Podcasts about digital archives

“You can file it in our archives, Watson” [RETI]    North America is home to a number of public collections, libraries, museums, and archives that hold treasures related to Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Not least among them is the Toronto Public Library. Home to the famed Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, the TPL is a great friend to Sherlockians and Doyleans everywhere and regularly welcomes visitors to view and research its more than 25,000 items related to Conan Doyle. And curator Jessie Amaolo joined us to talk about the digital offerings of the collection. What can an online researcher find in the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection? What's been digitized already and what's coming up? Jessie talks about all of this, plus some of unique and wonderful surroundings of the Toronto Public Library. Speaking of Sherlockian gatherings, we share June events in "The Learned Societies" segment, Madeline Quinones is back with A Chance of Listening, and the Canonical Couplet quiz tests your Sherlock Holmes knowledge, with something from the vaults for the winner.  Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by June 14, 2025 at 11:59 a.m. EST. All listeners are eligible to play. Don't forget to become a  of the show on the platform of your choice ( | ). We have extra material from this show available only to supporters.   Leave I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere a five-star rating on  and ; listen to us .     Sponsors  celebrates 10 years of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories with its final collection. Get your volumes today!   Would you care to advertise with us? You can find . Let's chat!   Links Other episodes mentioned:   The Learned Societies:  A Chance of Listening: Find all of our relevant links and social accounts at .     And would you consider leaving us a rating and or a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Goodpods? It would help other Sherlockians to find us.   Your thoughts on the show? Leave a comment below, send us an email (comment AT ihearofsherlock DOT com), call us at 5-1895-221B-5. That's (518) 952-2125.    

Welcome to another episode of Sanford Says! Today, we're bringing you an exciting preview of an event celebrating the rich history of one of Sanford's most historic neighborhoods. On Saturday, February 8th, the History Harvest event will occur at Hopper Academy in the heart of the Historic Georgetown community.To help us dive into the details, we're joined by two amazing guests, Dr. Connie Lester, from the UCF RICHES Digital Archiving Project, who is here to share how this initiative is preserving the history of Georgetown and other local communities through digital archives.We're also thrilled to have Ms. Julia Brunson, Chair of the Historic Georgetown Steering Team, a long-time community leader and volunteer who has dedicated herself to preserving and sharing Georgetown's history for years.Stay tuned as we explore the history and importance of the Georgetown community, the History Harvest event, and how you can participate in this special day to help preserve Sanford's legacy.

In episode 349 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is reflecting on the big and small things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography. Mentioned in this episode: www.kinfolk.com Dr.Grant Scott After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby's, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018. Scott continues to work as a photographer, writer and filmmaker and is the Subject Coordinator for both undergraduate and post graduate study of photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England. Scott's book Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, Orphans Publishing, is now on sale. © Grant Scott 2025

Darnley discusses the recent cyberattack that targeted one of the internet's most important digital archives. We'll explore how hackers infiltrated the Wayback Machine, compromising the personal data of millions and threatening the integrity of historical records stored online. Could this hack rewrite internet history?Click here to send future episode recommendationSupport the showSubscribe now to Darnley's Cyber Cafe and stay informed on the latest developments in the ever-evolving digital landscape.

Join us in this special episode as we explore UCL's evolved Grand Challenge: Data-Empowered Societies. In this podcast, you'll hear from UCL staff about the transformative potential of this Grand Challenge, ethical data practices, and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration. This episode features UCL colleagues, including: • Prof. Allison Littlejohn, Professor of Learning Technology and Director of the UCL Knowledge Lab • Prof. Jack Stilgoe, Professor of Science and Technology, Department of Science & Technology Studies • Dr Jin Gao, Lecturer in Digital Archives, Department of Information Studies • Samantha Ahern, Senior Digital Research Trainer, Digital Skills Development For more information on how to get involved, visit our website or contact us at grand-challenges@ucl.ac.uk Producers: Huda Ahmed, Lisa Juangbhanich, Phil Mason Narrator: Huda Ahmed

Chilly Chat No. 3This week we are discussing The Dead Files “Arctic Wrath” (Season 1 Episode 21) which aired July 19, 2012.This episode had a lot of similarities to Stephen King stories which two out of three of us really like. We also had fun roasting Dusty McGee.We talked about the overuse of the word “elderly”, what we read on the toilet before cell phones, and we imagined polar bears vacationing in the Hot Springs.So, grab your Frozen Hot Chocolate, and join us where… The Activity Continues.Content Warning:We didn't find anything we thought deserved a content warning, but we still swear. The Activity Continues is a paranormal podcast where soul friends, Amy, Megan, and AP chat about pets, true crime, ghost stories, haunts, dreams, and other paranormal stuff including the TV show, The Dead Files. We also sometimes interview interesting people, whether it be a paranormal professional, a Dead Files client, or a listener with spooky stories. This episode was recorded on July 1, 2024, and released on August 15, 2024. Episode links:The Bat Scene from The Shining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtI0uG6tjewWhitter, Alaska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier,_AlaskaThe Dead Files Official Podcast Arctic Wrath: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5JkItICsuZA7IY5ohPyKPU?si=nUpJkjXPR_eMg6nmgl3nSgArticle on the helicopter accident https://www.accidents.app/summaries/accident/20020702X01040Articles about the hotel's history:https://www.litsitealaska.org/index.cfm?section=Digital-Archives&page=Industry&cat=Tourism&viewpost=2&contentid=2730http://fairbanks-alaska.com/arctic-circle-hot-springs.htm#:~:text=In%201905%2C%20Cassius%20Monohan%20homesteaded,bought%20the%20resort%20in%201980.https://www.sketchesofalaska.com/2013/01/a-haunting-end-to-life-at-circle-hot.htmAP's suggested chili recipehttps://dishingouthealth.com/slow-cooker-sweet-potato-black-bean-chili/Frozen Hot Chocolate recipehttps://iambaker.net/frozen-hot-chocolate/for Ai Photos https://www.fotor.com/referrer/1ygaknya Disclaimer:This podcast is in no way affiliated with Warner Brothers, HBOMax, the Travel Channel, Painless TV, or the TV show The Dead Files or any of its cast or crew. We're just fans that love the show and want to build a community of like-minded people who would enjoy hanging out and discussing the episodes and similar content. Credits:Hosted by: Amy Lotsberg, Megan Simmons, and Amy PiersakProduction, Artwork, and Editing: Amy Lotsberg at Collected Sounds Media, LLC.Theme song. “Ghost Story” and segment music by Cannelle https://melissaoliveri.com Socials and other goodies:Our website, https://www.theactivitycontinues.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theactivitycontinues Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theactivitycontinues/ Reddit: https://new.reddit.com/r/TheActivityContinues/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheActivityCont   Blog for extras: https://www.theactivitycontinues.com/blog/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theactivitycontinuesYouTube: https://bit.ly/TAC_videos Newsletter sign-up: http://eepurl.com/hWnBLL SEND US YOUR PARANORMAL STORIES!Email: theactivitycontinues@gmail.com and maybe it will be read on the show!Or visit our website, https://www.theactivitycontinues.com/ and click on the microphone icon to leave a message and maybe it will be played on the show! BE OUR GUEST!Are you a The Dead Files client, or a paranormal professional, and would be interested in being interviewed on our show? Let us know by filling out our guest form:https://www.theactivitycontinues.com/guests/intake/ Affiliates/SponsorsPlease see our Store page for all the links for all our current affiliates. https://www.theactivitycontinues.com/store/ Thank you for listening, take care of yourselves. We'll see you next week!Become a Patron, join our Ghosty Fam! https://www.patreon.com/theactivitycontinuesRemember to join our Ghosty Fam over on Patron, https://www.patreon.com/theactivitycontinues/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/tac/donations

