How to Plan an Audiovisual Archive Digitization Project That Lasts
Nine steps for preserving tapes, records and oral-history recordings, with a current example from UNESCO's Radio Mogadishu project....
31 October, 2026
African Archives Need More Than Scanners: What UNESCO’s Projects Reveal
A scanner can copy a tape. It can't stop termites. What UNESCO's projects in Somalia, Malawi and Uganda show about lasting archive care....
26 October, 2026
Digital Curation and Preservation for Genealogy
Genealogy research often involves a great deal of digital records and documents. From scanned photographs and old census records to family trees and DNA test results, the amount of information we collect and store digitally can be overwhelming. This is where digital curation and preservation...
11 April, 2023
Preserving Your African American Family History: The Importance of Digitizing Records
As technology advances, it's becoming easier to preserve and share our family history with future generations. For African Americans, digitizing and preserving family records can be especially important in documenting a heritage that has been challenged by slavery, discrimination, and loss of records. One of the...
04 April, 2023