The Pararchive Project

Have a read of Jake Witz’s piece on how ever-changing technology is threatening digital music archives.

Lyndsey D’arcangelo reports on a new online LGBTQ archive which “is the largest searchable digital archive of LGBTQ history [that] brings together 1.5 million pages of rare and unique content covering social, political, health and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world”.

G. Clay Whittaker reports on groundbreaking research that is working toward developing a digital data storage system that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

About the Conference How does copyright impact the access to, and use of, our shared cultural heritage across borders, and online? Copyright and Cultural Memory is a free one-day conference, organised by CREATe, designed to explore this essential question. It will take place on the 9th June 2016 at The Lighthouse, Glasgow. Specifically, the conference…

adj. Of or relating to a physical object that has been digitized and stored in an online archive, making it more readily accessible. wordspy.com/index.php?word=reborn-digital

York: Gateway to History – a two-year Heritage Lottery Funded project we collaborated with last year – has now officially ended. You can read all about the project highlights in the final blog post of the project’s Community Collections & Outreach Archivist – Sarah Tester here.  One of the main legacies of the project is…