The New York Times does a nice job describing what is going on in the halls of government…err…what is not going on. They’re not preserving as much of the information that gets created via email or posted to websites as they should. Now, I don’t claim to know all that should be kept, but there [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘archiving’
January 4, 2008
Zotero Commons
This news piece may be a month old, but I thought it was worth mentioning because I think it’s a step in the right direction.
“If many researchers have had to scan rare documents or books for their own perusal, there’s a potential treasure trove of material that exists among their combined efforts. Rather than let [...]
December 7, 2007
Friday Levity: Mustaches of the 19th Century
Who knew that an archives collection could be so much fun? The Mustaches of the 19th Century blog contains digitized images from the University of Kentucky archives. It obviously is a blog of pictures of men who have mustaches. There are funny sayings with some of the images. This may be my [...]
May 9, 2007
Email Britain
Email, as we all know, is something very personal and isn’t stored (as far as we know) by anyone except by those sending and receiving a specific email. However, during the month of May, Windows Live Hotmail & the British Library is creating an archive of emails. I think this is a great [...]
