed by the administration—Manning and Millward sent an email to the university’s history department saying they wanted to find a way to document the Smithsonian exhibits. Upon receiving the email, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, a graduate research assistant at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, immediately proposed possible ways of achieving the goal and offered to help coordinate. Not only is the dual master’s student pursuing a degree in Global, International, and Comparative History, the Smithsonian also holds a special place in her personal history.

“When I was in college, my partner and I were long distance, and we would meet up every other weekend in D.C. and go to the Smithsonian,” Dickinson Goodman says. “They are very personal to me. They’re a big part of my sense of my country, and my sense of my field, and my sense of pride in what it means to be an American—that we can produce these amazing free institutions to the public and to the world. And these institutions hold within them a huge amount of human wisdom and American and world experience that deserve to be accessible.”

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/Citizen-Historians-Smithsonian-creating-digital-Archive-Exhibits

#2025 #America #CitizenHistorians #DigitalArchive #DonaldTrump #Education #Exhibits #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #SchoolLibraryJournal #Science #SLJ #Smithsonian #SmithsonianInstitution #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates