If you were on Facebook in January 2012, there is a chance that it tried to make you sad. If you were on OkCupid, there is a chance that it tried to match you u

Unpowered SSDs lose data FAST.

IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) announced recently that it is funding a $2 million grant for three partners (Digital Public Library of America, Stanford University, and DuraSpace) to develop repository solutions, hosting strategies, and methods for the exchange of information for digital library collections. The project will give libraries, museums, and archives of all types and sizes an out-of-the-box open source solution for managing their digital content and exposing what they have to the world. It will build on the work many academic libraries have done to create institutional repositories for their own organizations.

It was the mid-’90s, and to many people, video games were synonymous with derivatives of Doom and Quake. "Zip through the aisles at the local computer store and the mayhem mounts quickly," The New...

Old, but impressively comprehensive. GREAT if you're dealing with obsolete analog equipment.

If you ask Anthony Weiner, digital records—especially those on the Internet—can seem impossibly hard to get rid of. When a picture…

The Entertainment Software Association doesn’t want anyone to restore the functionality of older videogames that are no longer supported by their publisher, because, says ESA, this is “hacking,” and

LIPA saves legal information. We advocate, initiate, and support preservation and archival projects related to the law and legal resources. Our members are law libraries across the United States and Canada who are committed to preserving our legal legacy.

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Case study of being herded to cloud storage and having IT totally disregard needs.

Getting started with born-digital archives is a complex task. The technical skills needed to preserve punched cards, magnetic tape, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, Zip drives, hard drives, and other digital media are often daunting. Cooperative library research provided the UCLA Library and other institutions with a way to break down the challenge into more easily manageable activities.

In the future, will platforms own our pasts?

module 3 for hist3907b. Contribute to hist3907b-winter2015/module3-wranglingdata development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pretty much all the things that could go wrong did.