The carriage houses serves as a multipurpose visitor center and shop. Flexible interior space can be reconfigured for programs & events.
Most important: as far as we know, 1st #Passivhaus reconstruction at a historic site (details: alt text)
#preservation #sustainability
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Last-minute alert! A group I'm in is hosting a talk on Connect to Collect, a network of museums and archives collecting social digital photography. Katrina Hedström of Stockholm County Museum and Bente Jensen of Aalborg City Archives will discuss community engagement, collecting about/during traumatic events, and preserving documentation.
Join us Wed. 5/14 at 4pm BST/11 am EDT/8 am PDT on Zoom!
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/EwOAQQVoT9yWrz_kdXwpeQ#/registration
In other #history news.
> Crates full of Nazi documents found in Argentine court's basement https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w3jlqlp27o
posted this on Bluesk but it's very useful so posting it here as well,
Archivist's Pro Tip: The Internet Archive exposes a few of the original HTTP headers from the source server, including "Last-Modified", if you're ever trying to pinpoint down the exact date a change was made to a website but the archive doesn't have a capture from that specific date
2, This is, if I'm not mistaken, one of the historic buildings that is discussed in the article (note intersection of Tuna St. and Cannery St.). My snapshots. They're in B&W in the book
It's David Attenborough's 99th birthday, and it was a pleasure to see "Ocean with David Attenborough" at the cinema this evening. It managed to be both very beautiful, extremely brutal (showing trawling up-close), and positive and optimistic.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33022710/
DavidAttenborough #OceanWithDavidAttenborough #Ocean #preservation #nature #film #cinemateket
The #Trump admin has earmarked dozens of #NationalPark Service [#NPS] #grants for elimination, including several that aim to protect #PublicLands from the effects of #ClimateChange, acc/to an internal agency document detailing the plans.
A spreadsheet of grants likely to be canceled claims the cuts could *save* $26 million by canceling grants to #universities, state #historic #preservation offices, #tribes & #YouthCorps.
#Science #ClimateCrisis #Musk #DOGE
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/climate/trump-park-service-grants-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=95AB81FC-B895-41F9-84B1-1D58443EA184
Die bislang verschollenen deutschen Originaldisketten von Microsoft Windows/386 2.11 haben nun endlich ihren Weg ins Internet Archive gefunden. Insgesamt 7 x 720K DD Disketten. Ursprüngliche Veröffentlichung im Mai 1989!
Perfekte KryoFlux Streams und .IMG Disk Images sowie saubere Scans aller Datenträger in 300dpi findet ihr ab sofort hier zum Download:
Update. "Because of #Trump: [The German] Central Library of #Medicine builds alternative to US database."
https://www.heise.de/news/Wegen-Trump-Zentralbibliothek-Medizin-baut-Alternative-zu-US-Datenbank-auf-10372291.html
From Google's English: "The German National Library of Medicine (#ZBMed) has announced its intention to create an "open, reliable, and sustainable alternative" to the #PubMed database, one of the most important and comprehensive resources for biomedical literature worldwide. The meta-database, with references to relevant articles and over 38 million citations, is operated by the National Library of Medicine (#NLM), a division of the National Institutes of Health (#NIH) in the United States. ZB Med is responding to concerns that the US administration under Donald Trump is cutting funding for the NIH. There are also fears that political influences could compromise PubMed's scientific integrity."
These bundles of tying tape from HM Stationery Office are detrius from a current, long conservation stabilisation project.
I'm always a bit sad to throw them away as I suspect a fabulously creative person would make something amazing from the durable material.
Happy to pop in the post.
La #Game Preservation Society en difficulté : "We Might Be About To Lose A Powerful Force In The World Of #VideoGame #Preservation" : https://www.timeextension.com/features/we-might-be-about-to-lose-a-powerful-force-in-the-world-of-video-game-preservation #GPS #Japan #GamePreservation #MediaPreservation #Jeuxvideo
If you care about game preservation this non-profit organization that works on preserving games in Japan really needs money.
Website: https://www.gamepres.org/en/
Testing an overnight HVAC shutdown pilot project during the winter months in the circulating collections. (Duke - Preservation Underground Blog) #PreservationWeek #Preservation #libraries
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2024/05/03/preservation-week-whats-in-your-disaster-supply-closet/
Update. Kudos to the Northwestern University Libraries for training people to take part in the #DataRescueProject. Other #libraries should follow suit.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/24/lateststories/nu-libraries-data-rescue-project-host-training-to-preserve-disappearing-federal-data/
@ai6yr "One of our major goals in restoring Clayborn Temple has always been to bring due attention to the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, a chapter in American history too often overlooked and largely forgotten" https://wreg.com/news/clayborn-temple-designated-a-national-treasure/ #preservation
Update. "Scientist Who Helped Prove Humans Changed the Climate Watches Evidence Being Erased"
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/scientist-who-helped-prove-humans-changed-the-climate-watches-evidence-being-erased/
"Ben Santer never imagined that 12 words could change the trajectory of his life and humanity’s understanding of what it was doing to the planet: 'The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.' He wrote that sentence as the lead author of a pivotal chapter in the 1995 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [#IPCC]…Now the #data sources that made that discovery possible are under threat… 'There’s real concern that the data may go away, that the satellites, measurements that have been collected for 40 plus years, may not continue.'"
Update. "ERICA is a rescue catalog which preserves over 500,000 Open Access publications originally hosted by the US Department of Education in the #ERIC research repository. ERIC was defunded on the 23 April 2025 and the maintenance contract is set to expire soon, meaning that ERIC is likely to shut down. The PDFs were rescued using the Internet Archive's #WaybackMachine by a volunteer of the #DataRescueProject. When you click on one of the publication ID links, you will be redirected to the archived PDF in the the Wayback Machine. Feel free to host your own copy of ERICA by simply cloning this source code repo, which also includes the metadata for the catalog."
https://erica.datarescueproject.org/
Update from Lisa Schiff (@lschiff), "Protecting your work – and your values – in US higher education."
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/protecting-your-work-and-your-values-us-higher-education
"With US higher education under attack from the federal government, what can scholars do to ensure their research is preserved and to stand up for academic freedom? Lisa Schiff, a co-author of the Declaration to Defend Research."
#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Update from Gary Price (@infodocket). "Accessing Archived Material From #ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) via the #InternetArchive."
https://www.infodocket.com/2025/04/23/accessing-archived-material-from-eric-via-the-internet-archive/
"Here are a couple ways to access archived material from ERIC on the open web. We will do our best to keep this post updated if/when new open web sources become available to access ERIC material."
