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World Digital Preservation Day Twitter Chat – 29 November, 12-2pm
We’re running a Twitter chat for this year’s World Digital Preservation Day on Thursday 29th November between 12 and 2pm (GMT). The chat will use the hashtag #WDPDhistory. Find us on Twitter @dhiptweets. We’ll be talking about the importance of Digital Preservation for the study of the past. What does digital preservation look like to historians, archivists and other historical researchers? How does…
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Towards a Google of Archives – Archives Portal Europe
By Dr Marta Musso (@martamusso) For Historical Archives, investing in digitisation is an extremely expensive, time consuming, and complex endeavour. It is well worth the effort, but it is fundamental to implement all the opportunities that digital technologies offer to archives. Since the beginning of the millennium, archives and cultural heritage institutions have started to…
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The Book of Nunnaminster as Digital Reproduction and Material Object
by Kate R. Falardeau (@kate_falardeau) In March 2020, I was preparing to visit the British Library to examine the Book of Nunnaminster (London, British Library, MS Harley 2965) for my MPhil dissertation when the first Covid-19 lockdown began.[1] I’ll be honest— during those first few weeks of lockdown, the accessibility of research material for my…
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…and a Merry Christmas to all!
We made it at last – Advent is done! Christmas, as with so many ancient festivals, is a time of renewal — to celebrate the year gone by and welcome the next. As the Winter Solstice comes and goes, the days lengthen again, and DHP slowly rejuvenates for the New Year! Doing History in Public…
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