Archives New Zealand's shutting down its digital archiving programme.  It's part of an initiative to digitise historically significant images and documents.  But the agency says it's been unable to secure further funding, and it will have to cut at least three jobs.  Historian Paul Moon told Mike Hosking that this is important work and should remain.  He says the Government should cobble together the small amount of funding needed to keep it going.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Featuring perspectives from educators, undergraduates, and archivists who are affiliated with community and institutional archives, the contributions to Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives (U Michigan Press, 2023) explore efforts to deconstruct and transform the institutional authority of the archive and describe new possibilities for archives in education. In this conversation, editors Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes speak about the book's genesis, their framing of critical digital archives, and the broad range of institutions, labor, and individuals connected to projects described in the book. This discussion also touches on how factors including supportive leadership and space for experimentation create opportunities for instructors and students to challenge the authority of the archive. Read an open access edition of this book on the Lever Press website. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Featuring perspectives from educators, undergraduates, and archivists who are affiliated with community and institutional archives, the contributions to Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives (U Michigan Press, 2023) explore efforts to deconstruct and transform the institutional authority of the archive and describe new possibilities for archives in education. In this conversation, editors Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes speak about the book's genesis, their framing of critical digital archives, and the broad range of institutions, labor, and individuals connected to projects described in the book. This discussion also touches on how factors including supportive leadership and space for experimentation create opportunities for instructors and students to challenge the authority of the archive. Read an open access edition of this book on the Lever Press website. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

Featuring perspectives from educators, undergraduates, and archivists who are affiliated with community and institutional archives, the contributions to Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives (U Michigan Press, 2023) explore efforts to deconstruct and transform the institutional authority of the archive and describe new possibilities for archives in education. In this conversation, editors Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes speak about the book's genesis, their framing of critical digital archives, and the broad range of institutions, labor, and individuals connected to projects described in the book. This discussion also touches on how factors including supportive leadership and space for experimentation create opportunities for instructors and students to challenge the authority of the archive. Read an open access edition of this book on the Lever Press website. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

Featuring perspectives from educators, undergraduates, and archivists who are affiliated with community and institutional archives, the contributions to Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives (U Michigan Press, 2023) explore efforts to deconstruct and transform the institutional authority of the archive and describe new possibilities for archives in education. In this conversation, editors Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes speak about the book's genesis, their framing of critical digital archives, and the broad range of institutions, labor, and individuals connected to projects described in the book. This discussion also touches on how factors including supportive leadership and space for experimentation create opportunities for instructors and students to challenge the authority of the archive. Read an open access edition of this book on the Lever Press website. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Featuring perspectives from educators, undergraduates, and archivists who are affiliated with community and institutional archives, the contributions to Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives (U Michigan Press, 2023) explore efforts to deconstruct and transform the institutional authority of the archive and describe new possibilities for archives in education. In this conversation, editors Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes speak about the book's genesis, their framing of critical digital archives, and the broad range of institutions, labor, and individuals connected to projects described in the book. This discussion also touches on how factors including supportive leadership and space for experimentation create opportunities for instructors and students to challenge the authority of the archive. Read an open access edition of this book on the Lever Press website. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Featuring perspectives from educators, undergraduates, and archivists who are affiliated with community and institutional archives, the contributions to Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives (U Michigan Press, 2023) explore efforts to deconstruct and transform the institutional authority of the archive and describe new possibilities for archives in education. In this conversation, editors Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes speak about the book's genesis, their framing of critical digital archives, and the broad range of institutions, labor, and individuals connected to projects described in the book. This discussion also touches on how factors including supportive leadership and space for experimentation create opportunities for instructors and students to challenge the authority of the archive. Read an open access edition of this book on the Lever Press website. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/digital-humanities

Shelby joins us to read selections from Lexington's Fallout Shelter Plan from 1965. The plan was created in a pilot program funded by Stanford Research Institute and the Federal Offices of Civil Defense to maximize survivability using shelters in the event of an atomic attack. One city in each state developed a plan, and Lexington was the representative city for Kentucky. The full plan can be found in the Library's Digital Archives.

Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. A photographer, documentarian and digital storyteller. He returns to the Bodleian library to muse on his life and archive and the power of photography. Photographer Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. A photographer, documentarian and digital storyteller, he has spent his life recording British society, challenging the status quo by working in a collaborative way to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life through pictures, audio recordings and short movies.   Fifty years ago, photographer Daniel Meadows set out in The Free Photographic Omnibus, a Leyland Titan double-decker remodelled as his mobile home, darkroom and gallery. He drove it around towns and villages and offered free portraits to the people he met on his travels. The photographs became a vast and beautiful archive, now safely deposited in the Bodleian Library. In this talk, Daniel Meadows triumphantly returns to muse on his life and work and the power of photography. He shows examples of his archive and reflects on a lifetime of creative work.   The Bodleian Library acquired the full Daniel Meadows Archive in 2018.

In this episode we chat with Ofri Cnaani, an artist and associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Artists are doing amazing things in tech spaces, not just working with tech but also using art to explore how our world is infused with data. Ofri discusses some of her projects with us, including her investigation of the fire that destroyed the National Museum of Brazil in 2018, which prompted a massive crowdsourced appeal for photos of museum exhibits taken by visitors, and her Statistical Bodies project, which humorously looks at what kind of data about bodies aren't yet useful, like jealousy and social fatigue, or what is impossible to capture about the body. 

Telling the hidden stories of 2SLGBTQ+ Newfoundlanders and Labradorians throughout our history. We're joined by Sarah Worthman, the executive director of the NL Queer Research Initiative, to tell us more about their digital archives.

Preserving and commemorating the 2SLGBTQ+ histories of Newfoundland and Labrador... That's the mission statement for the NL Research Initiative. The non-profit organization is focused on telling queer stories, empowering storytellers and providing academic workshops and mentoring. The group is about to launch the NL Queer Archive. Sarah Worthman is the executive director of the NL Queer Research Initiative.

In 1925, the town of Nome in rural Alaska found itself facing a potentially catastrophic outbreak of diphtheria. Almost completely cut off from the rest of the world by the harsh Winter, the only way to get medicine in was via a relay of 20 teams of sled dogs. The inspiration for the cartoon film Balto, this is the true story of the Nome Serum Run. This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 05:18 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report)Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodLive show tickets: https://dogoonpod.com/live-shows/ Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/Check out our merch store: https://do-go-on-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Check out our AACTA nominated web series: http://bit.ly/DGOWebSeries​ Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasDo Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present. REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:Icebound The Greatest Dog Story Ever Told (Discovery Channel)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQbJ1PNTZyo&t=10s https://www.baltostruestory.net/serumrunsynopsisp2.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20101127233139/http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=Digital-Archives&page=Land-Sea-Air&cat=Dog-Mushing&viewpost=2&ContentId=2559 https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/togo/ https://www.maruskiyas.com/nome-alaska Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Real life archivist (and our editor!) Allison Mills tells us how we preserve the internet, prompting Amanda to have an existential crisis about memory. Then, we return to the "maybe NFTs are bad, actually" corner with an update on Metabirkins, the overpriced NFTs of the overpriced handbags, which met their fateful end in an historic court ruling. Links Metabirkins: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/hermes-gets-win-over-metabirkins-in-first-nft-trademark-trial Loewe Howl's Moving Castle: https://www.loewe.com/usa/en/loewe-x-howls-moving-castle/discover-the-collection Allison :3 https://allisonmillswrites.com/ MERCH! https://wowiftrue.com/merch/ Find Us Online  Twitter: https://twitter.com/wowiftruepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wowiftrue Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wowiftrue Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wowiftrue Website: https://wowiftrue.com/ Email: wowiftruepod@gmail.com About Us  Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Eric Silver, and our production is by Allison Mills and David Newtown. 

