The VHS-Decode project is an effort to improve the archiving of old analog video tapes ~tech Article 300 words, published Dec 14 2022 4 votes
The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser ~tech browsers.web Article 463 words 12 votes
A curated collection of HCI demo videos produced during the golden age from 1983-2002 ~tech Link 6 votes
Forgotten archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church ~books Article 594 words 10 votes
Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections ~science biology Video 9:17 4 votes
Twilight of the libraries: What gets lost when books go off-site and online ~books libraries Article 1989 words, published Jul 8 2022 4 votes
The archive saving home sewing history from the trash ~hobbies Article 2056 words, published Jun 20 2022 6 votes
How ‘This Way Out’ is preserving its collection of historic audio from the LGBTQ movement ~lgbt history Article 1689 words, published Jun 13 2022 2 votes
The internet feeds on its own dying dreams ~tech facebook Article 5443 words, published Jan 7 2019 4 votes
Europeana contains over ten million digitalised artifacts from across Europe ~humanities.history Link 8 votes
New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters ~humanities.history Article 1039 words, published Mar 2 2021 4 votes
A new version of the first known on-screen kiss between two African-American actors has been discovered in the collections of the National Library of Norway ~movies Article 233 words 5 votes
‘Right now I’m into Libyan reggae’: The music label delving into the Arab world's back catalogue ~music pop rock jazz Article 1374 words 6 votes
Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online ~humanities.history Article 379 words, published Dec 18 2019 5 votes
The Bowed Strings Iconography Project catalogues as many images of bowed string instruments as possible throughout all periods of history through to the present day ~music Link 5 votes
The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection ~tech internet Article 1712 words 20 votes
2.1 million of the oldest internet posts are now online for anyone to read ~tech internet social media Article published Sep 17 2020 14 votes
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book ~books Article 2410 words, published Sep 10 2020 26 votes
Buried deep in the ice is the GitHub code vault — humanity's safeguard against devastation ~tech Article 1762 words 12 votes
GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic ~tech Article 1068 words 6 votes
The Boston Public Library needs help transcribing anti-slavery letters ~books libraries Article 248 words, published Jun 17 2020 5 votes
The Games Journal - A fantastic older game review/design analysis online publication that ran from 2000 - 2005 ~games.tabletop Article 3317 words 4 votes
The digital archives of the oldest Black newspaper in America show a long struggle for justice ~tech Article 45 words 5 votes
Tracking down all of Isaac Asimov's books ~books libraries Article 1172 words, published Apr 20 2020 10 votes
Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems ~humanities.history Article 1239 words 7 votes
Rock samples aren’t archived or shared: An international group of geologists make the case for storing and sharing ancient rocks ~science Article 7 votes
The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860 ~books libraries Article 251 words 10 votes
How to help librarians and archivists from your living room ~hobbies Article 873 words, published Mar 23 2020 8 votes
Vatican opens archives of World War II-era Pope Pius XII ~humanities.history Article 720 words 6 votes
The Radiohead Public Library, an online resource launched today containing videos, music, artwork, websites, merchandise, and assorted ephemera ~music Link 15 votes
The Internet Archive is digitising & preserving over 100,000 vinyl records: Hear 750 full albums now. ~music Article 738 words 8 votes
Better World Books and the Internet Archive unite to preserve millions of books ~books Article 670 words 8 votes
Papers behind the pistol: Mauser's archives on the Model 1910 ~humanities.history Video 14:33 4 votes
How a newspaper article saved thousands of Black gospel records from obscurity ~music Article 1485 words, published Sep 24 2019 7 votes
After Katrina, a priceless musical archive was thought lost. It showed up in Torrance ~music Article 2823 words 6 votes
Here are hundreds more artists whose tapes were destroyed in the UMG fire ~music Article 4481 words 9 votes