Sharing this again, because someone emailed it to me not realizing that I'm the donor who chatted with Obden's parent in kreyol. (Well ok, I did my best, and they kindly humored me.) https://www.brooklyn.edu/best-of-bc/a-passion-for-the-past/
#Archives #Haiti
Another Masterful Gambit: #DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape #Archives to #Hackable Digital Records
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that the General Services Administration converted 14,000 magnetic to digital records, and claimed the process saved a million dollars a year.
> sounds suspicious to me
https://www.404media.co/doge-gsa-magnetic-tape-archives-digital-storage/
« Ma petite cocotte chérie… » : 700 lettres d’amour d’un couple durant la guerre aux #Archives du #ValdeMarne
Un habitant de Bry-sur-Marne a trouvé chez sa mère décédée, la correspondance amoureuse de ses grands-parents pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
U don « exceptionnel », au titre de sa valeur historique et sentimentale.
https://www.leparisien.fr/val-de-marne-94/ma-petite-cocotte-cherie-700-lettres-damour-dun-couple-durant-la-guerre-aux-archives-du-val-de-marne-11-04-2025-MP7FNDNTWRALTMPVPVK2II54FI.php #2GM #WW2
Unlocking colonial records with Artificial Intelligence. Achieving the automated transcription of large-scale 16th and 17th-century Latin American historical collections https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20548923.2025.2484828 #AI #ComputerVision #archives
Has this data been archived anywhere?
#epa #ghg #greenhousegasemissions #data #datapreservation #archive #archives
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-greenhouse-gas-reporting-climate-crisis
A cool set of ribbons on their own in YIVO's huge RG 123 collection of assorted landsmanshaft and mutual aid society materials.
minimal results on google but it seems to be an old Philadelphia mutual aid society: The First Roumanian Ladies Association Agudath Achiois, which was affiliated with the Federation of Roumanian Jews of Philadelphia.
undated, maybe 1910s-20s?
Washington University in St. Louis: Announcing the Nicky Zann Archive . “The Dowd Illustration Research Archive has acquired the archive of the late artist Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Zann. The acquisition was generously donated by Zann’s life partner and wife, Mary Lou Falcone, who has been caring for the materials since he died in 2020. The donation of Zann’s work adds a subset of modern pieces […]
Architecture is never neutral. In this amazing conversation with architect and curator Mabel O. Wilson, we talk about certain architecture's fundational myths and the unspoken. We talk about whiteness, race, property, land and possesion. We also discuss racial assemblages and infrastructures, as well as colonial archives, silenced histories and reparation.
Le dernier interview de Fréhel, le 29 novembre 1950, avant un tour de chant à la Contrescarpe. Une archive Radio Suisse Romande / RTS.
"mais avec un pauvre rire, j'ai cru lire ohf après tout: on s'en fout..."
#frehel #radio #archives #chanson #paris
https://www.rts.ch/archives/1950/audio/frehel-au-micro-28418294.html
[#veille] Mise en ligne du Dictionnaire biographique des victimes du nazisme en Normandie
https://mrsh.unicaen.fr/dictionnaire-victimes-nazisme-normandie/accueil.html
#archives #histoire #2GM #WW2 #histodons #Normandie #repression #dictionnaire #genealogie @archivistodon
Serving Up #Tennis History with Magazine #Archives and NotebookLM (A New Digital Collection From Google Arts & Culture) https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/international-tennis-hall-of-fame/
Un #JeudiManuscrit en écho à l'atelier de #genealogie la semaine dernière aux #ArchivesDeLyon, où les participants travaillaient sur des sources papier et numérisées.
Ces 2 documents faisaient partie du parcours "Morts pour la France" en suivant Louis Roux, un employé de la Ville de Lyon "disparu depuis le 31 mars 1916 présumé mort".
Cotes 524W/847 et 1576WP/11.
Pour en savoir plus :
https://www.archives-lyon.fr/expos/morts-pour-la-france-morts-pour-la-ville
Pepperdine University: Pepperdine University Libraries to Acquire Prestigious Research Collection from Bob Woodson and the Woodson Center. “Pepperdine University Libraries will be the exclusive home of more than four decades of work by Bob Woodson and the Woodson Center. Led by former civil rights activist Bob Woodson, the Woodson Center has worked for over four decades to empower indigenous […]
« À travers les #témoignages bouleversants de survivants, de journalistes et de responsables politiques, et grâce à l’accès inédit à des #archives déclassifiées en #Israël et au #Liban, #Liban1982RadiographieDUnMassacre reconstitue minutieusement ces événements tragiques. »
#SabraEtChatila #MassacreDeSabraEtChatila #GuerreDuLiban #ForcesLibanaises #Palestiniens #réfugiésPalestiniens #ProcheOrient #documentaire #cinéma @lebanon @palestine @israel @film @histodons
Pourquoi reprendre le montage de la fresque « Howard Zinn, une histoire populaire américaine » ?
Parce qu’en 2025, l’histoire s’efface. Littéralement.
La photo de l’Enola Gay supprimée à cause du mot “Gay”.
Tuskegee Airmen, Navajo Code Talkers,
Les femmes pilotes du WASP effacées.
Black Panthers : rayés des archives.
Un texte sidérant à lire sur lesmutins.org :
https://lesmutins.org/le-retour-de-zinn-donald-trump-et
Salute to this highly specific Jewish mutual aid society from the Bronx in YIVO's "Non Shtetl Addendum" collection of landsmanshaft documents (RG 123)
#science #archives #UK #CulturalHeritage #AlanTuring
"A collection of rare documents by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing have been saved for the nation. Last year, a temporary export bar was placed on the wartime project writings to prevent them being taken abroad. A successful campaign was launched to keep the papers on home soil, which were described by the government as some of Turing's most 'inventive, secret, and overlooked work'."
BBC: Rare Turing papers worth £397k saved from export. “A collection of rare documents by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing have been saved for the nation. Last year, a temporary export bar was placed on the wartime project writings to prevent them being taken abroad. A successful campaign was launched to keep the papers on home soil, which were described by the government as some of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/09/bbc-rare-turing-papers-worth-397k-saved-from-export/
Welcome to my rabbit hole! The Harper and PP show in #YEG the other night surfaced (in my stomach and brain) the “Barbaric Cultural Practices Tip line” campaign promise. The good news is the smart folks at University of Toronto have been archiving “Canadian Political Parties and Interest Groups” since 2005.
#UTL #Archives #Libraries #Harper #poilievre
In other news, I used the Public Record Office Victoria's *open* API to add more than 6 million records about people to the GLAM Name Index Search (in total there's more than 13 million from 10 #GLAM organisations). There's some notes here: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/09/more-than-million-rows-of.html #archives #familyHistory
