Archives Blogs

MAY 7, 2019

SNAC’s landing page mosaic, where users discover archival holdings world-wide via searches for the organizations, persons and families who created them. From Child’s record, researchers have single-click access to archival collections in repositories around the world. One of SNAC’s most popular authority records is that of Julia Child.

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The Texas Record

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Archives and information services division at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has a sophisticated electronic records processes. Many agencies who submit their records to the Archives, may not know how their records are incorporated into TSLAC’s archival inventory.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

by the Archive-It team. Archive-It partners and Internet Archive staff met in-person for their first annual review of web archiving progress and plans since 2019, immediately preceding the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) annual conference in Boston.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Best Practices Exchange (BPE) is one of those conferences that slips my radar until I need information about how the archives community is thinking about X (insert electronic records, born digital archives, digital preservation, etc. the websites and physical spaces in libraries and archives. Thank you TSLA!

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Archive-It

JUNE 16, 2022

In May 2021, the Society of American Archivists’ Web Archiving Section hosted a chat about web accessibility. Throughout the session, a recurring question that arose was how accessible web archives are. How accessible are archived websites? Websites are currently archived using the Web ARChive “WARC” file format.

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Unwritten Record

AUGUST 10, 2022

Nearly 4,000 Universal Newsreel Release descriptions have been added to the National Archives Catalog, the result of a unique, multi-year collaborative effort by NARA staff of the Moving Image and Sound Branch and Citizen Archivist Phil Stewart. Universal Newsreel Opening Credits /Logo. The Description Project. This Week in Universal News.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The French police grew suspicious when the 6′ 3″ blonde, green-eyed man presented an ID that stated he was of Romanian nationality. Kurittu said it remains to be seen if the prosecution can make their case, and if the defense has any answers to all of the evidence presented.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2024

Her work has included setting up heritage initiatives: Lost Legends: 30 Years of Black History Month in Leicester (2016-2017) and Archiving the Past: Reflecting the Future (2018-2020). For example, black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s famous work Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast was sold outright to Novello and Co for a mere 15 guineas.

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Unwritten Record

AUGUST 23, 2022

The National Archives’ extensive holdings of World War II-era radio broadcasts have long been overshadowed by our flashier newsreel holdings. Some of the obstacles presented to placing recording online include rights issues, about which more appears at the end of this post, and the many generations of copies of the original recordings.

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The National Archives Catalog includes digitized posters and graphics with Spanish text that run the gamut from World War II propaganda posters to contemporary public service announcements. You can browse the posters in the National Archives Catalog and use the filters on the side-bar to refine by record group.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

The document is part of the Snowden archive, and I wrote about it: The second application suggested is to identify a particular person whom you know visited a particular geographical area on a series of dates/times. The example in the presentation is a kidnapper.

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The Schedule

APRIL 11, 2022

Mark your calendars for April 25th, 2022 1pm-3pm EST. We will have 3 wonderful presenters share their work in lighting round fashion! 30 minutes will be allocated for discussion and questions following the presentations. We will present on the challenges we face regarding records management responsibilities on our campus.

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Preservica

AUGUST 22, 2018

Real-world digital preservation blog series: The Waddesdon Archive. I recently caught up with Catherine Taylor, Head Archivist at the Waddesdon Manor Archive in Buckinghamshire, UK. Waddesdon – a diverse archive. Organisation and access: challenges for the archiving team.

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ARMA International

MARCH 18, 2024

For example, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) regulations 29 CFR 1904 et. That is just one example of many regulations that specify retention periods. A training presentation for example, or a product announcement. require minimum retention of workplace injuries or illnesses for five years.

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Archive-It

MARCH 8, 2022

By Bridget Collings, Raven Germain, and Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivists for Archive-It. Many Archive-It partners are raising awareness against bias, stereotypes, and discrimination faced by women by documenting important feminist cultural heritage. Examples include Lauren Underwood , Ayanna Pressley , and Lucy McBath.

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Archives Blogs

DECEMBER 22, 2017

My staff will gather the ideas from across NARA and present them to the Protocol team. When the White House decides what they would like to give, we create lovely archival facsimiles that will be presented to the head of state. Records of the National Park Service, National Archives and Records Administration.

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Archive-It

APRIL 15, 2019

by the Archive-It team. Save the Date: Archive-It in Austin. Partners, Internet Archive staff, and friends will meet at ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2019, the joint annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and Council of State Archivists (CoSA), in Austin, Texas. Join the Archive-It open call on May 22.

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Archive-It

APRIL 14, 2020

by the Archive-It team. Archive-It is used by over 600 libraries, memory organizations, nonprofits, and others to preserve and provide perpetual access to the archived web. For institutions or projects with extreme financial uncertainty, we will work with you to find a way we can support your COVID-19 web archiving plans.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This blog post was adapted and modified from my presentation at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference on June 16, 2021. I had no prior web archiving experience, but the official NAHO website was scheduled to come down by the end of that year and needed a long-term home. Screenshot from the NAHO web archive.

