CfP: Photo Archives VIII: The Digital Photo Archive. Theories, Practices and Rhetoric
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An occasional newsletter from the editors of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
A series of blog posts on the Scholars Lab at the University of Virginia Library discusses the long term maintenance of digital humanities projects:
Archiving DH - Part 1: The Problem (Ammon Shepherd)
Archiving DH - Part 2: The Problem in Detail (Brandon Butler, Ammon Shepherd, Amanda Visconti and Lauren Work)
IFLA (the International Federation of Library Associations) has announced the release of an Executive Guide on Digital Preservation "intended to assist in convincing senior managers, government officials, and policy- and decision-makers of the importance of preserving their digital assets."
IFLA News, May 21, 2019, https://www.ifla.org/node/92184
An interesting story about the problems of digital preservation, especially the preservation of social media:
"Myspace, the once mighty social network, has lost every single piece of content uploaded to its site before 2016, including millions of songs, photos and videos with no other home on the internet.... More than 50m tracks from 14 million artists have been lost..."