Modernization has been a keyword for agencies throughout government in the 21st century. Paper records are a big part of the digitization effort, but what if your agency's role is to be a steward of the preservation and documentation of government and historical records? In the case of the national archives and records administration, it means that the agency has an extra responsibility to make its work accessible to the public and be responsible in its digital record preservation of records. As part of GovExec Media's Genius Machines event series recently, Nextgov Senior editor Aaron Boyd spoke to NARA Chief Innovation Officer Pamela Wright, about how the agency is modernizing. In this episode, you'll hear part of their conversation about NARA as it remakes itself into a digital-first agency. *** Follow GovExec on Twitter! https://twitter.com/govexec

In this episode, Bob meets San Diego City Clerk Liz Maland, Archives Program Manager Sam Ely, and Archives Supervisor Anne Miggins. They discuss the history of the City Archives, the Digital Archives, and the 4th Annual Archives Month series of events. Bob also visits the Archives in person and learns about preservation measures and sees some really cool (like, really really cool) artifacts and historical documents. Office of the City ClerkArchivesDigital Archives4th Annual Archives Month (use this link to sign up for tours and lectures) 

In this episode, Columbia literature curator Lina Moe sits down with Trevor Owens, the head of Digital Content Management at the Library of Congress. Trevor is the first person to hold this position because it's new— in fact, digital content management is new to most institutions. Lina and Trevor discuss the many, sometimes contradictory, challenges of dealing with digital content. How do we keep the things we want to preserve, but get rid of things that inadvertently get swept into digital archives—like personal, sensitive, or even offensive information? Lina's conversation with Trevor is wide-ranging, covering topics including digital forensic sleuthing, recovering overwritten data on wiped hard drives, humanities verses computer science training for librarians, and the overlooked labor that keeps libraries going. Despite working at one of the largest repositories in the country, Trevor also brought up the importance of preservation at smaller community archives, like those in tribal communities. Finally, Lina and Trevor discus the “more product less process” movement within archives, including the ethical questions raised by archival acquisitions like Stanford's 4chan collection. Overdue Conversations is a podcast about the ways archives inform our discussions around history, literature, and politics. From digital publishing to reparative justice, climate change to public health, this series of overdue conversations takes archival documents out of the stacks and into the public forum to consider how collecting practices, selective reading, and erasure of past knowledge informs and distorts contemporary debates. Music is by Poddington Bear via the Free Music Archive used under Creative Commons license. Overdue tile design by Amy Howden-Chapman. Researched and produced by Lina Moe and Thai Jones with assistance by Amanda Martin-Hardin.

Guest: Robert Matheson, Owner of First NFT Museum @NFTmuseumSC James Crawford, project lead for SuperSistersNFT @inkscribe It is easy to hear the passion in Robert's voice when he shares why he opened the first NFT museum in North America.  This interview highlights his own personal interest as an artist, why he joined the NFT space, and how he is making the movement more accessible to the everyday citizen.  Joining the conversation is writer, marital artist, and father of four, James Crawford. James found Robert's museum nestled in Newberry, SC and couldn't believe that his home state was on the cutting edge of this digital era. As project lead for an upcoming NFT launch, James offers the perspective of someone who is diving deep in this emerging technology space. This conversation was powerful, compelling and thought provoking.  From exploring the unfolding digital renaissance unfolding at the moment to discussing the creator economy that is changing the paradigm of the “starving artist”, this interview will give you a deeper perspective. Robert talks about the relationship we all have with art while discussing with James and I the hyper-cycle of growth this Web 3.0 version of the internet.  Don't shy away from learning more about this exciting new landscape.  This episode is philosophically worth your time just to stay relevant in the days of development of the “digital archives of the human experience.”  The future story of humanity is being written today! Learn more about the NFT museum: www.NonFungibleTokenMuseum.org; www.NewberryMade.com; www.RobertMatheson.com

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Steven Roberts about digitizing media, photography, and retro computing. Site/Blog/Newsletter (https://www.reality2cast.com) FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/reality2cast) Twitter (https://twitter.com/reality2cast) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdvdT3quikpi9sd5SxTGk3Q) Mastodon (https://linuxrocks.online/@reality2cast) Special Guest: Steven Roberts.

November 3 on Iowa's Newsworthy Past unravels as follows. Mitchell County Press And The Osage Journal (Osage) 11/3/1909. Osage's store windows ; Found dead in road ; Air ship follows train ; House struck by lightning ; Council meeting ; Lost. Digital Archives of the Osage Public Library Made accessible by the Osage Public Library http://osage.advantage-preservation.com/ Music: Brendan Lee Spengler

November 1 on Iowa's Newsworthy Past unravels as follows. Stuart Locomotive (Stuart) 11/1/1875. Too much money ; Removal of a tumor weighing 35 pounds ; Hook and Ladder company ; Local sparks. Digital Archives of the Stuart Iowa Library. Made accessible by the Stuart Public Library. http://stuart.advantage-preservation.com/ Music: Brendan Lee Spengler

October 31 on Iowa's Newsworthy Past unravels as follows. The Villisca Review (Villisca) 10/31/1912. Last clue proves worthless ; More globe trotters ; Lecture November 6 ; Will finish work this week ; Hallowe'en parties. Digital Archives of the Villisca Public Library. Made accessible by the Villisca Public Library. http://villisca.advantage-preservation.com/ Music: Brendan Lee Spengler

Head of Digital Archives Katherine Fisher demystifies digital archives and explains why items are not always available online.