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Archive-It

MAY 24, 2018

Partners, collaborators, and peers gathered this week for Describing Web Archives , the latest in Archive-It’s Advanced Training series of webinars , and the second (with Access to Archive-It Collections ) to invite web archivists to take the lead in demonstrating their approaches to access and discovery.

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Archive-It

JUNE 5, 2018

Three librarians from two Archive-It partner institutions shared their web archiving insights and sought feedback from their local colleagues at the fourth annual Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference. by Caron Rollins, Matt Huculak, and Dana McFarland. Leo Tolstoy: First web archivist? The collaborations will continue.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

“The list varied across analyzed samples, but an example list is shown below: txt.pdf.doc.docx.xml.img.jpg.png Once the file grabber has completed execution, the malware then creates a compressed archive called log.zip containing all of the logs that were previously written to the malware’s working directory.”

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Note that the kinds of compliance on this list present a real mix of different issues – laws are very different from good practice , for example. And, as another example, adherence to standards is frequently not policed, whereas adherence to regulations usually is policed more stringently. These requirements stem from: Laws.

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Preservica

JUNE 26, 2018

Real-world digital preservation blog series: Boston City Archives. We recently visited Marta Crilly at the Boston City Archives and learned how citizens and researchers are using the digital archive to learn more about the city of Boston’s past and the lives of the people who lived there. Digitization and public access.

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Preservica

AUGUST 18, 2020

In this blog I will use Twitter as an example of how this information can be preserved and how well-supported APIs make this easier. They are held internally in databases of unknown structure and the information is presented on the fly in different ways depending on the application used. are the attached images or a video, for example.

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 21, 2016

One of the meeting attendees asked an interesting question: for data-archive purposes, should one use system-time temporal functionality (by which DB2 retains "before" images of rows that are affected by update or delete operations), or the DB2-managed archiving capability delivered with DB2 11 for z/OS?

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Archives Blogs

MAY 29, 2018

Intrigued by the type of records held in the State Archives Collection, and the challenges in storing, preserving and making accessible our State’s official archives, UWA Lecturer Mark Sawyer suggested using the SRO as a “case study” and to have his first year architecture students develop proposed designs for a new SRO Search Room.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 28, 2021

by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Want to know more about a tool in our web archiving toolbox? Your suggestions or questions for future posts about Archive-It technology are very welcome here. Archiving web-based video and audio content can challenge even the most experienced web archivist.

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Archive-It

MAY 16, 2018

by the Archive-It team. Join us at the annual Archive-It Partner Meeting. We hope you can join us for an afternoon partner meeting on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 preceding ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018 , the joint annual meeting of CoSA, NAGARA, and SAA. May 30: Beginners’ Web Archiving Workshop at METRO – New York, NY.

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Archives Blogs

MARCH 7, 2019

We are very pleased to announce that all 1,936 posters in the BC Gay and Lesbian Archives (BCGLA) collection are now available online, thanks to funding from the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS). Here are some examples of the patterns produced. International Women’s Day poster, 1988.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 31, 2015

If you are not real clear as to what DB2-managed data archiving can do for you, I hope that this blog post will be illuminating. Before expanding on that statement, I want to draw a distinction between DB2-managed data archiving, introduced with DB2 11 for z/OS, and system-time temporal data support, which debuted with DB2 10.

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Archives Blogs

AUGUST 26, 2019

During the summer of 2019 Lorna Keddie, a graduate of the University of Stirling in Heritage and Tourism undertook a traineeship in the University Archives funded by the Musicians’ Union. An example of a union membership card from 1920. Here she writes about her work improving access to this unique resource.

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The Schedule

MARCH 3, 2021

Mark your calendars for April 7th, 2021 1pm-3pm EST. Outline of Event: 7 wonderful presenters working in records management, with 7 minute lightning round presentations (see below!). Virtual meeting invite and presentation order coming soon! Presenters: Angela Ossar, Office of the Governor of Texas.

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CILIP

JANUARY 22, 2024

Even ones that look the same on the surface can operate quite differently, for example, in one the building team is responsive but in another, with the same arrangement, they never get a reply.” Old options One of the options presented to councils 10 years ago was outsourcing their libraries.

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Unwritten Record

JUNE 13, 2022

Local ID: 165-WW-429P-1247, National Archives Identifier: 45532768. This post was created in collaboration with Heather Sulier, Archives Technician in the Still Picture Branch. Local ID: 165-WW-81C-14, National Archives Identifier: 23922795. Local ID: 111-AG-1(37), National Archives Identifier: 524380. “Col.

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The Schedule

JULY 31, 2017

Despite this sort of odd present, the position has an exciting future—City Records is going to be merging with the Legislative Reference Bureau library and the Historic Preservation Office to create a City Research Center, the nature of which is still being determined. As opposed to working in the UWM Archives, where we had about 8000 c.f.

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Unwritten Record

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Washington, Mayor of the District of Columbia, will present the Key to the city and commemorative medal to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. This post was created in collaboration with Kaitlyn Crain Enriquez, Archivist, and Sarah Bseirani, Archives Specialist, in the Still Picture Branch. The Honorable Walter E. July 8, 1976. 1 Nov 1951.

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