The Wales Broadcast Archive in Aberystwyth brings together the archives of the BBC, ITV and S4C under one roof.
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The national broadcaster has a special role in preserving audio and visual materials, not least to underpin its own reportuing
During the coronavirus pandemic, digitizing archives can help increase access. But in addition to the labour and financial costs, issues of privacy, copyright and resources need to be considered.
In a year of lockdowns, The Impossible Project gives life to shows that never reached the stage. More than 150 events are listed on this online archive, and sadly, more are likely to come.
Policymakers should mandate Canada’s national library to archive the entire Canadian web domain so future reserachers can make sense of 2020 and ongoing responses to the pandemic.
There are many gems of female filmmaking in the archives that have been overlooked and should be made accessible to contemporary audiences
Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, being digitized 75 years after they were made, offer connections and lessons for Americans of today.
Centuries’ worth of important information is stored on paper – which can decay, burn or get eaten by pests. Peek inside the process of making all that data digital.
As our societies lose paper trails and increasingly rely on digital information, historians, and their grasps of context, will become more important than ever.
Hidden for decades in a vault at the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, the photographs depict a regime fixated on establishing order, meting out punishment and stoking nationalism.
Mukurtu: an online dilly bag for keeping Indigenous digital archives safe.
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Mukurtu - Warumungu word meaning 'dilly bag' or a safe keeping place for sacred materials - is an online system helping Indigenous people conserve photos, songs and other digital archives.
The National Library of Australia’s web archive preserves online Australian content dating back to 1996. The next step is to archive platforms such as Facebook and Twitter - but it won’t be easy.
In 1811 a former slave named Henry Christophe anointed himself ‘First Monarch’ of the ‘New World.’ For 10 years, he ruled over a part of modern-day Haiti, becoming a global media sensation.
Digital identity assets, such as property records and Parliamentary proceedings, embody who and what Australia is as a nation. We need to do more to protect them.
The Slave Societies Digital Archive documents the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans in the Americas.
In a time when women were expected to be silent, no topic was off limits for Pulter, who penned verses about politics, science and loss. Her manuscript was just published in a free digital archive.
A tiny percentage of museums’ natural history holdings are on display. Very little of these vast archives is digitized and available online. But museums are working to change that.
Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data every day – so much that it will take years to uncover all the hidden signals buried in the archives.
An online database explores the nearly 36,000 slave voyages that occurred between 1514 and 1866.
In less than a decade, most people won’t be able to play a VHS tape anymore. Let’s farewell the humble tape, and celebrate the archives finding their way to digitisation and YouTube.
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Professor of History, University of Waterloo
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Manager Repository Services, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Dean, UNSW Art & Dean, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Education, Charles Darwin University
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Director, Digital Productivity Flagship, CSIRO
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Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia
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Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Glasgow
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Chief Investigator, Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages, Charles Darwin University
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Project manager - Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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University of Wollongong
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Chief Executive Officer, Museums Victoria