In 1911 English sisters Claire and Dora Williamson began consulting a Seattle "fasting specialist" named Linda Burfield Hazzard. As they underwent her brutal treatments, the sisters found themselves caught in a web of manipulation and deceit. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of the Williamsons' ordeal and the scheme it brought to light. We'll also catch a criminal by the ear and puzzle over a prohibited pig. Intro: During World War II, the United States circulated specially printed currency in Hawaii. Reversing an artwork in a mirror alters its aesthetic effect. Sources for our feature on Linda Burfield Hazzard: Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest, 1997. Linda Burfield Hazzard, Fasting for the Cure of Disease, 1908. Linda Burfield Hazzard, Scientific Fasting: The Ancient and Modern Key to Health, 1927. Steven Chermak and Frankie Y. Bailey, Crimes of the Centuries: Notorious Crimes, Criminals, and Criminal Trials in American History, 2016. Teresa Nordheim, Murder & Mayhem in Seattle, 2016. Bess Lovejoy, "The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death," smithsonianmag.com, Oct. 28, 2014. Terence Hines, "A Gripping Story of Quackery and Death," Skeptical Inquirer 21:6 (November-December 1997), 55. Dorothy Grant, "Look Back Doctor," Medical Post 40:16 (April 20, 2004), 28. "The Hazzard Murder Trial," Northwest Medicine 4:3 (March 1912), 92. "Dr. Linda Hazzard Is Given Pardon," Oregon Daily Journal, June 4, 1916. "Woman Fast Doctor Released on Parole," Oakland [Calif.] Tribune, Dec. 21, 1915. "Glad She Is Going Says Mrs. Linda Hazzard," Tacoma [Wash.] Times, Jan. 6, 1914. "Starved to Death," [Sydney] Globe Pictorial, Feb. 14, 1914. "Dr. Linda Hazzard Must Serve Term in the Penitentiary," Seattle Star, Dec. 24, 1913. "Mrs. Linda Hazzard Must Go to Prison According to Supreme Court Ruling," Tacoma [Wash.] Times, Aug. 13, 1913. "Sister Describes Treatment," Washburn [N.D.] Leader, Jan. 26, 1912. "'Starvation Cure' Victim on the Stand," Wichita [Kan.] Daily Eagle, Jan. 21, 1912. "Tells How Mrs. Hazzard Treated Them at Ollala," Tacoma [Wash.] Times, Jan. 20, 1912. "Blames Doctors' Jealousy," New York Times, Aug. 7, 1911. "Starvation Cure Fatal," New York Times, Aug. 6, 1911. "Investigate Woman Doctor," New York Times, July 31, 1911. "The State of Washington, Respondent, v. Linda Burfield Hazzard, Appellant," Washington Reports, Volume 75: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Washington, August 12, 1913 - October 9, 1913, 1914. "Linda Burfield Hazzard: Healer or Murderess?", Washington State Archives, Digital Archives (accessed Jan. 24, 2021). Listener mail: Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, "United States of Climate Change: Missouri Under Water," Weather Channel, Nov. 9, 2017. "German Police Identify Burglar by His Earprints," Spiegel International, April 30, 2012. "Ear Print Analysis," Wikipedia, accessed Jan. 28, 2021. "Ear Print Analysis," Encyclopedia.com (accessed Jan. 28, 2021). Ayman Abaza et al., "A Survey on Ear Biometrics," ACM Computing Surveys, March 2013. Mit Katwala, "The Bonkers Plan to Foil Password Thieves Using Your Mouth," Wired, Dec. 13, 2020. Boxcar Willie, "Luther," Jan. 30, 2012. "Luther," International Lyrics Playground (accessed Jan. 31, 2021). "Boxcar Willie," Wikipedia (accessed Jan. 31, 2021). This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listeners Paul Schoeps and Stuart Baker. Stuart sent this corroborating link, and Sharon found this related, gratuitously horrifying incident. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

The death of Robert (Bobby) Kennedy came just a few short months after America lost Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and America was devastated.  But, was the death of RFK as cut and dry as it seemed?  There are a whole lot of people who didn't think so... Marry Ferrell Foundation.  The Robert Kennedy Assassination.  Robert Kennedy Assassination (maryferrell.org) FBI Vault.  FOIA.  Robert F Kennedy (Assassination) Part 1 of 3.  FBI Records: The Vault — Robert F Kennedy (Assassination) Part 1 of 3 Robert F. Kennedy.  A Brief Biography.  Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.  2021.  Robert F Kennedy Biography| RFK Human Rights - Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Iowa PBS.  American Experience.  RFK’s Enemies.  RFK's Enemies | American Experience | Official Site | PBS John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.  The Bay of Pigs.  JFK in History. The Bay of Pigs | JFK Library Click on Detroit.  Remembering Robert Kennedy’s Feud with Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa.  Ken Haddad.  June 6, 2018.  Remembering Robert Kennedy's feud with Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa (clickondetroit.com) The New Yorker.  Robert Kennedy Without Tears.  Adam Gopnik.  June 6th, 2018.  Robert Kennedy Without Tears | The New Yorker BBC News.  US and Canada.  Sirhan Sirhan:  Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassin Stabbed in Prison.  August 31, 2019.  Sirhan Sirhan: Robert F Kennedy's assassin stabbed in prison - BBC News Sound from Leo McElroy Eyewitness News Channel 7 obtained via Digital Archives from the University of Massachusetts. Description: Audio excerpts of Los Angeles Channel 7 and Channel 4 evening news featuring lawyer Vincent Bugliosi speaking at a press conference where he and Paul Schrade introduce evidence of a ninth and tenth bullet found at the scene of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, who was killed June 6, 1968. There is also an interview of Police Chief Ed Davis, by reporter Leo McGilroy. Collected for the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives at UMass Dartmouth. RFKRFK AssassinationRobert F. KennedyUMass DartmouthSMU   Vincent Bugliosi on the RFK assassination investigation, 1975, December 4, MC1.s5.56 by UMassD Digital Archives | Free Listening on SoundCloud Fernando Faura Press Conference on the RFK Assassination, 1971.  MC1.s5.53.  UMassD Digital Archives.  Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (exlibrisgroup.com) Partial Interview with Thomas F. Kranz by Larry Attebery.  KTTV Television Station.  Los Angeles, Calif.  Partial interview with Thomas F. Kranz by Larry Attebery - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (exlibrisgroup.com) Covert Geopolitics.  The Blatant Conspiracy Behind Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination.  June 13th, 2020.  Edward Curtin.  The Blatant Conspiracy behind Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination | Covert Geopolitics Oral History Interview with Frank J. Burns by Philip Melanson, 1987 October 24 and 29, MC1.s5.112. UMassD Digital Archives.  Oral history interview with Frank J. Burns as a witness to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 1987 October 24 and 29 - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (exlibrisgroup.com) History.  This Day in History.  Robert F. Kennedy is Fatally Shot.  June 5 1968.  Bill Eppridge.  Writings and Art.  The Poster Boy for Loitering and Intrigue: Part Two.  May 10, 2014.  Michael Wayne: Part 2 (writingsandart.com) Boston.com.  Bobby Kennedy’s Son Thinks he was Killed by a Second Shooter.  Is there Anything to it?  Nik DeCosta-Klipa.  May 31, 2018.  Was Bobby Kennedy assassinated by a second shooter? Here's what we know | Boston.com The Mob Museaum.  CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys- October.  Blog.  June 23rd, 2015.  Patrick Nolan.  CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys-October 14 | The Mob Museum Handwritten Notes By Robert F. Kennedy Assassin Sirhan Sirhan Shed new Light on Killer.  April 7, 2011.  L.A. Times.  Bob Pool.  Handwritten notes by Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan shed new light on killer | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) The Washington Post.  Retropolis.  Who Killed Bobby Kennedy?  His Son RFK Jr. Doesn’t Believe it was Sirhan Sirhan.  Tom Jackman.  June 5, 2018.  Who killed Bobby Kennedy? His son RFK Jr. doesn't believe it was Sirhan Sirhan. - The Washington Post Irish Central.  RFK Jr. is not Convinced Sirhan Sirhan Killed his Father.  Irish Central Staff.  September 13, 2019.  RFK Jr thinks Thane Eugene Cesar may have killed his father (irishcentral.com)

