CfP: Photo Archives VIII: The Digital Photo Archive. Theories, Practices and Rhetoric
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Call for Papers
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August 15, 2021
CFP: Afterlives of Data, Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus
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Call for Publications
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October 1, 2021
Call for registration: Seminar on Digital Preservation and Education of Cultural Heritage: Asian - European Perspectives (DPECH-AEP)
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Seminar
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July 29, 2021
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Apply now for CCAHA's subsidized Preservation Needs Assessment, Risk Assessment, and Digital Preservation Assessment Programs
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Apply now for CCAHA's subsidized Preservation Needs Assessment, Risk Assessment, and Digital Preservation Assessment Programs
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The Elephant Roundup (Oct. 30 - Nov. 11, 2020)
An occasional newsletter from the editors of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Archiving DH
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)
Executive Guide on Digital Preservation Released
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
Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016
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..."
