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- Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-archive 46 comments
- Archivists are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/05/british-library-digitising-newspapers-boston-spa 39 comments
- Trump promises to replace national archivist after the agency's role in documents case against him https://apnews.com/article/trump-promises-national-archivist-replaced-documents-case-d202552f8c88e2e8177dfa05a64c5fd5 34 comments politics
- nHentai Archivist, a nhentai.net downloader suitable to save all of your favourite works before they're gone https://github.com/9-FS/nhentai_archivist 26 comments rust
- Citizen Archivist Mission - Community Service Opportunity https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files 3 comments navy
- How Canadian rock star Geddy Lee of Rush became an unlikely archivist of America's pastime https://theathletic.com/5022106/2023/11/06/geddy-lee-rush-baseball-collection/?amp=1 23 comments baseball
- Almost 90 percent of classic games are “critically endangered,” say archivists https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/14/23792586/classic-game-preservation-video-game-history-foundation-esa 131 comments technews
- Archivists Make Sure the Internet Doesn’t Forget Russia’s War on Ukraine https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxd7gn/archivists-make-sure-the-internet-doesnt-forget-russias-war-on-ukraine 40 comments technology
- Ex-National Archivist Thinks Trump Is Hiding His Records to Avoid ‘Prison Time’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-is-hiding-his-january-6-records-to-avoid-prison-time-says-former-national-archivist 3 comments politics
- Second Letter from Dana A. Remus, Counsel to the President, to David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, dated October 8, 2021 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/13/second-letter-from-dana-a-remus-counsel-to-the-president-to-david-ferriero-archivist-of-the-united-states-dated-october-8-2021/ 10 comments politics
- Corporations Are Crappy Archivists https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2017/10/13/ 3 comments webdev
- "Ultimate YouTube-DL Scripts Collection" (previously "YouTube-DL Archivist Scripts") now on Version 3.0.0! https://github.com/thefrenchghosty/thefrenchghostys-ultimate-youtube-dl-scripts-collection/releases 13 comments linux
- Archivists Are Mining Parler Metadata to Pinpoint Crimes at the Capitol https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpevv/archivists-parler-capitol-hill-crimes 39 comments politics
- EPA Destroys Water Quality Records, Deceives Archivist https://www.citizensforethics.org/epa-destroys-water-quality-records-deceives-archivist/ 281 comments politics
- EPA destroys water quality records, deceives archivist https://www.citizensforethics.org/epa-destroys-water-quality-records-deceives-archivist/ 88 comments politics
- [News] 'It’s a Moral Imperative:' Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3v5/archivists-are-bypassing-paywalls-to-share-studies-about-coronaviruses 4 comments worldnews
- 'It’s a Moral Imperative:' Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls. The potentially illegal archive is a 'moral imperative,' said one organizer. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3v5/archivists-are-bypassing-paywalls-to-share-studies-about-coronaviruses 59 comments technology
- 'It’s a Moral Imperative:' Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3v5/archivists-are-bypassing-paywalls-to-share-studies-about-coronaviruses 33 comments worldnews
- Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/verizon-reportedly-blocks-archivists-from-yahoo-groups-days-before-deletion/ 13 comments technews
- Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion - All content on Yahoo Groups since its 2001 launch is disappearing Saturday. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/verizon-reportedly-blocks-archivists-from-yahoo-groups-days-before-deletion/ 4 comments technology
- Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3534j/libraries-and-archivists-are-scanning-and-uploading-books-that-are-secretly-in-the-public-domain 329 comments books
- NASA filmed the preparation and launch of Apollo 11 with 65mm Todd-AO cameras then forgot about it until two years ago a group of archivists and filmmakers found the film reels and scanned them in 4K https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/apollo-11-50th-year-anniversary 24 comments space
- A Kiev archivist discovered "bread" samples from Ukraine's 1932-33 Holodomor in historic criminal records. The church choir conductor who documented them was sent to the gulag for saving the scraps as evidence of the famine. https://www.rferl.org/a/kyiv-archivist-discovers-ersatz-bread-samples-from-ukraine-s-1932-33-famine/29617344.html 32 comments worldnews
- U.S. archivists release Watergate report that could be possible ‘road map’ for Mueller https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-archivists-release-watergate-report-that-could-be-possible-road-map-for-mueller/2018/10/31/841cc938-dbb5-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html 14 comments politics
- U.S. archivists release Watergate report that could be possible ‘road map’ for Mueller https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-archivists-release-watergate-report-that-could-be-possible-road-map-for-mueller/2018/10/31/841cc938-dbb5-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html?utm_term=.d6afa401ea84 7 comments politics
- U.S. archivists release Watergate report that could be possible ‘road map’ for Mueller https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-archivists-release-watergate-report-that-could-be-possible-road-map-for-mueller/2018/10/31/841cc938-dbb5-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html?utm_term=.8eda7aa46d9b 4 comments politics
- U.S. archivists release Watergate report that could be possible ‘road map’ for Mueller https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-archivists-release-watergate-report-that-could-be-possible-road-map-for-mueller/2018/10/31/841cc938-dbb5-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html?utm_term=.6247afc6401c 3 comments politics
- The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists”: Wayback Machine director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/ 463 comments technology
- [crosspost - AMA in r/IAmA] Hi, I'm Catherine McIlwaine, the Tolkien Archivist at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford. AMA! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9hqsou/hi_im_catherine_mcilwaine_the_tolkien_archivist/ 4 comments books
- Archivist rejects Democrats' demand for Kavanaugh documents http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/401583-archivist-rejects-democrats-demand-for-kavanaugh-documents 127 comments politics
- Two Men Allegedly Stole $8 Million Worth of Rare Books, Including Newton’s ‘Principe’. An archivist and an antique bookseller allegedly conspired to steal hundreds of items from the Carnegie Library rare books room. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmkzd/two-men-stole-dollar8-million-worth-of-rare-books-including-newtons-principia 5 comments books
- 'They gave us Scotch Tape': Former White House archivist had to reassemble documents ripped up by Trump http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-394-the-trump-doctrine-nigeria-s-world-cup-kit-the-song-of-the-summer-unaccompanied-minors-more-1.4706807/they-gave-us-scotch-tape-former-white-house-archivist-had-to-reassemble-documents-ripped-up-by-trump-1.4706822 89 comments politics
- Russian museum discovers secret order to destroy Gulag data: Papers reveal that ministers ordered erasure of prisoner files in 2014, say archivists https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/russian-museum-discovers-secret-order-to-destroy-gulag-data 21 comments worldnews
- VHS Tapes: How Archivists Are Working To Save Them http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/03/529155865/videotapes-are-becoming-unwatchable-as-archivists-work-to-save-them 7 comments technology
- Trump's fleeting tweets alarm archivists http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-tweets-archivists-234635 7 comments politics
- Archivists recently found the 1903 Wright Brothers patent for their airplane, after it had been missing for 36 years. https://www.laserfiche.com/simplicity/uh-oh-seen-the-wright-brothers-patent-lately/ 5 comments history
- Archivists unearth rare first edition of the 1815 'Map that Changed the World' http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150323075432.htm 25 comments history
- Internet Archivist Seeks a Copy of Every Book Ever Written http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EVERY_BOOK_WRITTEN?SITE=TXKER&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT 4 comments books
- Despite DNA tests proving skull fragments to be that of a woman, Russian intelligence archivist insists they are Hitler's http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091207/sc_afp/russiausgermanyhistorysciencehitler_20091207200157 4 comments science
- Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-03-06-clinton-library-foia_n.htm 21 comments politics