Sometimes the idea of going to a real archive can be intimidating, or just impossible based on your location. Learning to navigate a digital archive can be incredibly useful when it comes to researching and a great starting point for any research assignment.  Many newspaper archives are a paid subscription but the Trove archive is completely free and an absolute gold mine for finding hidden historical treasures.Trove Digital ArchivesPodcast Recommendations: How did it come to this?Amped Up Learning StoreSeason One Cover Lesson BundleContact: Twitter @HistoryDetect, Instagram @HistoryDetective9, Facebook  and email  historydetective9@gmail.comAll original music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

In this podcast Russell Maliphant, the critically acclaimed, award winning choreographer, dancer and artistic director of Russell Maliphant Dance Company, discusses his career and work that firmly places this artist as one of Britain's most important choreographers creating work today.  Next year, Russell Maliphant Dance Company is set to celebrate their 25th Anniversary. Listen to Russell share his journey from training with The Royal Ballet School, dancing with Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet (now Birmingham Royal Ballet), before deciding to forge an independent dance career, that led to him establishing Russell Maliphant Dance Company. Russell is a deeply considered artist, eternally curious and highly academic. Listen to Russell as he discusses his interest and research into anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, Rolf Method of Structural Integration, somatic practice and more. He also talks about his exploration of flow and energy and the relationship between movement, light and music in his award winning work. Russell Maliphant (c) Panayiotis Sinnos At the time of this podcast recording, dance was just returning to the stage in London and unfortunately due to the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hitting the UK and Europe, performances have again been cancelled or delayed. Russell Maliphant choreographed a piece for English National Ballet's REUNION - which was to be their first live performance since the initial lockdown - unfortunately this is currently delayed. Russell Maliphant Dance Company is scheduled to perform in Europe in early 2021. The company has also made their Digital Archives available and they are also holding online classes, workshops and more. Stay up to date with Russell Maliphant Dance Company performance dates and discover more here. PRESS PLAY!  

In this podcast Russell Maliphant, the critically acclaimed, award winning choreographer, dancer and artistic director of Russell Maliphant Dance Company, discusses his career and work that firmly places this artist as one of Britain's most important choreographers creating work today.  Next year, Russell Maliphant Dance Company is set to celebrate their 25th Anniversary. Listen to Russell share his journey from training with The Royal Ballet School, dancing with Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet (now Birmingham Royal Ballet), before deciding to forge an independent dance career, that led to him establishing Russell Maliphant Dance Company. Russell is a deeply considered artist, eternally curious and highly academic. Listen to Russell as he discusses his interest and research into anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, Rolf Method of Structural Integration, somatic practice and more. He also talks about his exploration of flow and energy and the relationship between movement, light and music in his award winning work. Russell Maliphant (c) Panayiotis Sinnos At the time of this podcast recording, dance was just returning to the stage in London and unfortunately due to the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hitting the UK and Europe, performances have again been cancelled or delayed. Russell Maliphant choreographed a piece for English National Ballet's REUNION - which was to be their first live performance since the initial lockdown - unfortunately this is currently delayed. Russell Maliphant Dance Company is scheduled to perform in Europe in early 2021. The company has also made their Digital Archives available and they are also holding online classes, workshops and more. Stay up to date with Russell Maliphant Dance Company performance dates and discover more here. PRESS PLAY!

This year, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! Join CLIR Bollinger Fellow, Jennifer Garcon, for an episode on creating lightweight digital archives from scratch. Jennifer delves into sustainability, tech, and community control with a focus on cultivating equitable community partnerships. Music in this episode: Blue Dot Sessions- OneEightFour Sidy Maiga- Haiti Mali Blue Dot Sessions - Elmore Heights Blue Dot Sessions - Daymaze Blue Dot Sessions - Pinky Blue Dot Sessions - Lupi Blue Dot Sessions - Gatinha Rosa Blue Dot Sessions - Stucco Grey Poddington Bear - Hard Won

Alice Duer Miller was well connected at Barnard College. Find out who her friends were in this bonus episode.

Our Editor in Chief Efe Levent is joined by writer Sina Zekavat to discuss his latest article Digital Archives Memory Banks of the Revolution. Sina brings additional insights to his article by discussing the recent wave of protests in Iran and the efforts to document what is happening against the propaganda efforts of the regime.

DragonFlyBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Linux benchmark on Ryzen 7, JFK Presidential Library chooses TrueNAS for digital archives, FreeBSD 12.1-beta is available, cool but obscure X11 tools, vBSDcon trip report, Project Trident 12-U7 is available, a couple new Unix artifacts, and more. Headlines DragonFlyBSD 5.6 vs. FreeBSD 12 vs. Linux - Ryzen 7 3700X (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bsd-linux-3700x) For those wondering how well FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD are handling AMD's new Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors, here are some benchmarks on a Ryzen 7 3700X with MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE where both of these popular BSD operating systems were working out-of-the-box. For some fun mid-week benchmarking, here are those results of FreeBSD 12.0 and DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 up against openSUSE Tumbleweed and Ubuntu 19.04. Back in July I looked at FreeBSD 12 on the Ryzen 9 3900X but at that time at least DragonFlyBSD had troubles booting on that system. When trying out the Ryzen 7 3700X + MSI GODLIKE X570 motherboard on the latest BIOS, everything "just worked" without any compatibility issues for either of these BSDs. We've been eager to see how well DragonFlyBSD is performing on these new AMD Zen 2 CPUs with DragonFlyBSD lead developer Matthew Dillon having publicly expressed being impressed by the new AMD Ryzen 3000 series CPUs. For comparison to those BSDs, Ubuntu 19.04 and openSUSE Tumbleweed were tested on the same hardware in their out-of-the-box configurations. While Clear Linux is normally the fastest, on this system Clear's power management defaults had caused issues in being unable to detect the Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSD used for testing and so we left it out this round. All of the hardware was the same throughout testing as were the BIOS settings and running the Ryzen 7 3700X at stock speeds. (Any differences in the reported hardware for the system table just come down to differences in what is exposed by each OS for reporting.) All of the BSD/Linux benchmarks on this eight core / sixteen thread processor were run via the Phoronix Test Suite. In the case of FreeBSD 12.0, we benchmarked both with its default LLVM Clang 6.0 compiler as well as with GCC 9.1 so that it would match the GCC compiler being the default on the other operating systems under test. JFK Presidential Library Chooses iXsystems TrueNAS to Preserve Precious Digital Archives (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/jfk-presidential-library-pr/) iXsystems is honored to have the TrueNAS® M-Series unified storage selected to store, serve, and protect the entire digital archive for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. This is in support of the collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (JFK Library). Over the next several years, the Foundation hopes to grow the digital collection from hundreds of terabytes today to cover much more of the Archives at the Kennedy Library. Overall there is a total of 25 million documents, audio recordings, photos, and videos once the project is complete. Having first deployed the TrueNAS M50-HA earlier in 2019, the JFK Library has now completed the migration of its existing digital collection and is now in the process of digitizing much of the rest of its vast collection. Not only is the catalog of material vast, it is also diverse, with files being copied to the storage system from a variety of sources in numerous file types. To achieve this ambitious goal, the library required a high-end NAS system capable of sharing with a variety of systems throughout the digitization process. The digital archive will be served from the TrueNAS M50 and made available to both in-person and online visitors. With precious material and information comes robust demands. The highly-available TrueNAS M-Series has multiple layers of protection to help keep data safe, including data scrubs, checksums, unlimited snapshots, replication, and more. TrueNAS is also inherently scalable with data shares only limited by the number of drives connected to the pool. Perfect for archival storage, the deployed TrueNAS M50 will grow with the library’s content, easily expanding its storage capacity over time as needed. Supporting a variety of protocols, multi-petabyte scalability in a single share, and anytime, uninterrupted capacity expansion, the TrueNAS M-Series ticked all the right boxes. Youtube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rFjH5-0Fiw) News Roundup FreeBSD 12.1-beta available (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-12.1-Beta-Released) FreeBSD 12.0 is already approaching one year old while FreeBSD 12.1 is now on the way as the next installment with various bug/security fixes and other alterations to this BSD operating system. FreeBSD 12.1 has many security/bug fixes throughout, no longer enables "-Werror" by default as a compiler flag (Update: This change is just for the GCC 4.2 compiler), has imported BearSSL into the FreeBSD base system as a lightweight TLS/SSL implementation, bzip2recover has been added, and a variety of mostly lower-level changes. More details can be found via the in-progress release notes. For those with time to test this weekend, FreeBSD 12.1 Beta 1 is available for all prominent architectures. The FreeBSD release team is planning for at least another beta or two and around three release candidates. If all goes well, FreeBSD 12.1 will be out in early November. Announcement Link (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2019-September/091533.html) Cool, but obscure X11 tools. More suggestions in the source link (https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/) ASClock Free42 FSV2 GLXGears GMixer GVIM Micropolis Sunclock Ted TiEmu X026 X48 XAbacus XAntfarm XArchiver XASCII XBiff XBill XBoard XCalc XCalendar XCHM XChomp XClipboard XClock XClock/Cat Clock XColorSel XConsole XDiary XEarth XEdit Xev XEyes XFontSel XGalaga XInvaders 3D XKill XLennart XLoad XLock XLogo XMahjongg XMan XMessage XmGrace XMixer XmMix XMore XMosaic XMOTD XMountains XNeko XOdometer XOSView Xplore XPostIt XRoach XScreenSaver XSnow XSpread XTerm XTide Xv Xvkbd XWPE XZoom vBSDCon 2019 trip report from iXSystems (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/vbsdcon-2019/) The fourth biennial vBSDCon was held in Reston, VA on September 5th through 7th and attracted attendees and presenters from not only the Washington, DC area, but also Canada, Germany, Kenya, and beyond. While MeetBSD caters to Silicon Valley BSD enthusiasts on even years, vBSDcon caters to East Coast and DC area enthusiasts on odd years. Verisign was again the key sponsor of vBSDcon 2019 but this year made a conscious effort to entrust the organization of the event to a team of community members led by Dan Langille, who you probably know as the lead BSDCan organizer. The result of this shift was a low key but professional event that fostered great conversation and brainstorming at every turn. Project Trident 12-U7 now available (https://project-trident.org/post/2019-09-21_stable12-u7_available/) Package Summary New Packages: 130 Deleted Packages: 72 Updated Packages: 865 Stable ISO - https://pkg.project-trident.org/iso/stable/Trident-x64-TOS-12-U7-20190920.iso A Couple new Unix Artifacts (https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2019-September/018685.html) I fear we're drifting a bit here and the S/N ratio is dropping a bit w.r.t the actual history of Unix. Please no more on the relative merits of version control systems or alternative text processing systems. So I'll try to distract you by saying this. I'm sitting on two artifacts that have recently been given to me: by two large organisations of great significance to Unix history who want me to keep "mum" about them as they are going to make announcements about them soon* and I am going slowly crazy as I wait for them to be offically released. Now you have a new topic to talk about :-) Cheers, Warren * for some definition of "soon" Beastie Bits NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2019 Hiroshima (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2019/09/16/msg000813.html) Hyperbola a GNU/Linux OS is using OpenBSD's Xenocara (https://www.hyperbola.info/news/end-of-xorg-support/) Talos is looking for a FreeBSD Engineer (https://www.talosintelligence.com/careers/freebsd_engineer) GitHub - dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible: A collection of pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes. (https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible) dsynth: you’re building it (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/09/23/23523.html) Percy Ludgate, the missing link between Babbage’s machine and everything else (http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/2019-September/001606.html) Feedback/Questions Bruce - Down the expect rabbithole (http://dpaste.com/147HGP3#wrap) Bruce - Expect (update) (http://dpaste.com/37MNVSW#wrap) David - Netgraph answer (http://dpaste.com/2SE1YSE) Mason - Beeps? (http://dpaste.com/00KKXJM) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Your browser does not support the HTML5 video tag.

Discover Mukurtu, the online database helping Indigenous communities achieve self-determination through the conservation of digital archive material.

Discover Mukurtu, the online database helping Indigenous communities achieve self-determination through the conservation of digital archive material.

