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Sometimes it seems like the digital world is turning us all into virtual hoarders. As storage costs go down, it becomes easier to pile our binary creations into a digital attic, never looking back. -
Imagine a world with unlimited access to any and all kinds of information. There’d be no barriers to learning. Books, music, video, software and other media would be freely available to everyone. Brewster Kahle dreams about creating such a world. -
In the digital media world, there’s no guarantee that material that appears one minute will be there the next. -
The next Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Online News forum will be held Nov. 15-16 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. -
This white paper summarizes the Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving online news event, with overviews of the panels and presentations, and projects produced by groups at the conference as well as student scholarship recipients. -
A panel discussion on the modernizing of The New York Times archive with Evan Sandhaus, Jane Cotler and Sophia Van Valkenburg. -
Story archives separate an established news organization from a new competitor. They provide an essential, unmatched historical record for communities. They are a mostly untapped potential source of revenue and reader engagement. -
The next Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Online News forum will be held Nov. 15-16 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Your participation in DTMH 2017 will advance the exchange of knowledge of digital preservation. -
Edward McCain is the digital curator of journalism at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and the University of Missouri Libraries. Ginny Steel is a university librarian at UCLA. -
There are a number of practical steps publishers at news agencies can do to lay the groundwork for preserving our historical record.
Donald W. Reynolds