The Guys have resolved the high-pitched sound problem and have replaced the six affected episodes (GGP 359, 360, 351 & GC 52, 53, 54) with clean ones. Read more at our blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/2019/05/6-previous-episodes-re-released-with.html. Winners of the Unsung Heroes Awards for 2Q2019 will be announced on Saturday, June 1, 2019, at the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree in Burbank. A special presentation will be made at 1:30 PM in the convention center lobby, followed by the remainder in the Exhibit Hall at the Flip-Pal/Vivid-Pix booth. The launch of the new Facebook group page, The Genealogy Squad, took place on May 6, 2019. Membership has topped 11,800 in just three weeks and is still growing fast. The principals are Blaine T. Bettinger, Cyndi Ingle, George G. Morgan, and Drew Smith. You can join at https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogysquad. News You Can Use and Share MyHeritage announced the launch of the MyHeritage DNA Health+Ancestry test on May 20, 2019. It includes dozens of personalized and easy-to-understand health reports in addition to the ethnicity results, a chromosome browser, and matching with others in their database.  A new kit is $199; an upgrade to your existing DNA kit is $120. Read their announcement at http://blog.genealogyguys.com/search/label/MyHeritage%20Health%20%26%20Ancestry%20Test and learn more at their website. Ancestry announced that it has surpassed 15 million members in its DNA network. Findmypast has announced the launch of ancestor sharing for users with family trees online. This is an optional feature. Findmypast has released Queensland Soldier Portraits (1914-1918), and has announced the launch of over 114 million new birth, christening, marriage, death, and burial records covering 20 European nations (1502-1960). FamilySearch celebrates 20 years online. Drew recaps some major record additions at FamilySearch. Blaine T. Bettinger This week's discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on the researcher's problem of confirmation bias, and how it can affect both DNA-based research and traditional genealogical research. Cyndi Ingle Cyndi Ingle's “Cyndi Says” segment highlights web resources about archives. She provides links to: Alabama Mosaic, http://www.alabamamosaic.org Alaska's Digital Archives, http://vilda.alaska.edu Arizona Memory Project, http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov Arkansas History Commission (AHC), http://www.ark-ives.com Online Archive of California, http://www.oac.cdlib.org Colorado Virtual Library, http://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org Connecticut Digital Collections, http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/dld/CT_Digital_Collections State of Delaware – Digital Archives, http://archives.delaware.gov/exhibits/exhibits-toc.shtml Florida Memory, https://www.floridamemory.com Georgia's Virtual Vault, http://cdm.georgiaarchives.org:2011/cdm/ Hawaii State Archives Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.hawaii.gov/greenstone3/library Idaho State Archives, http://history.idaho.gov/idaho-state-archives Illinois Digital Archives, http://www.idaillinois.org Indiana Digital Archives, https://secure.in.gov/apps/iara/search/ Iowa Heritage Digital Collections, http://www.iowaheritage.org Kansas Memory, http://www.kansasmemory.org Kentucky Digital Library, http://kdl.kyvl.org Louisiana Digital Library, http://louisianadigitallibrary.org/ Maine Memory Network, http://www.mainememory.net Archives of Maryland Online, http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/html/index.html Digital Commonwealth - Massachusetts Collections Online, https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org Seeking Michigan, http://seekingmichigan.org Minnesota Reflections, http://reflections.mndigital.org MDAH Digital Archives - Mississippi Department of Archives and History, http://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/ Missouri Digital Heritage, http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh Montana Memory Project, http://montanamemory.org Nebraska State Historical Society, http://nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records Digital Collections, http://www.nsladigitalcollections.org New Hampshire Historical Society, https://www.nhhistory.org New Jersey Digital Highway, http://www.njdigitalhighway.org New Mexico's Digital Collections, http://econtent.unm.edu New York State Archives' Digital Collections, http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov North Carolina Digital Collections, http://digital.ncdcr.gov Digital Horizons (North Dakota & Minnesota), http://digitalhorizonsonline.org Ohio Memory, http://www.ohiomemory.org Oklahoma Digital Prairie, http://digitalprairie.ok.gov Oregon State Archives, http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/default.aspx Pennsylvania State Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us Rhode Island State Archives - Digital Library, http://sos.ri.gov/archon/?p=digitallibrary/digitallibrary South Carolina Digital Library, http://scmemory.org Digital Library of South Dakota (DLSD), http://dlsd.sdln.net Tennessee Virtual Archive, http://teva.contentdm.oclc.org Texas Digital Archive, https://www.tsl.texas.gov/texasdigitalarchive Digital Utah, http://pioneer.utah.gov/digital/utah.html Vermont State Archives, https://www.sec.state.vt.us/archives-records/state-archives.aspx Library of Virginia, http://www.lva.virginia.gov Washington State Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov West Virginia Division of Culture and History, http://www.wvculture.org Wisconsin Historical Society, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org Wyoming State Archives, http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us Our Listeners Talk to Us Florence wrote to Vivid-Pix to share her delight with the new software. John asks about maintaining a source database in MS Word, in Evidentia, or in EndNote. The Guys ask our listeners for their feedback. Tom and his wife are headed to Washington, DC, in May 2020 and plan to research at NARA. The Guys provide some advice but also ask listeners to share their recommendations for a successful research trip. Thank you to our Patreon supporters! You can also tell your friends or your society about our free podcasts. Visit The Genealogy Guys Blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com for more news and interesting ideas for your genealogy.

Mukurtu is a Warumungu word meaning “dilly bag” or a safe keeping place for sacred materials. Nina Maile Gordon/The Conversation CC-NY-BDReader advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article may contain images of people who have died. A few years ago, the State Library of NSW was working with Moree’s Dhiiyaan Centre to pull together archival photographs of the 1965 Freedom Rides, an Aboriginal-led protest against racist segregationist policies in NSW. Moree – where Aboriginal people were once banned from swimming in the public pool – was an important site in the history of protest against official segregation in Australia, and a key stop on the Freedom Rides route. Demonstrating outside the Council Chambers at Moree, February 1965 Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation. Digital ID: 5606003. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation, Author provided (No reuse) Kirsten Thorpe - a Worimi woman, professional archivist and now a researcher at UTS – was then at the State Library, working with Mitchell Librarian Richard Neville to dig out old protest photos to share with the Moree community in the lead up to an exhibition. But in practice, collecting, sharing and storing such digital archives in perpetuity is no simple matter. Surveying at Bowraville, February 1965. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation. Digital ID: 5606019. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation., Author provided (No reuse) How to ensure the material is stored safely, so the whole process doesn’t need to be repeated in a few years time? How to capture the outpouring of memories and stories that such an exhibition evokes? What if the exhibition inspires more people to come forward with important historical material or accounts – where does that material end up? And how to ensure Indigenous people are empowered to tell their own stories and have a say over how digital archives are managed? Enter Mukurtu. Moree residents look on as the students protest outside the Moree Council Chambers, February 1965. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation. Digital ID: 5606004. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation., Author provided (No reuse) Mukurtu (pronounced MOOK-oo-too) is an online system that aims to help Indigenous communities conserve stories, videos, photographs, songs, word lists and other digital archives. Mukurtu is a Warumungu word meaning “dilly bag” or a safe keeping place for sacred materials. It’s a free, mobile, and open source platform built with Indigenous communities in mind to manage and share digital cultural heritage. Kirsten Thorpe says it’s the kind of thing that would have been really useful back when she was collating Freedom Rides material for the Moree community. Conserving Indigenous archives for future generations Mukurtu is/are already being used by Native American communities to store and preserve digital archives, and Kirsten Thorpe – now a senior researcher at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS – is involved in making Mukurtu more widely accessible in Australia. She works with other key players, such as Professor Kimberly Christen at the Centre for Digital Curation and Scholarship in the US and Richard Neville at the State Library of NSW, to ensure the Mukurtu Project has the institutional support it needs to help Indigenous communities protect their cultural heritage for generations to come. On today’s episode of the podcast, Kirsten Thorpe and Richard Neville explain why Mukurtu is needed, how it’s being used and what’s at stake if we don’t find better ways to empower Indigenous people with the skills and tech to conserve and manage digital archives. Freedom rider Charles Perkins (right) surveying members of the Moree community about living conditions, February 1965. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation. Digital ID: 5605027. Photo from the Tribune archive, State Library of NSW. Courtesy the SEARCH Foundation., Author provided (No reuse) New to podcasts? Podcasts are often best enjoyed using a podcast app. All iPhones come with the Apple Podcasts app already installed, or you may want to listen and subscribe on another app such as Pocket Casts (click here to listen to Trust Me, I’m An Expert on Pocket Casts). You can also hear us on Stitcher, Spotify or any of the apps below. Just pick a service from one of those listed below and click on the icon to find Trust Me, I’m An Expert. Additional audio Kindergarten by Unkle Ho, from Elefant Traks ABC News 1965 intro music. Lee Rosevere, Betrayal. Lead image: Nina Maile Gordon

Museums Race To Save Digital Archives by Uptown Radio

David Kay, Digital Archivist for Optimity Advisors and the founder of Digital Archivy (http://www.digitalarchivy.com/), tells the story of his fall into archives (particularly digital archives), his work as an archivist for an animated television program, and his efforts to help design the Society of American Archivist's Digital Archives Specialist certification program. This is the first of our episodes to end with a limerick.

David Kay, Digital Archivist for Optimity Advisors and the founder of Digital Archivy (http://www.digitalarchivy.com/), tells the story of his fall into archives (particularly digital archives), his work as an archivist for an animated television program, and his efforts to help design the Society of American Archivist's Digital Archives Specialist certification program. This is the first of our episodes to end with a limerick.

Lori explores the history of the Great Smoky Mountains Civilian Conservation Corp Camps including a quick review of Kephart Prong Trail and the CCC camp relics found there. See Lori's Kephart Prong trail video here. She also interviews Liz Skene of Western Carolina University's Hunter Library about their digital archives and how the archives are enabling people to learn about the rich history of Western North Carolina. Explore the WCU digital archives here.Dig into the collection of Kephart Prong digital artifacts and the Great Smoky Mountains collection. Connect with Lori and Hike on social mediaMusic track "Two Mountains at a Time" from Live at the Fillmore by Pachyderm, used under the Creative Commons license. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thehikepodcast)

Dan Noonan discusses his life as an appraiser of buildings and how it led to his life as a records manager, an archivist, and a digital archivist in a library setting. He also tells us about his life helping run the Archives Leadership Institute.

Dan Noonan discusses his life as an appraiser of buildings and how it led to his life as a records manager, an archivist, and a digital archivist in a library setting. He also tells us about his life helping run the Archives Leadership Institute.

Take a moment and think about all of the materials that go into an exhibition. It’s a lot, right? Objects, documents, essays, labels, not to mention the installation itself. And your museum can only fit so much of that into its physical space. What about all of the other stories that end up on the cutting room floor? The outtakes? What about the stories that get generated during and after the exhibition? With your museum’s website, the only limitations to the stories you can share are time and resources. And those are real. But with a little bit of planning, you can come up with a strategy for enhancing your collections and exhibitions online. And that’s exactly what the Hammer Museum has done. Today I’m talking with Philip Leers, Project Manager for Digital Initiatives at the Hammer Museum, about telling a museum’s stories online. **FULL TRANSCRIPT** NICK: Hi, and welcome to What’s On, the Cuberis podcast. I’m Nick Faber. Today I’m talking with Philip Leers, Project Manager for Digital Initiatives at the Hammer Museum, about telling a museum’s stories online. Now… Take a moment and think about all of the materials that go into an exhibition. It’s a lot, right? Objects, documents, essays, labels, not to mention the installation itself. And your museum can only fit so much of that into its physical space. What about all of the other stories that end up on the cutting room floor? The outtakes? What about the stories that get generated during and after the exhibition? With your museum’s website, the only limitations to the stories you can share are time and resources. And those are real. But with a little bit of planning, you can come up with a strategy for enhancing your collections and exhibitions online. And that’s exactly what the Hammer Museum has done. The Hammer’s digital archives are a fantastic example of using technology to illuminate a museum’s hidden treasures and augmenting those on view. If you haven’t seen what we’re talking about, I’d encourage you to head over to hammer.ucla.edu and click on “Exhibitions.” You’ll find the Expanded Digital Archives on the right-hand side. So, I spoke with the Hammer’s Philip Leers over Skype and asked him to talk about the work that goes into these projects. We talked about planning, collaborating, and the value of creating goals for individual projects. First, I wanted to know who exactly worked on the Digital Archives, and that’s where we’ll pick up the conversation. PHILIP: For some of the Digital Archives -- that's the term we use for the projects -- we've done two that were for exhibitions, so the websites are built around all of the materials that go around planning the exhibition and that came out of the exhibition. So, essays for the catalog, and label text, and images of the installation, and any material we could get our hands on. So the material is coming from curatorial, but, in terms of the building, this is part of our website, which falls under our communications team, so I work really closely with them. Our IT, our registrars, everybody comes into contact with the project at some point. NICK: Got it. And so, you said you're building it out of all of the materials that go into the exhibition, are there also things that don't make it into the exhibition that, because you're using a digital platform, that you're able to bring online? PHILIP: Yeah, absolutely, and that was one of the big things we talked about. We didn't want to just recreate the catalog, we didn't want to do a virtual exhibition. We wanted to include things from both the exhibition and the catalog, but we also figured we're making these after the fact, we're doing them on a platform that offers us all new capabilities. So some of the things that we included, we could only do because we're doing it kind of retrospectively. So we could include press reviews of the show, we can include images of the shows and other materials if it traveled to different venues...

Alison Clemens of Yale talks about heading up a large description operation, managing digital records, serving the profession, and the importance of meaningmaking and relationships in archives--and the last is not primarily about records.

Alison Clemens of Yale talks about heading up a large description operation, managing digital records, serving the profession, and the importance of meaningmaking and relationships in archives--and the last is not primarily about records.

To mark forty years since The National Archives moved to Kew, our digital director John Sheridan discusses the challenges that archives will face in the future. John is currently leading efforts to transfer our digital offer to become an archive that is digital by instinct and design.

This session – led by Ms Vicky Bird and Dr Avinash Paliwal – will offer an introduction to the archives of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’ papers on Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and China. Highly suitable for teaching and research purposes, these archives are now available digitally via Adam Matthew International. SOAS Library will begin Read more..

Public historian Nathan Masters is host, producer, and managing editor of LOST LA, a co-production of KCETLink and USC Libraries LA as Subject research alliance. The show, which just started its second season, “recenter[s] the telling of Los Angeles history” away from the Anglo-American perspective. “The point that we make is that LA has always been diverse.” For links to some of the things we talk about: http://bedrosian.usc.edu/lahashtags/

  In honor of Black History month, a podcast about famed writer and poet Margaret Walker, oral histories of the civil rights movement, and more…with Dr. Robert Luckett of Jackson State University.   Show Notes:   CLICK HERE to visit the Digital Archives at the Margaret Walker Center: They include a digital archives project, book[Read More] The post Life Preservers Podcast: Episode 10 – Exploring Black History & The Margaret Walker Center appeared first on Verissima Productions.

What can the collections of the Harvard University Libraries teach us about our early American past? It turns out, quite a lot. Taylor Stoermer, a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, takes us through the Harvard Libraries’ new digital and free-to-use history archive: the Colonial North American Project. Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/093   Helpful Show Links Help Support Ben Franklin's World Crowdfunding Campaign   Ask the Historian Ben Franklin's World Facebook Page Join the Ben Franklin's World Community Sign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App

As one of many current preservation models, Washington State Archives’ digital repository is unique for its size, its scope, and for being fully developed in-house. Debbie Bahn, Electronic Records Archivist, presents an overview of the state’s Digital Archives, including its evolution; preservation architecture and workflows; the biggest preservation challenges; the multi-disciplinary team; and keeping up in a constantly changing work environment.

As one of many current preservation models, Washington State Archives’ digital repository is unique for its size, its scope, and for being fully developed in-house. Debbie Bahn, Electronic Records Archivist, presents an overview of the state’s Digital Archives, including its evolution; preservation architecture and workflows; the biggest preservation challenges; the multi-disciplinary team; and keeping up in a constantly changing work environment.

The digital revolution is allowing local and state historical organizations to place more primary sources online. But digitization is labor-intensive. Learn more about the successes and failures of four unique projects that are using crowdsourcing to mitigate the labor demands of digitization while providing educational opportunities for their constituents. Chair: David McKenzie, Digital Projects Manager, Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington, DC; Jason Crabill, Manager, Curatorial Services, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH; Catherine Keene Fields, Executive Director, Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, CT; Lorraine McConaghy, Ph.D., Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA. Download at: http://resource.aaslh.org/view/building-digital-archives-lessons-learned-from-four-crowdsourced-online-projects/

Institute of Historical Research Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) History has not been kind to Victorian jokes. While the great works of nineteenth-century art and literature have been...

Institute of Historical Research Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) History has not been kind to Victorian jokes. While the great works of nineteenth-century art and literature have been...